I’ve wanted to do an effort post on this but I’m both unsure of where to put it and not sure I have enough coherent thoughts to justify it. But to me it comes off like a lot of the people you’re describing are either young (grew up under the prosperity and social acceptance of the Obama admin) or have never lived in a conservative area. They have no real metric for what trying to get the vote out and get people registered is actually like in an area where you’re up against a Good Ol’ Boy network that goes back over a century and hamstrung at every corner by gerrymandering, regressive laws, and sometimes the actual state government just straight up overturning whatever you voted into law.
I can only hope it’s that they are deeply ignorant of the realities of it, because the alternative is that they swallow the just world fallacy hook, line, and sinker; ‘my state isn’t Republican because we’re morally superior, their state is Republican because they’re inferior and deserve what happens to them.’
And because of having never had to confront or fight the way these Republicans are now operating at the national level, they have no idea how to deal with it. They have never had to, on a social and political level, hunker down and endure. They have no idea how to deal with despair and grief or to find joy and calm when everything sucks. And if you stay like that for too long, it will kill you.
I’ve wanted to do an effort post on this but I’m both unsure of where to put it and not sure I have enough coherent thoughts to justify it. But to me it comes off like a lot of the people you’re describing are either young (grew up under the prosperity and social acceptance of the Obama admin) or have never lived in a conservative area. They have no real metric for what trying to get the vote out and get people registered is actually like in an area where you’re up against a Good Ol’ Boy network that goes back over a century and hamstrung at every corner by gerrymandering, regressive laws, and sometimes the actual state government just straight up overturning whatever you voted into law.
I can only hope it’s that they are deeply ignorant of the realities of it, because the alternative is that they swallow the just world fallacy hook, line, and sinker; ‘my state isn’t Republican because we’re morally superior, their state is Republican because they’re inferior and deserve what happens to them.’
And because of having never had to confront or fight the way these Republicans are now operating at the national level, they have no idea how to deal with it. They have never had to, on a social and political level, hunker down and endure. They have no idea how to deal with despair and grief or to find joy and calm when everything sucks. And if you stay like that for too long, it will kill you.