"This is why voting is a shared, communicative activity." Damn straight. You don't vote for YOU, you vote for US. Changing that shared responsibility into a personal consumer-style choice is a mistake that generally shocks me.

I'm genuinely getting a feeling of unreality gathering around my head the more people talk about this election. "Demand your candidates move further left by not voting for them." Like, yeah, in theory. In practice, it means they can effectively ignore you. You've removed yourself from the equation.

This is accurate. I’m a white attorney. You think I experience even one negative consequence from a Trump presidency? But I’m out here doing what I can to make him lose.

I started noticing it during the 2000 election. It was pretty bad in 2016. You would think after the horror show of Trump's Presidency and the clear contrasts between that and Biden's Presidency people would have learned. Some apparently have not.