• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We don’t live in a world of “should”, in the real world of course it is demoralizing and affects the vote turnout.

    We all know the US government will back Israel no matter what… and the voters can only punish the incumbent party for doing so.

    65% of Democrats don’t want to finance Israel. Two thirds of their own party, that’s massive!

    Voter turnout will continue to fall; D and R parties will continue to lose voters (now down to 30% registered voters each) and the Independents will continue to grow (now up to 40% of voters).

    Why? Because our major parties ignore what their constituents actually want, and we can only punish one party every term.

    It shouldn’t be that way, but it is.

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      2 days ago

      The same people in this thread blaming voters for how Kamala Harris ran their campaign were the same ones insisting we had to run Biden as the incumbent, and calling you a bit or a school if you said they needed to be replaced.

      We wouldn’t have this outcome if the people who’ve made it their entire identity to blame voters had placed their frustrations with the party and demanded better, sooner, when it could have made a material difference.

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      1 day ago

      The problem then being the electorate. The same group so many here want to absolve. You may not care about politics and want to ‘check out’ but it still cares about you and will still effect you even if you try to ignore it. In that vein elections will still happen and people you agree/disagree with will still be given power over you and your life. No matter how low the turn out a decision will be made with or without your input. Better to do what you can to give that input and make it the most useful it can be, before you get no input at all

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        1 day ago

        The problem then being the electorate.

        Yeah, they should shut up and love genocide like you do.

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          19 hours ago

          How are all those iranians doing now after those protest votes. Their deaths totally worth the clear conscious of not voting

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            18 hours ago

            The left tried to warn you. As you are doing right now, you deliberately interpreted it as advocacy for trump so you wouldn’t have to alter your unconditional support for genocide and nothing else.

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              8 hours ago

              Because it is. Trump is going to win if you dont do what you can to stop him. He is actively vying for a third term and people here are saying theyll let him have it unless they get every concession they demand. Fuck the consequences. And you all think that is a legitimate way to let this all play out. Dividing your votes into a hundred different candidates will fail. This is fact amd reality.

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                7 hours ago

                You will lose again if you nominate a pro-genocide shithead. You prefer to lose over nominating anyone who might not give netanyahu everything you want him to have.