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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m extremely concerned about the election. I think trump is a petulant vengeful baby who brings out the worst and appeals to the worst in humanity and cannot believe he is on the ticket (have voted both ways in the past but trump to me is next level insane). Trying to get dh to do canvassing/ phone banking but he doesn’t want to and is not concerned bc ‘it’s fine’ and ‘Kamala will win’. Clearly the polls do not clearly show this and to me his disinterest is personal - so many more women and babies have died since roe reversed. I just feel like he is a weenie not to be as fired up as I am or at least in the ballpark of it. Anyone else? [/quote]

Politics is like the weather, there really isn’t anything a random individual can do to move the needle much.  This election is going to come down to the choices of a small group of undecided voters, and it’s very hard to figure out how to motivate them because anyone who pays any attention at all to politics made up their mind long ago.  Who knows what they are thinking?  What you really want is for your DH is to engage in performative but immaterial actions to signal his anti-Trump bona fides, and it’s perfectly rational for him to conclude that this is a waste of effort.  There is no point in neurotic angst about the elections, it won’t change a thing.  Some people want to feel like they are doing something, some people see no point to it at this stage of the game.  Both perspectives reasonable IMO.  I think you’re really just worried about the outcome and taking it out on him.[/quote]

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