> If you have to choose between two bad options, you might choose the one that's less immediately bad or less guaranteed bad or less severely bad, even knowing that the alternative is future-bad, maybe-bad or slightly-bad.
No candidate will ever match your views 100%, but which gets your vote shows your priorities.
I've convinced that there are many people that vote Republican even though they openly campaign on removing the social security and Medicare that they need to survive because they want to stick it to the LGBTQIA+ that they're disgusted by.
I personally know someone that is left by nearly every single measure. Wants medicare for all, higher minimum wage, higher taxes on the rich, reduced military spending, I could go on. But he voted Trump in 2016 because he absolutely hated the Social Justice Warriors on Tumblr that made everything a contest over who could be the most offended by the smallest thing. He was anti-woke before "woke" was even in the lexicon.
In a similar vein, the "socially liberal, but fiscally conservative" types that vote Republican are essentially sending the message that a tax cut for them is more important than minority issues. It's the ultimate "Fuck you, I got mine".
No candidate will ever match your views 100%, but which gets your vote shows your priorities.
I've convinced that there are many people that vote Republican even though they openly campaign on removing the social security and Medicare that they need to survive because they want to stick it to the LGBTQIA+ that they're disgusted by.
I personally know someone that is left by nearly every single measure. Wants medicare for all, higher minimum wage, higher taxes on the rich, reduced military spending, I could go on. But he voted Trump in 2016 because he absolutely hated the Social Justice Warriors on Tumblr that made everything a contest over who could be the most offended by the smallest thing. He was anti-woke before "woke" was even in the lexicon.
In a similar vein, the "socially liberal, but fiscally conservative" types that vote Republican are essentially sending the message that a tax cut for them is more important than minority issues. It's the ultimate "Fuck you, I got mine".