When I wrote Hurr Durr maybe the reason my generation doesn’t vote is you don’t give us the candidates we want I got a reply along the lines of the diarist at least voted for Hillary but he was talking about trying to convince others to vote for her.
That’s exactly it. I voted for her. but I didn’t canvas and make phone calls for the campaign largely because Hillary clintons name ID was so high and everyone knows who she is and already has an opinion about her so it would mean inadvertantly calling her adversaries and getting cussed out and I didn’t want to put myself through it. I feel like that particular expectation is kind of like the Democratic party asking me to store dead bodies in my house until they can find some way to “properly” dispose of them so that the authorities do not discover them.
I’m sorry but I just couldn’t stomach asking my personal friends to vote for her.
And you know what? The devil of it is that my diary was not an implicit f- you to the democrats who voted for her or anything it was my way of expressing frustration at a huge segment of the Democrats who have essentially chosen to Think of everyone who got fed up at the primary and felt that Bernie was cheated and stayed home or pulled the lever and voted for a third party is somehow “immature.” and a “Cry baby.”
I’m frustrated at that sentiment precisely because it demonstrates a narcissistic refusal to at least try to understand where those people were coming from and an unrealistic assumption that the entire pool of voters is mature.
personally I feel that the attitude of dismissing, shaming, guilt tripping, all of those tactics are not particularly wise.
Think about it like this: Say you felt emotions about something, plenty of emotions. and you told a Friend about it and instead of telling you what you were feeling was invalid he constantly went on and told you what you felt was wrong you needed to “Grow up” and “stop crying.”
If you’re NOT a masochist and you have any degree of self dignity you would tell that friend off and proceed to distance yourself from them. You’d be angry and it would only entrench you in the emotions you already felt. Yet this is precisely what a sizable portion of Democratic voters have done and have chosen to think about a sizable portion of the electorate: enough to make or break a campaign.
I don’t think we’re going to get very far with that crowd by dismissing their feelings and like it or not we need them.
I’m a volunteer- for The Democratic party. in the past I’ve made phone calls for Democrats.
I didn’t do that in 2016. I didn’t appreciate having Hillary foisted down my throat as a volunteer. We we the ultimate front line in the GOTV effort. You saddled us with a Candidate people had to hold their nose to vote for.
So f me right?
Magic words like : what you’re feeling is valid.
imagine that.