Growing Up Alyssa
> if you vote Republican in 2024, you vote erasure. You vote oppression. You vote fascism<p>As a registered independent who finds both major parties unconscionable, this line of argument worries me.  Frankly, members of both parties can ascribe the worst possible motives to those who vote for the opposition, precisely because both parties are a massive tangle of complex social, economic, political, and administrative issues, not necessarily all consistent with each other, and very often only invoked when it's politically convenient.<p>I'm not trying to engage in false equivalence here, because it is absolutely possible for one party to be worse than the other.  But what I'm saying is that ascribing the worst possible motives to those who don't vote like you is only going to inflame our already polarized political discourse, and my great fear is that if the flames are fanned enough, we're going to end up how Rwanda ended up when the hatred between the Hutus and Tutsis boiled over.