By the way, this is the electoral brain worms shit I often talk about. I don't want to downplay the importance of elections all the way down to zero, but it is extremely not THIS deep. A man is fucking dead
Remember, too, that election years are massive content boons for certain kinds of people. 24-hour news creates more political punditry than is honestly healthy in a democracy, and it's in some folks' very specific interest to make everything about an upcoming election
I mean, I'll say it right now: as important as I think the results of any election are, if someone doesn't feel safe going out to vote this year, I have no problem with them staying home. Because I have no right to demand that anyone risks themselves for anything
Election results are life and death situations for a lot of people, but life and death situations are also life and death situations for people, and if generating election content is this important to you, you've lost the plot