This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Can we give this rhetoric a rest? The voting system, the enforced lack of alternatives, hell even really the people who voted for this shit are all much more to blame than people who didn’t vote. Or how about the fact “Multiple Republican-led administrations removed voters from their states’ voter rolls in the lead up to the election”? Or the fact you don’t even vote on the week-end, which is what pretty much all civilised countries do, to give more chances to more people especially poor people to get to the voting stations?
On top of that, how can you know what people who didn’t vote would have voted for? Some of the states with the lowest turnout are one that are historically considered more conservative-leaning (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Missisipi, Tennessee). The results could have been “worse” (whatever that means, given the shitshow that is the Electoral College).
Really, it feels like it’s so much easier to blame a subset of people than to confront the fact that, in the US, the majority of the population appears to be for an autocratic asshat who has claimed they wouldn’t need to vote after they vote for him. The US population, as a majority, appear to want this. More people voting may not have changed anything about that.
It’s not surprising that voter turnout is now when you have an unhealthy democracy (because it is a symptom of it). This is a bit like blaming people for eating unhealthily when all that’s available to eat is unhealthy: you’re not wrong that it’s bad for them, but what the fuck are you actually doing do provide better options? So rather than blame those who didn’t vote, for any variety of reasons, get organising. Low turnout is a seed that was planted a long time ago.
The people who did not vote for Harris destroyed all chances of ever getting a better candidate.
Why isn’t it the people who didn’t vote for Stein? The reasoning works the same.
At the end of the day, you are a hair away from “anyone who didn’t vote from my preferred candidate sucks”. But guess that’s a lot more obvious when you are from a country that isn’t entirely a two party system.
Because realism exists and Jill Stein is an even worse disaster than any democrat. Just marginally better than republicans.
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Fuck no, no voting protest voters are part of the reason we have this sweeping fascist rule in our country. So no, they don’t get a boo hoo pass on that shit.
No voting protest voters are a tiny proportion of the no voters.
90 million registered voters didn’t vote, the most in US history. Please share what you have that points to the protest vote being a small percentage of that 90 million.
I’d love to see hard data, if it exists. Not holding my breath.
Please share what you have that points to the protest vote being a small percentage of that 90 million.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncommitted_National_Movement
You’re assuming the amount of people that signed their little pointless petition is 1:1 with those that actually protest voted because memes told them to.
I have evidence of at least 700k protesters.
What evidence do you have?
Nope. These people need to feel just as stupid as Trump voters in 2016 who subsequently voted for Biden after seeing the result. Given how many are still defensively showing up to post walls of text every time this is brought up, there’s a lot of work to be done to overcome the counter-messaging.
We should absolutely do what we can to primary feckless centrist Democrats, and to push the party to the left, but that’s not mutually exclusive with getting people to show up and not make the same stupid decision twice. We aren’t going to completely fix our democracy in 2 years to the point that these idiots will be satisfied. We can make headway on making things better, but people need to vote for that to happen.
So to be absolutely clear: if you did not vote, this is what you voted for. That should be upsetting, you should feel bad, and you should make damn sure that you don’t make the same mistake in 2026, 2028, or any other election as long as you live.
I won’t feel bad about not voting for Kamala even if I were sent to El Salvador, or marched into a gas chamber. I made peace with that before I voted PSL.
Y’all fundamentally misunderstand us. You think we’re simply misinformed, that we don’t appreciate the threat, that if only we saw the facts of what the Republicans are like, we’d immediately see things your way. What you don’t understand is that we do see the facts, we’re just operating under a different ethical and political framework from you. The point of disagreement is not about the facts on the ground, it’s about the best way to respond to them. So merely pointing to the awful shit the Republicans do has no chance of swaying, well, I can’t speak for everyone, but certainly me, and anyone who thinks like me.
Nope, got another 3.5 years of reminding protest-non-voters what they voted for.
Ha ha but You voted for Genocide!
/s
So did the protest non-voters, even moreso than the Democrat ones.
The non-genocide position was literally impossible to express no matter what you tried to do.
Green Party maybe?
Nope, that has the same effect as not voting.
A non-vote is = support for every candidate
A third party vote doesn’t
Even if the end result is the same it shows you don’t support the winner
Any action other than voting for the only candidate that could beat Trump was effectively a vote for Trump. End of.
Strange that Biden won in 2020 despite 2/3 of the country “effectively voting for Trump” by not voting for Biden🤔
“christians” just do not give a fuck about kids unless they’re touching them or oppressing brown ones smfh
Obviously a clerical error. The decimal place is off. It’s supposed to be 0.00
Whaaaaat…?
The party who put a coal lobbyist in charge of the EPA for Trump’s entire previous term did this…?
Nooooo.
/sarcasm
Probably a blessing in disguise. If they were funding climate research it would almost certainly be fraudulent science.
