I think this conversation is a good indicator of why the left keeps losing elections. Instead of rallying around the fuckery or laughing at the fools who opted to get fucked over by it, we are on here bickering and trying to educated one another to have our standards.
A lifelong friend changed his name legally. We have been friends since we were little kids, and it was very difficult for me to simply switch a name, compounded by the infrequency of our visits, after 2 years he let me off the hook. He knew I was trying, but I just struggled to get over the entrenchment.
Yeah, they were "working on it" like Trump's health care plan, infrastructure deal, and My Pillow Guy's evidence. Shit even the "two weeks" guys in the Money Pit eventually finished.
But that belies an education issue. USSR was never a communist country, but that never stopped the stupids from thinking they were. I can relabel grapes as cotton candy, but they are still grapes. That voters and immigrants never learned this is also our problem. Ignorance, dissonance, and bias are the building blocks towards oligarchic rule.
His main objective was to mitigate the disaster of Covid, then start-unfucking everything else. There was too much to unfuck, because the bad actors are entrenched and didn't just start with trump.
To be fair, I have the opinion (I could be wrong) that those who escaped or immigrated from left-wing authoritarian regimes are kind of programmed to be against what they see as the left in the U.S. because they think it is a path to authoritarianism rather than having the local knowledge that it is the right who is more prone to authoritarian tendencies/policies.