The following is a more or less exactly text of a conversation I overheard between two people in line to voting. For those who want to learn more about how Americans governed themselves in the first half of the twenty-first era, I recorded it around.
For the record: I do no embrace, honor, or agree with the speech I’m reproducing above. I am only a humble writer, copying down background.
Scene: Electoral place
People: Man, Woman, both elegantly dressed and around 40 years old, young and smart. They are wearing the kind of clothes that might lead a shallow person who is prone to snap judgments ( me ) to assume that they are both mildly progressive, upper-middle-class professionals. Something about the Lululemon sweatpants ( his ) and the Subaru key fob ( hers ) seems to point in that direction. The huge test votes that were mailed to registered voters are each carried by them. These votes include a vote guide with links to the websites of each candidate and record every race.
Our enjoy begins as the line slowly moves ahead.
Guy:” Do you know who you’re voting for”?
Female:” Um, yes. Do you really want to ask me this?”
Person:” No, no. I meant, like, for the school table. I have n’t had a chance to look those over”.
Female:” I was thinking of election for” — and here she named a member — “because she says on her speech that she’s for diversity”.
The person looks through the voting link, next looks up.
Male:” Of thought, it says”.
Female:” What”?
Male:” She says that she’s for variety of thought. No variety diversity. Variety of consideration. That’s, like, a script word for proper wing”.
Girl:” Oh. I did n’t see that”.
Guy:” On the other hand, she’s Eastern”.
Woman:” What does that imply”?
The person looks round quickly. He appears to have spotted me spying on him. But he lowers his speech. I squirm close to them and act as though I’m on my telephone.
Person:” They’re all about learning. Even she’ll help test results come up”.
Woman:” That’s really … that’s really …”.
Man:” No, it is n’t. Appear, at the top, I’m voting for, you know, her. But when it comes to this thing, I really think we need to get more critical”.
Woman:” But you do n’t know anything about the candidates. You’re basing it on …”
She looks round quickly, also. Her words drops.
Lady:” …that”.
Person:” Yeah, but you know I’m appropriate”.
Female:” Should n’t we hear more than, you know, that part”?
Man:” She’s definitely a ‘ tiger mom.’ We need one of those in the universities”.
Woman:” You do n’t know that”.
Male:” Well, I know I’m no voting for this guy”.
He points to a picture of a white man with a hair and ears studs who is bald.
Man ( reading from form ):” He says he will ‘ prioritize community voices and cultures,’ and I mean, I’m for that and all but …”
Lady:” Yeah, I mean, that’s all great things, positive, entirely for it…but…”
Man:” Yeah… I mean…yeah …”
Lady:” What’s her title again”?
Guy:” Joon”.
Lady:” Joon. Got it”.
They are now in the lead position.
Lady:” Oh, damn, seem where we are. Short, who else should we voting for”?
Person:” Well, maybe this man, I think he’s Asian? And this person does n’t have a photo, but I think that name is Chinese. Lee? Is n’t that a Chinese name”?
Girl:” It could be. But it’s too difficult at this point. Exist any brands that are clearly American? Certainly, like, Littlefeather but the other type”.
Person:” Not for the schools”.
Lady:” For anything”?
Person:” Let me check”.
A polling place charity waved her to the next election equipment as he looked through the voter manual. I believe not to have heard everything. When I vote, I make an effort to avoid noticing the candidate’s names ‘ certain racial details.
The Close.
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Rob Long is a television author and maker, including as a writer and executive manufacturer on , Cheers, and he is the co-founder of Ricochet.com.
