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Dump Term 2, 1.01: Sleep Now in the Fire

aparch said:
Long post:

So I had an interesting chat with a co-worker yesterday which surprised me. Couple things to note, she voted for yam tits because she admitted she didn't understand Harris. To her, Harris sounded like the teacher from Peanuts and she never could grasp what campaign issues Harris was pushing. But this coworker understood what Trump was, and liked what she was being sold. For her, the "bumper sticker" oneliners made more sense to her than having to research Harris's website to find everything she was proposing.

What took me back a little bit was this coworker is college educated, has an EIT and is scheduled to take the PE this spring. She's not dumb, and has critical thinking skills, but there's just something not clicking between her and the Democrats. She also is a Joe Rogan listener and a couple other podcasts she's mentioned as listening to I recall being very right biased.

She, like many, see the government continuing this slide into debt as unreasonable (honestly, we all do) and there needs to be serious cuts to bring the budget back in line. Because, that's what she had to do in college when she was strapped for cash. She sees these drastic cuts as necessary.

The big cut she mentioned was how the Postal Service should be privatized if they are going to keep being a drain. I summarized briefly how congress put the USPS into the hole they're in. She still was dismissive and said it should be privatized anyway, there are businesses that do what they do.

So I had to explain how that's fine around here in Chicagoland. Amazon has their own delivery fleets, UPS, FedEx, DHL and the like are all in the area and all do delivery. But outside of the population areas. The USPS does the last mile delivery. And I had to explain this to her. It took a few different examples and personal experiences, but I kept repeating that the Government provides a service, it's not a business. The government provides what businesses either refuse to, or would price it so expensive that it's not feasible.

You could see the lightbulb moment when she realized service versus business. Maybe it's the fact I grew up in a town where they merged with two neighboring towns to save money and didn't even double the population, and experienced these last mile services first hand and her experience with it is glamping for a week every year.


Anyway, I really don't have a wrap up to this, I just needed to vent.

And maybe somehow someone smarter than I can break through to people like her and get the messaging across.
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A young, presumably white engineer being an ignorant privileged moron? Knock me over with a feather.

The only surprising thing is her gender. Otherwise prototypical
 
aparch said:
Long post:

So I had an interesting chat with a co-worker yesterday which surprised me. Couple things to note, she voted for yam tits because she admitted she didn't understand Harris. To her, Harris sounded like the teacher from Peanuts and she never could grasp what campaign issues Harris was pushing. But this coworker understood what Trump was, and liked what she was being sold. For her, the "bumper sticker" oneliners made more sense to her than having to research Harris's website to find everything she was proposing.

What took me back a little bit was this coworker is college educated, has an EIT and is scheduled to take the PE this spring. She's not dumb, and has critical thinking skills, but there's just something not clicking between her and the Democrats. She also is a Joe Rogan listener and a couple other podcasts she's mentioned as listening to I recall being very right biased.

She, like many, see the government continuing this slide into debt as unreasonable (honestly, we all do) and there needs to be serious cuts to bring the budget back in line. Because, that's what she had to do in college when she was strapped for cash. She sees these drastic cuts as necessary.

The big cut she mentioned was how the Postal Service should be privatized if they are going to keep being a drain. I summarized briefly how congress put the USPS into the hole they're in. She still was dismissive and said it should be privatized anyway, there are businesses that do what they do.

So I had to explain how that's fine around here in Chicagoland. Amazon has their own delivery fleets, UPS, FedEx, DHL and the like are all in the area and all do delivery. But outside of the population areas. The USPS does the last mile delivery. And I had to explain this to her. It took a few different examples and personal experiences, but I kept repeating that the Government provides a service, it's not a business. The government provides what businesses either refuse to, or would price it so expensive that it's not feasible.

You could see the lightbulb moment when she realized service versus business. Maybe it's the fact I grew up in a town where they merged with two neighboring towns to save money and didn't even double the population, and experienced these last mile services first hand and her experience with it is glamping for a week every year.


Anyway, I really don't have a wrap up to this, I just needed to vent.

And maybe somehow someone smarter than I can break through to people like her and get the messaging across.
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She may be educated, but she is still a moron. She has zero critical thinking skills and wants people to spoon feed her information...not unlike Joe Rogan. She is lazy, she is easily manipulated, and she represents (sadly) a large part of the voting population.
 
Jimjamesak said:
It's claptrap like that does more to help Republicans win than anything else. Both sides are the same, nobody represents you! Most Americans want the same! (except they don't)

The simple explanation is "never explain with conspiracy what can be explain with stupidity." Democrats and their leadership are a party of norms, a party of rules, a party of unity and empathy. The problem is the opposing party is a party of destruction, a party of greed, a party of "do whatever it takes to grab power". It's not a grand conspiracy of working together to screw everyone, it's because the Democratic leadership is old, has no idea how to operate in the modern political world, and refuse to yield power because the people that could get them out of power are just as feckless and lazy.
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Bingo.
 
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