Unless you’re simply viewing it in tribal terms. You’re on the red team so you accept anything negative about the blue team. And vice versa.

If you’re just on America's team, I think you’re ignoring propaganda because it’s propaganda. And you’re realistically looking at our economy vis a vis the world’s, regardless of how the masses are impacted by the first inflationary challenge of their lives. And you’re realistic about having 2 choices in a binary race - frequently, neither are thrilling.

I repeat - old and left of center ain’t in the same league with unstable and autocratic. It’s an easy choice. But, as I said the other day, if your tribal loyalties force you into voting for RFK jr or leaving the top line blank, that’s a small piece of good news for democracy in the US. People assume apathy and 3rd party will siphon from Biden, but you might be a case in point of the opposite.