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They're not uneducated. They're desperate, and they spent the last 8 years watching both parties ignore how much they're struggling. Why miss a day of work when you know your vote doesn't matter?
Also, you need to ditch this smugness if you want to win people to your side.
They clearly are since they acted against their best interests and only the uneducated and insufferably weak willed work against themselves.
you seem to be under the misconception that I'm trying to win people to my cause. I refuse to pander to their absurd ideals and will not coddle them like children.
point blank, I don't give a damn about their fragile sensibilities about whatever political wedge they want to believe in on a whim.
the people who refused to vote, that allowed this to happen, could rot in the streets as far as I care. They are simply a distraction from the true enemy, Russia and China.
I will do everything within my power to resist Russian and Chinese aggressions. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I know I'm going to do everything I can to be a huge pain in the ass for them.
this includes but is not limited to the netizens who have and are spreading their propaganda.
every raging river starts as a flowing stream.
Apathetic != uneducated. Plenty of people don't vote because they can't be bothered to.
My own mother refused to register for DECADES because "I don't want to be picked for jury duty." Not making that up. I finally convinced her to register after pointing out jury duty also comes from drivers license records.
So what your saying is that your mom was pretty uneducated and only participated in the voting process after you educated her.