this. i walked into the post office to pick up my mail-in ballot and had a chat with the postal worker there. i was explaining that, as an independent, i couldn't in any way justify what trump did on january 6th, that we were so close to losing our democracy. he agreed and told me that almost every independent that comes in says they're voting for kamala. even the local ffl, a scruffy old man who frequently comes into to pick up foreign firearm parts, agreed with me and said that it was way too important to value immigration policies over our democracy's integrity. i'm in tx and it seems pretty straightforward: no sane person wants trump in. i was at the bar a few weeks ago with my stepfather and we were talking about what's going on globally. the wars in the middle east and europe are pretty scary, i'll admit it, but trump's policies would drive us straight into wwiii. a group of mexicans sitting next to us overheard us and one of the guys, he was pretty short, said "hombre, seor trump might deport me if he win, but is better than nuclear holocaust." i was stunned. the rest of the bar chimed in afterwards though, agreeing that kamala was levelheaded and able to steer our country into a brighter, more democratic future. the one mexican who showed himself to be against his own people slinked off shortly after his smackdown in a beaten up 1995 chevy pickup truck when the local bartender asked him for id. we haven't seen him at the bar since then, but his friends still come around. i think the american people are waking up.
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