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Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore
In the Bluest of the Blue places on Earth (San Fran and NYC. not like I'm outing myself to anyone at this point), I'm still getting directed phone calls and texts. About 5 a day. I'm also getting NeverTrump emails averaging about 10, daily.
Next few months are going to be VERY.ANNOYING. On all fronts.
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I donated to both sides in the past few years and I think the fuckers sold or gave away my info.
But the calls are only part of the issue. I'm also tired of being told what I must do by people.
The haute bourgeoisie is the problem. There is nothing more annoying than having someone hold forth at dinner about why it is an "existential" matter that people vote one way or the other. The world will not end in either scenario.
It's also surreal to see the class split in a purple state. While the better off folks like us talk about who's preferable for the market, abortion rights, the environment, etc., the regular folk who haven't enjoyed the Covid Boom and have ripped thru their pandemic savings and are now struggling with food, shelter, and fuel expenses. I'll occasionally acquire the temerity to tell a friend in driving mocs and a pastel polo over oysters and G&Ts that he should acquire a better knowledge of Maslow's Hierarchy before parroting the media narrative that the hoi polloi are only bitchy because they don't know how great the economy really is for them due to lack of higher education in economics.
One can't help but conclude we've entered an arena where the choice is:
A. Do you give a shit about the upper middle class to wealthy, on one hand, and the destitute, on the other, and no shits about the middle?
or
B. Do you not really give a shit about anything but your taxes, and maintaining the notion, probably more a fiction at this point, that it's better for people to be encouraged to do for themselves rather than be provided for by a centrally managed system?
I choose Option C: Gin.
