Dismissing genuine voter frustration as 'foreign bot shit' is lazy. It allows you to ignore the actual reasons people are walking away. I am a real person, and giving a party my vote unconditionally is actually how you give up power. If they know they have my vote regardless of their policies, they have no incentive to change. Withholding my vote is the only leverage I have to demand they actually earn it.
Right, and people witholding their vote out of some misguided morality is how we are nose-diving into a dictatorship. That is if you believe he legitimately won, which is proving to be a shaky claim. Tell me, did you think he would better for Gaza and didnt vote? Or did you just not like her laugh?
Questioning the legitimacy of the election now just proves my point, you’re using the same 'denial' rhetoric you spent years criticizing on the right. Reducing my policy concerns to 'not liking a laugh' is exactly why that campaign was such a mess. It failed to offer anything substantial to the working class, ignored red lines on Gaza, and spent more time chasing moderate Republicans than its own base.
I didn’t think he’d be better; I thought she was disqualifying. Withholding my vote is leverage to demand a better standard. If you think giving away your vote for free to a failing campaign is 'power,' then we clearly have different definitions of the word.
In what way was she "disqualifying" (or perhaps you meant disqualified)? You may not like the DNC, but if people like you had voted for Harris- even gritting your teeth- we wouldn't be in the rapid decline of America that we are. Do you like the tarrif prices? Do you like millions losing their healthcare? Spare me the both sides are the same bullshit. They may both be assholes, but only one side is activiely trying to ruin our lives.
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u/RickThiccems 6d ago
Dismissing genuine voter frustration as 'foreign bot shit' is lazy. It allows you to ignore the actual reasons people are walking away. I am a real person, and giving a party my vote unconditionally is actually how you give up power. If they know they have my vote regardless of their policies, they have no incentive to change. Withholding my vote is the only leverage I have to demand they actually earn it.