Holy. Hell. All of this sounds wonderful except that it's going to be proven to be massively bad if you get your way.I will not be emotionally effected in any event. I am pretty fascinated, maybe morbidly, in what's going on.
I have always been a political junkie in terms of being interested in the trends, strategies, etc...the actual politics of it. My interest kind of waned during GWB's second term and the Obama years, simply for not being that...interesting. Both were mostly average presidents who generated ridiculously outsized rhetoric from their opposition, but I didn't find anything particularly interesting through those years about the electorate, the political landscape (other than the shrill rhetoric), etc.
The Trump thing pulled me back into interest, because it certainly represented some trends and shifts that were fairly fascinating, and I've been pretty interested since.
I definitely have some strong political beliefs (skewing conservative) which I do my best to vote by but don't have a "team". I don't mean I'm particularly open minded and have a hard time imagining voting for any Democrat as currently comprised, but I don't have any particular allegiance or respect for Republicans. They're just closer to some of my policy interests, while Democrats represent almost none.
If this is a good election for Republicans, I will be happy at Democrats losing, but I won't have any joy at Republicans winning. It will mean any number of Republican garbage candidates won, which certainly kicks the can that much further down the road to some hoped-for non-garbage future.
My overall rooting interest is probably that until one of the parties normalizes, that neither party gets a dramatic "mandate" that justifies where they currently are. The best I can hope for is that they continue this stupid shovel fight between morons trading narrow advantages until one party coalesces around something better and less extreme than what they are today.
I wanted to see Biden beat Trump in the last election, but not in a landslide.
I want the Republicans to narrowly take back both houses this election. But if you asked me if I would want some dramatic wave that rewarded Republicans with 58 or 60 Senate seats? No effing way.
I want each side to keep losing close elections and questioning their positioning until one of them gets tired of losing eminently winnable elections and says eff this and positions themselves more moderately and thoughtfully and more in line with what I consider good politics and good government.
You're literally rooting for nothing. You hope for nothing for the USA. It's remarkable.