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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy conservative Republican voting in-laws surprised me this afternoon.
We had a Zoom call with the family (all in their own homes), and the father started talking about how good Boris Johnson was for telling the UK citizens to stay at home, watch your distance from others, and wear face masks. Then he said, unlike Trump who is telling the country nothing, and also telling them to get back to work. He is very disappointed in Trump.
We'll see what happens. I just can't see them voting blue.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)at least on the presidential line, but better the whole election.
ooky
(8,906 posts)It's been going on for over three years, it had to sink in sometime. Too bad it took a killing pandemic for people to begin waking up.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)Alleviate this situation. Dismantling the pandemic response unit, putting incompetents in charge of key agencies such as the CDC, relying on political cronies who know nothing to supervise the planning (Jared? Seriously?), and touting unproven treatments I suspect he set up to make him money.
As you implied, it is not just the pandemic response that has been mishandled, it is every part of government has been systematically taken apart and made ineffective.
fierywoman
(7,668 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)It has become so obvious that we have become the target.
None of us want to die for Trump.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)two party system.
Im old enough to remember when people typically voted for balance in govt - if it was going too far one way, then theyd vote for the other party.
That was back before Reagan, identity politics, and RW talk radio.
raging moderate
(4,292 posts)I remember that phrase from the old days.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)Or vote without filling in a PROTUS choice....
Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)Just tell him to shelter in place on election day.