I have made choices about who to vote for based on the crummy concept of whether or not a candidate shares my views. In a nutshell, that phrase encompasses values, issues, ideology, practicality, vision and optimism. Blindly, I have bought into a psychological contradiction, rejecting stringent evaluation of issues and the technicalities of proposals & platforms ...because when I vote, I want to feel good.
It is always so hard to find the explicit differences in our candidates, anyway, particularly as we get closer to election time. Messages get massaged, issues get clouded and here I am, at the impartial crossroads of an excellent website that valiantly proposes that we just pull the damn D lever and get Democrats elected. Obviously, we all want that, but it just is not good enough. I need to think about it. Because I want to feel Very, Very Good this time.
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