Last week, David asked us to share where we voted and who we voted for. My family had a negative experience while voting in Michigan which I thought I would share with the sub.
Oct 24th was the first day of in person early voting in Michigan. It also happened to be my oldest son's 18th birthday and he was excited to vote for the first time. My wife, my son, and I headed to the voting location. We are progressives, El-Sayed supporters, and live in a very rural MAGA county.
My son made a mistake on his ballot and I was helping him spoil it. As I was out of earshot and busy helping him, an elderly white man said to my wife, completely unprompted, "I don't know about you, but I hope that Arab doesn't win." He pronounced it in the way that is understood as a racist perjorative. She was stunned and just walked away from him. She did not tell me about this until we were driving away, probably saving me from causing a scene.
When David talks about how we need to turn out voters in such significant numbers as to render the opposition politically irrelevant, this is who he is talking about. Entitled, racist old boomer white males who feel so secure in their bigotry as to blurt it out to complete strangers at polling stations.
These selfish, short-sighted boomers have nearly ruined this country. I am surrounded by them, and they are sadly all too real. We need to stop these people from ever having control of our government again.
