the only good thing about Twitter right now is all of the tweets that start with "Hey Democrats!" and are all absolutely solid gold
im trying to imagine the mindset where you still use "democrat" as an identity for yourself or others and its simply impossible. these people have crossed the threshold of intelligibility
@garfiald *looks at the definition of democracy*
*looks at the MODERN definition of "democracy" (aka parliamentary representation)*
*looks at what politics are doing everywhere on the planet*
does not compute
@garfiald most people I know still use Democrat or Republican instead of left/right or even liberal/conservative. I bristle at it nowadays but if someone asks me if I'm a Democrat I just sheepishly say "yeah" because then they have an idea, however vague, of where I'm coming from
@garfiald it sucks though, because then I have to go through yet another round of defusing all of the "oh yeah, what about Obama/Clinton/etc" jabs