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I've considered voting Republican for the first time in my life, out of a desire to send a signal to the Democrats, the left, and the PMC class about how abhorrent I find their attitudes and ideas of the past ~10 years. But I know in my gut – that seat of common sense – that they wouldn't understand the message.

I believe that the new elite worldview offers martyrdom as one of its features; these people get something out of clutching their pearls and screeching about how much the populace is against them, how racist we are, how sexist, how selfish and transphobic we are. As a voter, I feel in a double bind here: I can't in good conscience vote blue because I don't want to support this worldview, but the PMC have contrived it in such a way that voting against them *also* reinforces their worldview. And there's no hope from the Republicans – they don't have ideas either. (Their platform is mostly to repeal, ban, or outlaw things. I don't see them actually building anything.) I feel like there's nothing I can do.

I guarantee you that the PMC/NYTimes/cable news messaging calling Americans a racist white supremacist society will increase in rate and stridency in the wake of the midterms.

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Thomas Edwin Woodhouse's avatar

Incisive analysis.

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