These people reacting to folks posting their Jill Stein votes with, “I will never understand people like you.” They really don’t understand, and the reason for that is simple: Democrats and their voting base are much, much closer to Republicans (Trump/MAGA included) in worldview and general ideological orientation than they are to the left.
They accept capitalism and its increasingly absurd and pulverizing inequalities; they accept the ideologies underpinning empire, and they do believe that the U.S. should run the world; they accept the policing and prison systems, and thus white supremacy and prison slavery; they accept the military-industrial complex and the control of criminal war profiteers over U.S. foreign policy; they accept “escalate to deescalate” and brinksmanship on nuclear war; they accept highly mediated representation and electoralism instead of real political participation and democracy; they accept stealing labor and resources from the global South; they accept trashing the land, water, and air and doubling down on fossil fuels; they accept the censorship, harassment, and even murder of political dissidents and whistleblowers.
One could go on forever (please add anything you think of below!). Republicans and Democrats represent slight variations on a fundamentally authoritarian and exploitative worldview. Harris voters really can’t understand people on the left—they have very different values and beliefs.
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