[bloopernova]

The cruelty is the point.

They and their supporters want to punish people who have the audacity to be unlike them in dress, thought, and deed.

I'm deeply worried that the USA is headed towards a "dark valley" period, just like the Japanese in WW2.

[falcolas]

I'm holding out hope that we will avoid that kind of a period of time. The polls show a dead heat, but, well, when's the last time you answered a phone call which was marked as 'potential spam' or which came from an unknown number? My phone's been configured to block those entirely. And I'm a xennial.

I think the poll results have been skewed by their reliance on cold calling people, and those cold calls probably only really hit those who are 50+. I don't believe the Republican party has anywhere near the same kind of support from those under 50.

[rootusrootus]

I tend to agree that support wanes with decreasing age, but anecdotally (I have kids in the middle school age bracket) there are a lot of young men swinging pretty hard to the right lately.