• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    7 months ago

    In general, let’s gently redirect anger away from protest voters.

    First, I haven’t seen any evidence suggesting that the volume of protest votes would have impacted the Electoral College. Harris would have likely won Michigan, but that seems to be the extent of what would have happened if all protest votes had flipped to blue. (Please feel free to correct me with evidence if this is inaccurate.)

    Second, you’re directing your frustration at the wrong group. The Democratic Party ran a campaign that was basically center right and fostered mass apathy at the polls. That’s the real issue. You can continue to direct anger at non-voters, but all this infighting does little to hold the Democratic Party accountable for running a campaign that encouraged people to literally stay home.

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      7 months ago

      First, I haven’t seen any evidence suggesting that the volume of protest votes would have impacted the Electoral College.

      Doesn’t matter. They voted not knowing if they were going to be the deciding factor or not.

      all this infighting does little to hold the Democratic Party accountable for running a campaign that encouraged people to literally stay home.

      They ran a cleaner, less hateful campaign which focused way more on policy than the Republican’s campaign.

      It’s not the campaign that’s the issue. It’s stupid Americans voting against their own best interests because they fell for propaganda and because they always hold the Democratic party to a higher standard. The brunt of the blame lies squarely on the American electorate. Our government is a reflection of our ignorant electorate.

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        7 months ago

        They ran a cleaner, less hateful campaign which focused way more on policy than the Republican’s campaign.

        And a much more hateful campaign than the same party’s campaign four years ago. Feel like leaving that out invalidates everything else you are trying to push.

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      7 months ago

      Nah, they get lumped right in with the people that stayed home. They knew they were throwing their vote away because they knew there was zero chance of their party winning the election.

      The real issue is that all the protest voters and protest non voters enabled this guy, on purpose, and they know it:

      Kilmeade then asked Trump: “Are you on-board with the way the [Israel Defense Force] is taking the fight to Gaza?”

      “You’ve got to finish the problem,” he said.

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        7 months ago

        i’m super excited to see this same strategy with no changes fail a second time XD

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          7 months ago

          Then it sounds like you’re super excited to see an ignorant electorate make stupid decisions again.

          We can blame Democrats all day, every day, or we can accept that Americans are pretty fucking dumb and awful at voting.