Every once in a while when seeing a repugnant comment I give in to the curiosity to check out their own blog. Generally the contents are just the expected vitriol, bigotry, cruelty and so on but every once in a while I get something to think about.
For example a post using a photo of a youngish blue-haired androgynous person standing at a ballot dropbox with what looks like ~6 ballots in their hands. The captions and comments of course assert that this is a ballot mule, stuffing the box illegally with democrat votes.
First I have the consideration that the photo might be fake, but there is nothing unusual or outlandishly stereotyped about their appearance. They look like many people I see around day to day. I’ll assume it’s a real photo of a real person really dropping off a handful of ballots.
Do the rightwingers not realize that a huge amount of millennials and Gen Z folks are surviging this housing market by living together? Five or more people of voting age in a large suburban home isn’t that uncommon now. Taking your household’s ballots to drop off is not sinister vote manipulation. For that matter neither is offering to take them in for your friends or neighbors. Six or seven ballots in hand does not make someone a mule. It’s like they can’t imagine anything other than atomized single family existence, and beyond its bounds are only the criminal activities of illegals and subhumans, all targets for insult and fantasies of violence.
