Sure there were people pretending third parties mattered but apathetic voters are a response to her dogshit campaign at the end of the day.
Apathetic voters are a loud and clear declaration of “I don’t care if the literal fascist wins” in this election, man.
Harris having a dogshit campaign doesn’t change that. Harris’s dogshit campaign condemns Harris, and her allies; but the victory of Trump condemns everyone who stood by and refused to do the least thing, a cast vote, to stop him.
Apathy is not an excuse. Apathy is exactly why they deserve condemnation. Anyone who is apathetic about fascism is not someone who deserves a milder rebuke than would otherwise be given. Apathy about fascism is a serious moral failing.
How can you run on a platform of democracy, when democracy has gotten the average American citizen jack shit?
“Vote for a Democrat. If Democrats win, nothing will fundamentally change. If they lose, then you will lose your right to vote for a Democrat again!”
That’s a shit platform that is doomed to fail. Democrats have been running on the platform of “we’re the last hope for democracy” for a generation as this point. And at some point people simply give up and decide, “well, democracy clearly ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, as neither side actually wants to help regular people.”
Sure but getting mad at your average apathetic willfully ignorant American is just a waste of energy, and if anything is just going to make them ignore politics even more.
Sure but getting mad at your average apathetic willfully ignorant American is just a waste of energy
They deserve the blame, and they are what needs to be addressed as a fundamental issue. Anger is irrelevant, though I certainly have plenty of anger for them.
I’m not here praying day-and-night for any party to give good candidates against fascism every election from now on, forever. I’m not here saying we need to be reliant on a party aristocracy to bless us with good leaders. That’s not what democracies are founded on. I’m here interested in seeing an electorate that doesn’t allow fascism to become viable in the first place.
It’s on us. The people. We voted, and refrained from voting, for this. Fuck the Dems, fuck the party elite, fuck Harris and especially fuck Biden. But “bad candidate” or “bad campaign” or “bad strategy” misses the actual problem of “A SUPERMAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK FASCISM IS NO BIG DEAL”
and if anything is just going to make them ignore politics even more.
If we’re talking about the people who refused to vote even when a literal fascist was on the ticket, what exactly are we losing here from them “ignoring politics even more”? How much more can they ignore politics?
Apathetic voters are a loud and clear declaration of “I don’t care if the literal fascist wins” in this election, man.
Harris having a dogshit campaign doesn’t change that. Harris’s dogshit campaign condemns Harris, and her allies; but the victory of Trump condemns everyone who stood by and refused to do the least thing, a cast vote, to stop him.
Apathy is not an excuse. Apathy is exactly why they deserve condemnation. Anyone who is apathetic about fascism is not someone who deserves a milder rebuke than would otherwise be given. Apathy about fascism is a serious moral failing.
How can you run on a platform of democracy, when democracy has gotten the average American citizen jack shit?
“Vote for a Democrat. If Democrats win, nothing will fundamentally change. If they lose, then you will lose your right to vote for a Democrat again!”
That’s a shit platform that is doomed to fail. Democrats have been running on the platform of “we’re the last hope for democracy” for a generation as this point. And at some point people simply give up and decide, “well, democracy clearly ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, as neither side actually wants to help regular people.”
Jesus fucking Christ.
Sure but getting mad at your average apathetic willfully ignorant American is just a waste of energy, and if anything is just going to make them ignore politics even more.
They deserve the blame, and they are what needs to be addressed as a fundamental issue. Anger is irrelevant, though I certainly have plenty of anger for them.
I’m not here praying day-and-night for any party to give good candidates against fascism every election from now on, forever. I’m not here saying we need to be reliant on a party aristocracy to bless us with good leaders. That’s not what democracies are founded on. I’m here interested in seeing an electorate that doesn’t allow fascism to become viable in the first place.
It’s on us. The people. We voted, and refrained from voting, for this. Fuck the Dems, fuck the party elite, fuck Harris and especially fuck Biden. But “bad candidate” or “bad campaign” or “bad strategy” misses the actual problem of “A SUPERMAJORITY OF VOTERS THINK FASCISM IS NO BIG DEAL”
If we’re talking about the people who refused to vote even when a literal fascist was on the ticket, what exactly are we losing here from them “ignoring politics even more”? How much more can they ignore politics?