I mentioned in a post in the recent past that Trump would probably get close to 80M votes this time around and got shellacked for it. As if Trump didn't pick up millions of votes as he was totally shitting the bed during a worldwide pandemic. To be clear, if Harris maintains the exact amount of votes Biden got, and Trump loses votes from last time, there's almost no way Harris doesn't win...and yet polls (that don't matter) aren't showing that. Unless the polls are extremely fucked (and really really don't matter) then Trump will almost assuredly pick up more voters from 2020. Hey, I hope not, but I wouldn't put money on him getting less votes than last time...almost by pure population growth alone he's going to pick up more votes. But if I'm wrong and he loses votes, I'll proudly say I was 100% wrong, as I can relax instead of preparing to fight fascism from the inside...what a relief.
Anyway, Harris isn't the perfect candidate, and there's 70+M voters who look at an overtly authoritarian shitbag like Trump and say stupid shit out loud like, "he's a businessman and a country of 330+M people should be ran like a business". Or, "gas was cheaper during a worldwide pandemic recession so it being more expensive now means Biden is bad". Literally millions of fucking morons who say that shit and are registered to vote and will vote. We have a few right here on these forums. Hilarious but tragic is the way of the world.
Then you pile onto that, Harris is a BLACK WOMAN - an out-group member - and you're going to tweak the amygdala of millions of non-voting morons to come out and effectuate their racism, because without their racism, they know they're just run-of-the-mill-fucking-losers (losers will do better under Democrats, which is why many of them would never vote Democratic...that's also a way of the world). That's a real demographic, and the Republican Party has been constructed from the ground up for the past 70 years to recognize and empower those fucking losers. Feature, not a bug.
I remain cautiously optimistic, hence my top map pick of Harris. I do have money on a Harris win, nevermind the functioning of a fracturing society in the midst of societal collapse (it can not be avoided, only mitigated...and almost every American is going to do far worse if it's Republicans guiding the mitigation).
I am also prepared to be let down by my fellow Americans deciding that overt fascism is worth a shot. Due to my own status/privileges, I'll be OK enough to have a front-seat view of the catastrophe without being Boxcar'd early on, and I'll definitely look forward to helping my fascist-enabling fellow citizens to "find out". I have my avatar and my signature for a reason.
Here's hoping the "American People" can reason themselves around fascism. I'm cautiously optimistic and yet skeptical. 2016 PTSD is going to take awhile to move past.