A good but much more conservative than I am friend
and i talked for a long time yesterday. She told me that she voted for Cal Cunningham even though she does not like the way he goes after the pharma industry and his bad judgment regarding a sex scandal during the middle of a campaign. Her even more conservative brother (they are both from Western NC and he still lives there) voted for Joe Biden AND Roy Cooper.
I struggle to understand why these votes were hard for them. Especially the Senate vote, because even when Joe wins, if we don't take the Senate McConnell will still be doing his evil during a Biden term.
We talked for a long time about the fallacy (as I see it) of the conventional wisdom that republicans are better for the economy. We argued over whether Amy Barrett will be bound by the law or by her religion and partisan interests, and whether it was ethical for her to even allow herself to be used this way.
We bemoaned the estrangement caused by the great divide. Between us, we can talk out our differences. She said, "I just want us to stop hating each other."
I do too. I love my brother and we never talk. She said you can debate, and I said how do you debate somebody who's operating on a completely different set of facts? we did not resolve this conversation, but we're still friends, and she voted almost straight Dem ticket except i think Agriculture and some other office not part of the GA.
she said she's going to switch her affiliation to unaffiliated because Democratic GOTV calls are driving her crazy lol
NC GO BLUE
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My husband is unaffiliated & gets tons more calls & mail than I do. 
I have wondered for a long time why Wall Street doesn't bust the myth that republicans are better for the economy, but I decided after 2008 that they don't really care so much about the overall economy than they do the ability for them to exploit it—run up a bubble, sell out before the crash, & then buy up everything they can for pennies on the dollar. Happens about every ten years, it seems. The 1% have very successfully pitted the working/middle class against each other.