So I guess just to expand on this a little bit more and kind of to vent in the void because I am genuinely a bit confused. Feel free to ignore.

My roommate, who I love to death, we are pretty different politically in a lot of ways. But We've had pretty long conversations on how even if we don't necessarily agree on a path to a solution, we definitely both acknowledge there's something extremely fucked up about our current political system and the problem is coming from both Democrats and Republicans.

What genuinely confuses me Is that, despite his acknowledgement of these political problems, He still votes along party lines, primarily Democrats. His reasoning comes directly from mainstream media. Today we were talking and he said he's not voting for Trump. He's voting for Kamala, which is fine. He can vote however he wants. But his reasoning was that Trump was a fascist, whos supported by Nazis, and Kamala actually cares about human rights.

And even though I'm not a fan of Trump myself, I'm not out there calling him a fascist, and if you look at Kamala's track record when she was a DA and now as a vice president, her actions prove that she doesn't give a shit about human rights. It's literally just party talking lines that she spews out. 

So what genuinely confuses me is that even though someone is aware that these problems, how can they still adhere to party lines and vote blindly Just because the other side is "bad". 

Hence the whole, you can lead a horse to water but not make them drink a comment. Blech. Politics are fucking stupid.

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 There may have been a couple of decades Democrats were demonstrably better at People problems than Republicans.

It's kind of a legacy thought process now 
Afaict lots of Progressive Europeans also feel this way.

" Even though Democrats are terrible we have to vote blue because of Far right Nazism" Etc

smh 

 I'm amazed they had time to cement an agreeable backstory for Kamala into the NPCs before the election 

 Matrix technology makes programming npc consciousness trivial.