Is this your first election? Every cycle they shout about wasteful spending, and when they win they increase military spending, cut taxes on the wealthy, and cut important services to cover it, then when that doesn’t cover it they quietly run up the debt just to shout about how high the debt is as soon as they’re replaced.
There’s holding out hope to be pleasantly surprised, and then there’s pretending that there’s even a whisper of a chance that they’ll do the exact opposite of the thing they’ve done for decades.
Nope, I’ve been through a few. In fact, I was originally registered Republican when I was naive enough to think they actually cared about small government. I’m now registered third party to juice those numbers a bit in the hope someone cares about registration statistics, because neither major party actually seems to do what they promise. Sometimes I’ll switch parties to the local dominant party (in my case, Republican), just so I can have a say in the primaries, but usually I don’t particularly care.
Given my two options, hope and despair, I choose the former.
There’s the option of acceptance, where you know what’s going to happen but you don’t waste energy crying about it. Hope in this scenario isn’t hope that they actually do anything beneficial for average people, it’s hope that they’re too incompetent to actually accomplish the horrible things they plan to do.
