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Don't blame them, blame the people who didn't vote
Let's blame everyone for everything they did wrong. Blaming people who did nothing before you blame the actual Trump voters is literally insane.
But also blame the DNC for running a de-energizing campaign yet again.
Maybe the fact that people need to be "energized" in order to fucking vote is the problem?
Like I'm sorry, but "you just didn't energize me enough" is not a valid excuse for anyone not to vote, ever. Just goes to show the depth of the average American voter. Just completely devoid of critical thought.
I'm so sick of authoritarian pricks pretending they get to decide what is and is not valid in our system. People not voting is valid and the DNC failed to get them to change their mind
Stop huffing copium and deal with reality
People who weren't energized enough by the perspective of Trump don't count as citizens anyway. I don't know what type of energy you personally wanted, but nothing will work on those who saw Trump's shitshow and decided to sit this one out because Kamala didn't dance enough or whatever
I think people were more tired because Kamala was dancing too much. As in, she and Biden were just there for show and didn't really accomplish much. I did vote for her, but it wasn't because of anything they did.
No, blame Biden and his stupid arrogance.
The man knows his brain is melting AND he knows his presidency is unpopular, but sure, he's going to waste months of campaign time and tens of millions of dollars, and then, to make it even better, he's going to make sure no one in the Democratic Party tries to react to it like a reasonable person and politician.
Biden made plenty of mistakes but ultimately the people who didn't vote are the most directly responsible, full stop.
Each individual voter only had a say in their own vote unless they campaigned as well. Biden was in the position to change how he was seen by all voters. Who has more responsibility here?
And so they deserve fascism.
This attitude will forever lose, you know that, right? This unwillingness to adapt is loser behavior.
Yeah, the person you replied to definitely did not say that.
The democrats knew genocide decreases voter turnout. They did it anyway. The democrats knew ending covid protections, banning tiktok, restarting student loan repayments, etc all lower voter turnout. They did it anyway.
You can wish that we lived in a world where these things didn't lower voter turnout, but that's not productive.
Only the democrats had the power to change the outcome of this election.
The people who voted for Trump are obviously the most directly responsible, full stop with parking brake.