Why do I get the feeling that I'm JUST starting to realize that most of these fucks running for office are treating it no differently than a high school homecoming dance?
well, here's the thing. I've been pretty aware of the state of things since 9/11 and up until age 35 (am 39 now) It was ALWAYS my running assumption that people just kept maturing as they got older...
Here I am all of about to be 40 just now fully coming to terms with the fact that some people never make it mentally past grade school and THAT is what is depressing for me.
I think it is a period when they peak. They stop growing. There are people that are my age (almost 60) still wearing 1980s hair, and clothes. That was their peak, and they don't change. People that peaked in highschool on the football team and you still hear about in their 50s, who then try to live through their children, who obviously wanted to play football.
Some do it in the teens, some in college, some keep growing an evolving. I had many set opinions when I was young, and having kids made me evaluate my parents, and my opinions. Keep changing.
They have almost a sunken cost into their personality, they won't change, can't change. And they usually don't react well to being asked to change.
My family is MAGA. And the best they can do is "not vote". Not admit they are wrong, just sit it out to see how it comes out. Or so they are telling me. And they like to group up and attack my wife and I, and when we hit them with facts, it is "you can't prove that", you prove it, "that is not from a real news agency". They have their talking points, and you can go to parties and see them just parrot them. Over and over and over.
So yeah, they stop at some point and just "settle"? Same clothes, same beliefs, same everything.
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u/Last-Appointment6577 1d ago
Why do I get the feeling that I'm JUST starting to realize that most of these fucks running for office are treating it no differently than a high school homecoming dance?