Thank you for your considered response! So much in here. My favorite part is democrats shooting themselves in the foot, which they do on a regular basis. Why would I vote for a party that shoots itself in the foot as a seemingly deliberate strategy? Or for a party that stages elaborate ruses to explain away their own incompetence, such as the Russian Fairy Tale, wasting MY money and MY time, because they can't say "maybe we should rethink our strategy"? Or impeachment?! Another massive waste of time and money. We all would have been much better off had they put that much energy into doing the jobs we elected them to do, which is to craft and correct legislation. "Do nothing Democrats" is no false moniker.
I do not care for either candidate, but the Dem candidates came out on their first day together and said the worst thing they could have said as far as i am concerned: that a true leader would ban all breathing of fresh air from that day until after the election. Their demanding more pedantic tyranny than what we are all living under already did not give me a warm and fuzzy. In fact, I decided at that moment that the two of them would never ever be my president/VP.
Trump is supporting the tyranny as well, although letting the localities decide how to handle things for their state was a great move, very constitutional of him, and we will be able to see whether freedom or lock down produced the better results - at present it's looking like a tie for controlling covid, and a massive win for freedom in all other things.
As president, I know what Trump would do, now that we've seen what that is for four years, and I don't think he has done anything all that horrible, just Republican policy which may stick in my craw, but does no real lasting harm (I realize this is debatable). When it comes to Harris/Biden though, I have no idea what they will do, or rather the only specific thing they have told us is that they will tyrannize us even more. No way I am voting for them. This will be the first presidential election in my life that I will not vote Democrat, and I have showed up at the polls for that election 11 times.
I disagree that Republicans are more racist than Democrats or that Republican policy is racist. Both of those are democratic party fiction. This is a long conversation, but it's rooted in freedom to make ones own value judgments. I consider your statement that "black people vote against their interests" a racist statement. Sorry. It suggests that we white better off folks know more about what is right for poor dumb black folks than they do themselves, that they are stupid to not be liberals and that's why they are also poor; that they are stupid and weak and need us to tell them right from wrong. Many are conservative thinkers and a conservative lifestyle is more true to their own selves than a liberal one would be.
Conservatism is not a great evil. I know your disdain for Peterson, but he is 100% correct on this point imo. Sameness is the Democratic Party goal, and that IS a great evil. Read The Giver (Lowry) if you never have. I also recommend Oryx and Crake, Atwood.
OK there is much more to say, but I gots to go!