re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Though you really shouldn’t try to make the case by comparing Trump to Biden with these people. It’s a “both sides do it” argument. (And arguing about degree of it doesn’t really help.)

And in the current political environment equivalency is essentially a loss for the Democratic cause. That simply opens up the skeptic to just say “Both parties are the same and I see no reason to vote for either.” which as we know is essentially a vote for Trump in the long run.

I have the impression that trying to convert these people* is a massive use of energy that would be more productively used towards GOTV issues, fighting against voter suppression, and supporting vote-by-mail initiatives now.

* - Based in part that I think “people” in this group are a mix of those that are trying to hold a meaningful discussion, those that are arguing for the sake of arguing and whose minds are fixed, those that are trolls just trying to “get a rise out of the libs”, and those that are deliberately trying to deflect and waste others time.