I totally agree.Sabin wrote:Millennials in my life are divided into the disappointments that I've discussed above and those who have been so activated by Trump and the right-wing's attack on civil liberties that they are blue no matter who for life. That number should be substantially higher and that is what is so frustrating.
That's true to a degree but it also applies to the longtime Republicans who became MAGA Republicans.OscarGuy wrote:A lot of what forms a person's political identity is formed in their teens and twenties. They don't magically change as they age. I think this myth is a byproduct of the fact that we've mostly seen the last of the boomers who've realigned politically because they were always a touch racist, but it wasn't until the last quarter century or so where their racism has been rejected by Democrats and thus they find no home in the Dem party any longer. That's why people like Trump and others of his ilk have switched party affiliations, not because they became more conservative, but that the Dems have become less tolerant of casual racism and are more willing to call people out on that bull shit than they used to be.
Most people in this country are Democrats or Democrat leaning Independents. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean much when the MAGA Republicans control the small population states that elect small-minded Republicans to the Senate which keeps the Democrats from exercising control thanks to the Jim Crow era filibuster that still reigns supreme in their chambers.