When someone uses that phrase approvingly, I assume they're ignorant & don't know how to evaluate information. Today I was having a nice conversation at the laundromat with a man about my age who is a hospice nurse for indigent patients. He disparaged tRump in a way that felt cozy: we're on the same page, I figured. I said something about people who "do their own research" are usually muddled in their thinking. He kind of rolled over the end of my sentence & said that's why he is voting for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. "I've been antiwar my whole life," he said. I said if it doesn't matter to you personally, please vote on behalf of women & those who. "That's why I'm voting for Stein."
Does he think people who support Harris (or tRump, for that matter) are PRO-war? Does he think a President Stein could magically bring about peace in Europe or the Middle East? To me that sounds like a dreamy adolescent: War is bad for children & other living things. Right, bub, no one disagrees. But: Putin. Hamas. Taliban.
I realize this account of the conversation is likewise a little muddled. A protest vote is fine in New York but does he, & others on his train, not remember that Nader voters put Bush in the White House?