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Very often, I get the impression these “leftists” are disingenuous. I figure they’re Russians agents trying to cause instability, GOP astroturfers, or trolls who didn’t get care and compassion in the real world and need to see professional mental/emotional help.
Don’t forget the ever-present tankies!
Refer to the last point for tankies, I think.
And if not they might as well be because there is not a practical reason for any leftist to pick Trump over Kamala.
“Practical” is the important word in what you wrote. Some of these middle class purity test crew have no understanding about voting to prevent the greater harm.
Lots of people seem to be discounting the idea that perhaps they've just been dissilusioned with the electoral process after 30-something years of voting for the lesser evil.
None of them are that old
It's unrealistic to assume that that's the case for every single person who falls into that category. People come from all different walks of life and believe a great number of things. I'm not saying that impossible for any of these people to be how you guess, just that you're removing the possibility of people to exist that don't fit into the way that you think.
My list wasn’t exhaustive.
Yeah, some of them are useful idiots for the above mentioned groups.
Or all of the above.
Though there are always kids at universities wearing Che Guevara t-shirts that are into it for stylistic reasons. When they graduate, many of these types use that university degree to become the asshole bosses of the working class.
Most "leftists" I have conversations with have no idea how the political system of their own country works, let alone anything about geopolitics. Leftism is mostly an excuse to not learn anything about how things work ("because it's all corrupt and needs to be replaced!") and not to vote ("there's no point because all of them are fascists!").
It's just radical slacktivism.