Ideologists, fighting to the last worker

Politics last week got surreal.  The political fringe left stood with Elon Musk, stridently demanding that the Senate Democrats block the CR and give Musk the government shutdown he declared he wanted -- a shutdown he could rightly have blamed on Democrats.  The left wanted a shutdown inflicting even more pain on an already reeling economy, and costing probably millions of people their incomes, to score a "win" against the Republicans.  After the vote, post after post at sites like the Daily Kos hurled abuse at Schumer for the unforgivable crime of giving me and people like me a slightly better chance at survival.  To these ideologists, we're just pawns on the chessboard, to be sacrificed in their game of "oppose the Republicans on everything no matter what the real-world impact".

I'm close to giving up on them completely, but I'm not quite there yet.  That point will come when they find this post (and Friday's) and launch into their canned lectures about why I'm wrong without bothering to seriously consider or assimilate what I've said.  They have the blind, immovable conviction of their own righteousness that comes with total commitment to a cause and to a set of beliefs.  My standpoint is that of a sickly, exhausted, frightened old guy just hoping to avoid the final shove into the abyss for a bit longer.  It's not a perspective they find worth truly listening to, and I'm about ready to give up on being heard.