Who will run in 2020?

6ix · December 3, 2019, 1:22pm

That post made go back and reread the most amazing post ever:

There are a lot of people, particularly people who spend most of their lives doing stuff rather than thinking about stuff, who don’t really question the politics they were raised with. They are often super progressive (in the sense that they understand the space and are always thinking about how to push it forward rather than just trying to defend the status quo) in the fields they are actually experts in, but don’t bother to really think too hard about politics.

For example my closest business partners are religious, and republican… but they are genuinely decent people who run a good business and are an absolute wonder to partner with. They aren’t hurting anyone or anything in their personal lives, it’s just that they spend 90%+ of their time doing stuff instead of thinking about stuff. When they get free time they go do stuff. They don’t sit around thinking about how things are, should be, etc. They probably don’t read much, and if they do read they probably avoid stuff that would contradict their beliefs.

They aren’t regular Fox News watchers really, they aren’t news of any kind watchers. They simply don’t follow it, and it has little to no impact on their lives. And they are significantly happier than the members of this forum honestly.

People like these aren’t bad really. They just believe whatever was standard in the area they grew when they were growing up. They would be liberal if they had grown up in a liberal area at a more liberal time. They tend to be significantly out of date in their political views by the time they die, and are an excellent reason why old people shouldn’t be allowed to vote (because some large % of them are going to be like this, and their voting choices become more and more destructive as they age I’m hypothesizing).

Being a doer instead of a hard core thinker is why Elizabeth Warren was a Republican until she was 50. You don’t really have time to do stuff like update your political philosophy on a biannual basis when you’re working your ass off. In her case she was raising multiple kids (my business partners had a LOT of kids as well) while working full time, getting married, divorced, married again, getting multiple degrees, and becoming one of the nations leading experts on bankruptcy… where she was almost immediately very progressive because that’s generally where you land as you become more and more informed.

What I’m trying to say is that there are a lot of pretty decent people out there who identify as Republicans. The ones who make it a core part of their identity all suck though lol. They’ve really thought about it and decided that Trump is god. That’s a really weird take.

And just for the last word my business partners were very uncomfortable about Trump from the beginning because they are good business people and know a scammer when they see one. I’m 90% sure they didn’t turn out for him… and they are the kind of people who see voting as a duty and take duty super super seriously. The only reason I don’t know what their current view on the matter is, is that I’m not a barbarian and know better than to rub people with whom I do enormous business withs faces in shit.