I ain't young, but this is my first election where I am a real lefty, and... Has it always been this bad?
The liberal seething is just disgusting right now. You can't be on any place of the internet that has any discussion about politics whatsoever.
If you suggest that the Democrats should be better, then you get called out for trying to make Trump president
If you respond that now is the time to actually put pressure on candidates because they're running for office and in any fucking reasonable place, this is where they would make campaign promises and you can demand stuff out of them, then they say that you're being a fascist.
The liberal propaganda is just mind numbing.
Even the traditionally leftist places on Reddit (a place I visit very infrequently, so small changes add up over time when I visit and see the crazies have come out of the woodworks) are getting inundated with a bunch of "but the GOP is worse", and "we have to compromise" and blah blah blah. Even in some commie spaces.
Like I understand not being a doomer, and trying to actually make things better in the meantime while we build forces for the revolution, but holy shit, it's like Anyone to the right of Marxist Leninists have immediately caved to pressure.
US politics has been a shitshow since as long as I can remember or have ever read about. Other countries have their own weirdness with politics, too.
To avoid feeling too negative, I try to keep a few things in mind. First, shit was way fucked up in the past, too. So don't panic, because you're not the first person in this position. Second, many people love to polarize things. Us vs. them. My way or the highway. You're either with us or against us... And it's hard for the pro-polarization folk to realize that their perspective is a shallow one, that they're getting played because of it. They really don't wanna have to learn more, to use their brains. Careful thinking is so irritating... And you and I can't fix that. We just have to live with it, work around it.
I'm gonna keep in mind what you and others have said that this is nothing new and I don't have to panic. At least I know this wave will pass like every other.
It sucks though. I feel unironically red-pilled. Just a different perspective on things and it's weird.
I used to have such strong positive feelings for Democrats and such strong negative feelings for Republicans and I remember literally feeling back in the day that I could not imagine feeling any differently. Now I hate them both (for sifferent reasons) and that's just a weird feeling.