Summary
Trend underlines vast gender divide as election approaches, as experts say some women face pressure to ātoe the lineā politically at home.
A TikTok trend of women ācanceling outā their partnersā votes highlights a gender divide in the 2024 election, with many young women supporting Kamala Harris while their male partners back Trump. Campaigns encourage women, especially those in conservative households, to vote independently, emphasizing privacy through ads featuring voices like Michelle Obama and Liz Cheney. Conservatives like Charlie Kirk and Jesse Watters criticize these efforts, claiming they undermine family values.
Maybe itās a generational divide or something, but I would lose my fucking mind if my partner for life were braindead enough to support trump. Maybe Clinton v Dole was just a more reasonable thing to disagree with your spouse about (idk, I wasnāt there, and I donāt care enough to look into it, donāt @ me), but a disagreement in 2024 fundamentally is about democracy v fascism, helping people v hurting people, and decency v shameless petulance. A politically split household in 2024 is not a team or a partnership in any meaningful way. Just fucking get a divorce already because youāve clearly married the wrong person! Thereās absolutely no fucking way I could cohabitate with, let alone share a bed with somebody who wants women, children, immigrants, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, and poor people to be punished in every aspect of life for not being financially comfortable, straight, white, cis men. Truly incomprehensible. āBut taxes! But gas prices!ā No. Just no. Youāre clearly not actually paying attention if you think that literally anything would be better for you under trump. There would be short term gains at the expense of long term collapse, just like what happened when you gave him the keys last time.
And I donāt mean you specifically. Just the rhetorical āyouā for anybody it would apply to.
I definitely agree with you there. But my parents are also in their seventies and are set in their ways. My little sister came out as trans and I can obviously tell my dad hates it. My mom doesnāt understand it at all so she just avoids the conversation, but she is supportive.
But I also 100% believe that the majority of people voting for Trump donāt understand the threat of fascism. The thing about fascism and being in a cult like MAGA is that you donāt realize anything is wrong with what youāre doing from the inside. They think what they are doing is the right thing to do. Just look up anyone that has escaped from a cult and they will say the same thing. People donāt want what they believe to be put into question and will fight tooth and nail to protect it. Itās how propaganda works. Like, if someone they trust tells them that Latinos are coming into this country and doing awful things theyād be more inclined to believe them over the stranger theyāve never met telling them theyāre stupid for what they believe in.
Not sure itās generational per se, it is probably a combination of everyone needing to wear their politics on their sleeves and often in a very performative way, along with the fact that the qons keep getting more openly crazier and crazier every year and whipping up stochastic terrorismā¦