It's a situation that I have been expecting for a while, but I wasn't fully ready to accept it. Specifically it's one of my LGBTQ friends who honestly believes in the democrats will protect them and their partner. I have tried to make the point that both parties are eroding any sort of civility towards all marginalized groups, but fear seems to drive them more than logical observations. They make the excuse that change doesn't happen over night and that the left continues to grow and will have meaningful affects down the road. I fundamentally just don't agree with that idea and vocalize it regularly. More and more it is ending up in a circular argument where I am painted as unrealistic and my rhetoric (leftist rhetoric) is doing more harm than good because it promotes distrust in the only system we have to work with. I try to tell them it's kind of the whole point. We gotta start somewhere if we want to see a better, more representative system, but they are so hung up on the immediate future while simultaneously saying that my idealistic feelings are shortsighted and I cant expect change in the immediate future... The double-talk is wild, I know.
I am trying my hardest to stop from engaging at this point because on the most basic level we agree on a lot of stuff, but they are just way to wrapped up in the fear mongering of the democratic party. They know that the two party system is broken, they know that something drastic needs to change, but they also think that they are powerless to do anything except choose the lesser evil. It pains me because I am watching them do the same shit past generations have done, where they give up on their ideals for the sake of preserving the current status quo that they benefit from. I am legitimately watching them imply "fuck you, got mine" under the guise of civic duty and I hate it. I want nothing more than to be able to finally say "I told you so" without being a smug asshole about it and ruining our friendship.
Thanks for reading my rant. It's probably a bit disjointed, but the frustration is boiling over and I needed to vent to the only group of people that seems to understand the hopelessness of being a disenfranchised leftist.
If you actually cared you'd spend the freetime you have to volunteer for a cause, the dems need people so go do something for them, since you care so much lmao. This isn't for anyone, you're doing this for you, because your brain gives you sweet sweet serotonine when you argue with strangers online
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And here you are, yet again being accidentally misogynist! REgon very well might not be a man, but you sure have assumed they are!
My worry that you haven't learned anything after being called out on your misogyny seems well-founded. Well, at least I tried, I guess.
Thank you <3
Your parents failed in raising you.
Also you don't hold the caps key you fucking idiot and I'm not the one doing a holier than thou act trying to behave as if this is anything other than a pointless online argument.
You are by far the dumbest person who has wondered in here thinking their farts smelled like roses. Please take just two additional seconds to think before you respond, it would do you some good. Toughness is something you decide to infer, instead of what most people read from capital letters, which is yelling or manic energy. The fact you find that to signify "tough" probably had something to do with you having the mentality of a toddler. Fuck your mother and your father.
You can phone bank from home, you can help with emails from home, you can work extra hours and donate the money, you can volunteer for a good cause in your own country. You really are a pathetic cretin. The world would be a better place if you weren't in it