Angelyn
Female
It’s funny how I didn’t mean to post this here originally. But since I don’t want to post my views on a forum where my identity is actually known...
Just so ironic. To go to a sex site to talk politics. This reminds me of my failed meetups with men. Instead of having good sex, I wind up talking about whatever’s on my mind.
Seems as though when a nerd male professor talks brainy stuff in bed, young women like that. But young men don’t exactly take well to female nerds doing the same in bed.
I digress.
I’m going to voice something that I have felt for a long time, but wasn’t really free to discuss openly.
In the past few years, I have really started to hate and despise the Donkey Party. Even though my entire identity is favorably positioned to be their supporter.
I don’t vote for elephants. I have never voted for the elephants. But try telling this to one of Dem Asses. Dem Asses are never going to believe it, if you previously voiced any criticism of their party. Instead they will keep calling you names. One of which I am particularly sensitive about, given my personal identity: Russian Troll.
I read the NYT most. Followed by the Huffington Post (just because its content is readily available online).
I don’t follow Faux News. A lot of Elephant Supporters tend to make a beeline for Faux News, and it just doesn’t go down well with someone like me who is academically inclined. Faux News is a big disappointment to me, because I really want to see good quality conservative content balance off the increasingly extreme left wing tilt of the NYT. Regrettably the only good conservative stuff is found nowadays in the WSJ, which I don’t enjoy because it’s too corporatist and money minded.
So I basically read what the liberals read, and don’t read what the conservatives read.
I am moderately friendly to the libertarians without being committed to their thinking, because I find Ayn Rand’s philosophy a bit too selfish. I didn’t support Gary Johnson although I didn’t hate him either.
As I’ve said before, I voted for Jill Stein last election. I like the Greens most.
As a 1) woman 2) not Christian 3) descendant of recent immigrants 4) having mixed racial origins and clearly not WASP 5) not rich 6) academically inclined rather than business oriented, I see absolutely no reason to vote for elephants. Elephants do not represent me or my interests. It isn’t hard to figure that one out.
I don’t even have many real life contacts with Elephants. If you don’t go to church, if you don’t have a country club membership, if you don’t have a hobby or profession that involves using guns, if you aren’t working for a big corporation and if you don’t live in a rural area – you won’t be coming across too many Elephants. I really don’t have much to do with them at all.
Yet again and again I am insulted and criticized for supporting Elephants. I can say ten times over that I don’t vote Republican and find no reason to vote Republican, and I’m still attacked and belittled and mocked for ‘being a Republican’.
I started out preferring a third party. Isn’t that democracy? Don’t I have the right to support whatever causes and parties that I feel represent my interests more?
I have found that Republicans and conservatives generally don’t attack me for going third party. I think they already know, from my gender, from my race, from my income level, from my lack of religion, from my job, that I cannot possibly gain anything from being a Republican. They accept me to the extent that they can possibly accept someone who doesn’t go to the same church, the same country club, the same corporation, as them. I don’t expect the Elephants to ever do anything for me, and I am not disappointed.
Elephants are basically white males with money and whoever aspires to be like them. That’s why I am not angry at black or Hispanic people who vote Republican. They want a very traditional, male dominated world of country clubs, low taxes and private (often family run) businesses with wives that wear skirts and play hostess in their suburban homes. I don’t like this world, but it isn’t hell on earth. It has its own logic that works.
You want to know what logic doesn’t work, try living in a communist country. Given a choice between being a Stepford Wife and being a Comrade lining up for potatoes, I’ll swallow my pride (and probably a lot of nasty tasting sperm) and stick with being a Stepford wife. I’m at this stage in my life where I realize all the freedom and women’s rights in the world hasn’t made me a rich and comfortable woman. I’m really quite rootless and identity-less and restless.
When I talk with Elephants, I notice that they tend to be fairly tolerant of third parties on their political spectrum. When someone brings up Ron Paul, the other conservatives don’t start ranting and spitting fire. They’re usually quite happy to discuss libertarianism.
Dem Ass supporters were better ten years ago. But now they don’t seem to have any tolerance for third parties that lean left. NY State’s Asses are now trying to do their version of voter suppression, which is to deny third parties an opportunity to get on the ballot. If I’m sitting among a bunch of Ass voters, there’s no way I can say nice things about Nader or Stein. It gets really emotional and hostile. Asses tend to be smart people; I know that because so many of Dem Asses are my colleagues and other professional academics. But Asses can’t figure out that very basic, uncontested logic that because I vote in a Blue state, going for Nader or Stein really won’t change things.
I don’t understand why the Asses hate third parties so much. Gary Johnson got 3% and Jill Stein got 1% of the last vote. Gary Johnson would have gotten his votes from other rightwing and conservative leaning people, so he must have taken from Trump. Jill Stein and the Greens take their votes from left leaning people, so they took from people who could potentially vote for Hillary Clinton. But if the Libertarians and the Greens didn’t field candidates and voting was mandatory, people who voted for Johnson would have held their noses and given Trump 49.4%. Whereas I would have held my nose and voted for Clinton, giving her 49.3%. Clinton would have lost the popular vote, and also lost the electoral college.
At least, that is what would have happened in 2016.
Thanks to what happened in the past three years, I’m really alienated from the Ass Party now. These folks seem to think that they deserve my vote, and that if I don’t vote for them I am a Trumpet, I am brainless, I am racist, I am a corporate shill or a Russian mole. Their sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure by now that at the next election, Dem Asses are going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again. There’s no way I can vote for Trump, and I’m pretty sure 60% of the country feels the same. But the Asses aren’t trying to come up with someone whom the 60% can vote for. Instead they just pander to marginal and extreme left voters, whom most of the 60% are definitely not that comfortable voting for.
In the end the Donkey Candidate will not gain the support of third party voters like me. I will happily go Green again, knowing full well that it won’t change the electoral college’s math. People in purple states are going to have a harder decision to make.
Just so ironic. To go to a sex site to talk politics. This reminds me of my failed meetups with men. Instead of having good sex, I wind up talking about whatever’s on my mind.
Seems as though when a nerd male professor talks brainy stuff in bed, young women like that. But young men don’t exactly take well to female nerds doing the same in bed.
I digress.
I’m going to voice something that I have felt for a long time, but wasn’t really free to discuss openly.
In the past few years, I have really started to hate and despise the Donkey Party. Even though my entire identity is favorably positioned to be their supporter.
I don’t vote for elephants. I have never voted for the elephants. But try telling this to one of Dem Asses. Dem Asses are never going to believe it, if you previously voiced any criticism of their party. Instead they will keep calling you names. One of which I am particularly sensitive about, given my personal identity: Russian Troll.
I read the NYT most. Followed by the Huffington Post (just because its content is readily available online).
I don’t follow Faux News. A lot of Elephant Supporters tend to make a beeline for Faux News, and it just doesn’t go down well with someone like me who is academically inclined. Faux News is a big disappointment to me, because I really want to see good quality conservative content balance off the increasingly extreme left wing tilt of the NYT. Regrettably the only good conservative stuff is found nowadays in the WSJ, which I don’t enjoy because it’s too corporatist and money minded.
So I basically read what the liberals read, and don’t read what the conservatives read.
I am moderately friendly to the libertarians without being committed to their thinking, because I find Ayn Rand’s philosophy a bit too selfish. I didn’t support Gary Johnson although I didn’t hate him either.
As I’ve said before, I voted for Jill Stein last election. I like the Greens most.
As a 1) woman 2) not Christian 3) descendant of recent immigrants 4) having mixed racial origins and clearly not WASP 5) not rich 6) academically inclined rather than business oriented, I see absolutely no reason to vote for elephants. Elephants do not represent me or my interests. It isn’t hard to figure that one out.
I don’t even have many real life contacts with Elephants. If you don’t go to church, if you don’t have a country club membership, if you don’t have a hobby or profession that involves using guns, if you aren’t working for a big corporation and if you don’t live in a rural area – you won’t be coming across too many Elephants. I really don’t have much to do with them at all.
Yet again and again I am insulted and criticized for supporting Elephants. I can say ten times over that I don’t vote Republican and find no reason to vote Republican, and I’m still attacked and belittled and mocked for ‘being a Republican’.
I started out preferring a third party. Isn’t that democracy? Don’t I have the right to support whatever causes and parties that I feel represent my interests more?
I have found that Republicans and conservatives generally don’t attack me for going third party. I think they already know, from my gender, from my race, from my income level, from my lack of religion, from my job, that I cannot possibly gain anything from being a Republican. They accept me to the extent that they can possibly accept someone who doesn’t go to the same church, the same country club, the same corporation, as them. I don’t expect the Elephants to ever do anything for me, and I am not disappointed.
Elephants are basically white males with money and whoever aspires to be like them. That’s why I am not angry at black or Hispanic people who vote Republican. They want a very traditional, male dominated world of country clubs, low taxes and private (often family run) businesses with wives that wear skirts and play hostess in their suburban homes. I don’t like this world, but it isn’t hell on earth. It has its own logic that works.
You want to know what logic doesn’t work, try living in a communist country. Given a choice between being a Stepford Wife and being a Comrade lining up for potatoes, I’ll swallow my pride (and probably a lot of nasty tasting sperm) and stick with being a Stepford wife. I’m at this stage in my life where I realize all the freedom and women’s rights in the world hasn’t made me a rich and comfortable woman. I’m really quite rootless and identity-less and restless.
When I talk with Elephants, I notice that they tend to be fairly tolerant of third parties on their political spectrum. When someone brings up Ron Paul, the other conservatives don’t start ranting and spitting fire. They’re usually quite happy to discuss libertarianism.
Dem Ass supporters were better ten years ago. But now they don’t seem to have any tolerance for third parties that lean left. NY State’s Asses are now trying to do their version of voter suppression, which is to deny third parties an opportunity to get on the ballot. If I’m sitting among a bunch of Ass voters, there’s no way I can say nice things about Nader or Stein. It gets really emotional and hostile. Asses tend to be smart people; I know that because so many of Dem Asses are my colleagues and other professional academics. But Asses can’t figure out that very basic, uncontested logic that because I vote in a Blue state, going for Nader or Stein really won’t change things.
I don’t understand why the Asses hate third parties so much. Gary Johnson got 3% and Jill Stein got 1% of the last vote. Gary Johnson would have gotten his votes from other rightwing and conservative leaning people, so he must have taken from Trump. Jill Stein and the Greens take their votes from left leaning people, so they took from people who could potentially vote for Hillary Clinton. But if the Libertarians and the Greens didn’t field candidates and voting was mandatory, people who voted for Johnson would have held their noses and given Trump 49.4%. Whereas I would have held my nose and voted for Clinton, giving her 49.3%. Clinton would have lost the popular vote, and also lost the electoral college.
At least, that is what would have happened in 2016.
Thanks to what happened in the past three years, I’m really alienated from the Ass Party now. These folks seem to think that they deserve my vote, and that if I don’t vote for them I am a Trumpet, I am brainless, I am racist, I am a corporate shill or a Russian mole. Their sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure by now that at the next election, Dem Asses are going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again. There’s no way I can vote for Trump, and I’m pretty sure 60% of the country feels the same. But the Asses aren’t trying to come up with someone whom the 60% can vote for. Instead they just pander to marginal and extreme left voters, whom most of the 60% are definitely not that comfortable voting for.
In the end the Donkey Candidate will not gain the support of third party voters like me. I will happily go Green again, knowing full well that it won’t change the electoral college’s math. People in purple states are going to have a harder decision to make.
