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In the midst of different ideologies, rational choices, and imaginary state, political preferences can be naturally expressed by many group and communities due to the openness of Indonesian society. Along with Indonesian political movement, the expression of political discourse is believed related to political preferences. The preferences often reflects the political identity based on their entity or community which are attached to the concept of self-identity. Nowadays, the sense of Indonesian politics tend to accommodate the practice of purity of its supporters, the political preferences echoes the generation matrix that regulates the relation between the visible and the invisible, the imaginable and the non-imaginable at a representational level. In the context of political preferences of Chinese Indonesians, political inclusion has been established in which reflects new hope giving a vocal voice in expressing political thoughts. However this sphere is only an illusion due to the current political movement that creates the tendency of creating social groups based on people’s political preferences. Based on our findings through ethnographical approach in digital and social media, personal sphere such as family chat groups and social media posts forces the existence of purity in the everyday life political condition which nurture a problem in defining political representation of a certain group. Defining ‘the others’ political identity based on imaginary self preference becomes a problem. Reshaping political preferences is an eternal struggle for Chinese Indonesians, as their struggle to escape from an act of being cautious in any kind of situation which accepting the false consciousness that they are segregated and only a phantom in politics.