One thing older voters know firsthand is that elections in which you vote for someone you truly believe in are much rarer than elections in which you vote for the better of two outcomes. Another thing they know: You own a share of the result no matter what. Not voting doesn't give you clean hands.
this isn't going to mean very much but I very much respect the fact that you and Tony lived through Reagan et al and were not conditioned to want this continent burned to the ground as a result. maybe I haven't earned the right to my bleakness - I sure wish I could leave it aside somewhere.
one thing older voters know firsthand is how to lecture other people for wanting more than the shitty world they built
As an older voter I never expected perfection but there is also a line. There are lines .
one thing that older voters sure know how to do is blame other people for their failure to articulate a future people want to live in. don't look in the mirror too hard, you might see your own culpability.
wild how quickly we forgot how Bush won solely by a few hundred votes in one state (with a little help from the Supreme Court) and look how that turned out
One thing older voters know firsthand is to nominate the worst candidates and shove them down younger voters' throats.
Yeah, it does, actually. Fuck genocide, & fuck everyone who votes for it.
This'll be my 10th presidential election to vote in, and there's never been a candidate I liked, respected, or trusted. I just vote against the one I'd most like to see fall into a woodchipper.
I was trying to explain this exact thing to my 18 yr old daughter. If you’re progressive, you almost never get to vote for a presidential candidate you actually like in the general. Obama was probably the only one I felt enthusiastic about.