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Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social |
It worries me that, 9 years in, there's a whole generation of young voters coming up who have only ever known Trumpian dysfunction as normal, ordinary, everyday politics.
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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES
@amockingbird.bsky.social
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Those of us whose first vote was for Clinton grew up under Regan and Bush, then got Newt destroying the norms of the time. Entropy ever since.
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Dire Sloth
@magneticsara.bsky.social
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The first election I voted in was 2000, so it's pretty amazing that I have the faith in democracy I do.
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Kyle Weidleman
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i first turned onto politics in the 2000 election. i voted for the first time in 2006. i distinctly remember the Starr Report and Clinton impeachment, Bush v Gore, and the Tea Party as we rolled toward Trumpism. American politics has been broken for a long time.
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Laustia ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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Those just now able to vote this year, still remember Obama. Though, admittedly, it does feel like a dreamy ancient past. I should shake my roller-ball mouse and yell "back in my day, sunny...."
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Jeffles the no-talent ass-clown
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It worries me more that people think it's an outlier and not the obvious outcome of decades of conservative politics being met with bone-headed naivete from the liberal establishment.
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Pandra
@beechhollow.bsky.social
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we should do better.
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Nate Bowling, ููุช ุจููููุฌ
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It's worth adding, most Democrats haven't voted "for" a candidate in over a decade. Instead they've been told "you must vote for this person who has spent their entire career fighting for things you hate: hard-line immigration policy, Iraq War, drug war, etc.โor you're helping the fascists win."
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Elijah Davis
@speck.bsky.social
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Oh I believe that theyโre gonna change the world for the better.
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minxmarx
@minxmarx.bsky.social
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Unfortunately the dysfunction is now just as Bidenian as it is Trumpian.
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kth
@ktheintz.bsky.social
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The first president I was aware of was Nixon, and that was indeed not great generationally.
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THE Bryan Wenzel
@bryanwenzel.bsky.social
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To be fair, anyone that started paying attention to politics post 9/11 is in the same boat The shit's been broken since the 60s, and Reagan turbo charged the evil - but it was Shrub the Lesser and the 9/11 freakout that really sent things off the rails in a way we'd never though possible prior
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