FadeToBlack&Gold
Proud Statist
Not at all. My mom voted for Hillary, Biden, and Harris. My dad voted for Gary Johnson (which I suppose you could argue was a vote for Dump), then Biden, then probably Harris (definitely not Dump).
I think being college educated in their era and then spending their early adulthood under Reagan (*spit*) has given them a strong sense of voting for balanced government and levelheaded people (again, we'll set aside that Johnson vote here). They liked Tip O'Neil and Senile Ronnie's public pretend-friendsies relationship. My dad loved Slick Willy's 'third way' approach, at least until his zipper problem became all the news cycle would yap about. At the same time, my mom grew up heavily Catholic, so there's still a bit of the ol' self-hating Catholic guilt and dislike of perceived bums and freeloaders there in her worldview.
They're also both in their 70s (well, dad's got another year to go, but close enough) and retired. They probably feel this is no longer their fight. Or that our institutions will save us, etc. etc.
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