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Silent3

(15,204 posts)
5. No good match among those choices
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 06:26 PM
Jul 2020

My very right-wing fundie sister surprised me by saying she'd given up on Trump (just a couple of weeks after even being willing to defend him on the stupid injecting Lysol thing -- trying to claim that was just his non-expert way of suggesting something brilliant) because of the way he was encouraging the no-maskers and open-up protesters.

She said she was considering herself an independent now, mostly Libertarian, and was clearly in a "a pox upon both their houses" mood about the major parties. I'm pretty sure that means she's going to vote for some obscure candidate (not necessarily the Libertarian), or write someone in, but not pick either Trump or Biden.

She isn't refusing (not that she'd even stated an adamant refusal, it was simply clear she wasn't suddenly pro-Biden) to vote for Biden because she'd "rather see it all burned down", however. I think she thinks it's all burning down no matter what she does, not that she's hoping to help cause that.

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