This isn't it. I was raised conservative in a red state. People are aware of the Nazis, they can explain how to use critical thinking and why critical thinking is important, and they even have awareness that racism and oppression by wealthy elites of politically powerless poor folk is a problem. How can they reach conclusions that disregard everything I just mentioned? The same way that many lawyers and professors become right-wing despite their education and fact-finding skills.

They have faith that the ideas they have based their worldview on are correct and work backwards from that conclusion. Whatever their motivation for uncritical belief of some fundamental premise doesn't matter because their whole ego and sense of self is tied up with those concepts being true. They don't have political conversations, just opportunities to re-assert some cliche perhaps dressed up by some poetic philosophical language so that other who happen to identify with those beliefs will know that they're on the correct side. Cognitive dissonance is so pronounced they would almost always avoid it entirely rather than work through it at a certain point. Some I've spoken to are aware that their philosophy is full of contradictions, so their defense is to consider it normal to have contradictory beliefsand demonstrate this by pointing them out from other partisan hacks. They didn't reason themselves into their beliefs, reason is only to find a credible way their beliefs are correct.

Put AOC up there tomorrow and she will win.

Keep Biden up there and he will lose.

Just shows how the voice and the vote of the people doesn't matter.

The Party does what The Party does.

Indeed. Need to vote all democrat down the ticket (hopefully with good choices in primaries) for the moment to preserve American democracy and freedom. Once the current fascist/authoritarian push is in the rear view mirror, then we can work on better choices.

This is Biden's last chance at a second term, he will not try again if he loses to Trump. Trump on the other hand will probably keep trying until he is dead, in prison, or his health in old age drags him down; Here's hoping Biden wins this one, and by 2028 Trump's health will be in decline/prevent him from running.

The problem is, we're rapidly approaching the final consequences of the "lesser of two evils" and "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" strategy.

There is no more kicking the can down the road. The far-right's most insidious poison, "centrism", has run its course to basically every part of our nation's body over the last forty years and our institutions are too weak to properly repel fascism.

Biden has lost the support of huge swaths of Arab Americans in key swing states. His polling has been abysmally low for a while, but his funding of genocide might be the final straw that effectively plunges us into permanent fascism.

Thanks for saying it so clearly.

People would rather vote for the slow death of America than the fast death of America.

People. You don't need to vote for the death of America. You have that choice.

They conditioned you to think you must support evil.

We can still show that we don't support evil.