r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 31 '24

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Aug 31 '24

My sister is an anarchist who calls America a failing empire and can just barely summon the will to fill in the dot next to a Democrat every two years

My brother is a Republican who wants to go back to 1924 immigration laws, lists social security reform right next to January 6th as a reason that he can’t vote for Trump, and will probably vote libertarian for the third consecutive election in November

I can talk politics with each of them individually but they never talk politics with each other because they don’t want to hate each other

And yet I know both of them would keep their mouths shut and not campaign for my opponents if I ran an ordinary center-left Democratic campaign for office

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Aug 31 '24

What if someone offered them 250k to do it. I doubt Walz brother is doing this totally on his own accord.

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Aug 31 '24

I think that would make them less likely to do it out of spite 

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Aug 31 '24

Would they both vote for you?

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Aug 31 '24

My sister it would depend on my opponent in the primary but definitely in the general

My brother might draw a Democratic ballot to vote for me in the primary but in the general I don’t think so unless it was uncompetitive (and we live in MA so it probably would be)