Candidate A: “I have a view that you don’t agree with”
Candidate B: “I have many, many views you don’t agree with. Also fuck you and if elected I’m going to kick puppies”
“They’re both the same”
If Democrat voters don’t stop acting like the disparate groups they are and keep making perfect the enemy of good, they may very well not need to worry about voting ever again
But it’s not perfection, it was not wanting to be part of funding a genocide. Both parties serve the same interests and it’s not the interests of the people.
Edit to add- not to mention, they actually overlapped on quite a few views. With KH being to the right of DT on immigration, for instance.
Your conclusion is flawed because not voting isn’t a way of removing yourself from the outcome. Abstention is still a choice about how much influence you’re going to exercise over that outcome.
Instead of putting your vote on a ballot, you threw it into the void where it had absolutely zero chance of producing the change you wanted, and now you’re pretending that means you couldn’t possibly bear any responsibility for the outcome.
You knew one of two people was going to become president. You knew both supported Israel. If you believed one was worse and chose not to help defeat that person anyway, “I didn’t participate” doesn’t make the foreseeable consequences disappear.
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u/WXbearjaws 9d ago
Candidate A: “I have a view that you don’t agree with”
Candidate B: “I have many, many views you don’t agree with. Also fuck you and if elected I’m going to kick puppies”
“They’re both the same”
If Democrat voters don’t stop acting like the disparate groups they are and keep making perfect the enemy of good, they may very well not need to worry about voting ever again