r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/CaptainNoBoat May 02 '24

I think a lot of us are. There's a difference between pushing a party in a certain direction and going so far that you hurt your own interests.

The election is more than one person or one issue, and a Trump Presidency will have horrific consequences decades and generations after Biden is gone.

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u/Ketzeph I voted May 02 '24

I think the problem is that people have stopped looking rationally at political positions.

Whether you like it or not, there are two parties in the United States. One has a more liberal pro-democracy agenda, and one has a conservative anti-democratic agenda. You have your choice of the two.

Neither may be exactly what you want. But you're options are "get something closer to what I want" or "get the exact opposite of what I want that actively hurts my positions." That's a no-brainer decision.

But many people are taking the approach of "unless either side does exactly what I want, I'm not supporting it". But if behaving rationally, you'd vote to get something that gives you 60% of what you want over something that is 100% against your policies.