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it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

This was NOT the time to do this. This election was about the end of fucking democracy in the face of fascism and these abstainers wanted to pull teenage shit and fucking ended the country as we know it.

Now Gaza is getting wiped out because these abstainers couldn't abstract what a p2025 theocracy was going to do?

People were screaming about this for months. THIS election was an existential fight right now at home, and they chose to pull idealist teenage shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

THIS election was an existential fight right now at home

Like they said, longtime Dems have been hearing this for at least the last few elections, if not longer than that. This messaging doesn't work anymore, it's crying wolf to many people

[–] [email protected] 0 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

And now the wolf came.

The danger was real, unlike the dangers Republicans scream about. Why didn't anybody tell THEM they're crying wolf?

[–] el_psd 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I mean, I place more of the blame for "ending the country" on the fascists and the people who enthusiastically put them into power, but if you want to blame the handful of people who abstained then you do you I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Abstaining is an active choice. For someone eligible to vote, there doesn't exist an "I opt out of any accountability for the outcome" option.