I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

    Give them something to vote for. You can write articles of many paragraphs to analyze the course of the election, but in the end it boils down to this: The DNC pissed off too many of their voters and offered nothing in return.

    • @finitebanjo
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      The DNC platform was free medicine, money out of politics, and taxing the rich.

      If they could have resurrected a Unicorn live on stage and it could have magically cured cancer in the radius as thanks: people would still be shitting on them all over the internet.

    • @Death__BySnuSnu
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      Exactly this! You can’t just “lesser of two evils” your way through life as you slide towards hell. “Lesser of two evils” isn’t a choice, it’s a hostage situation.

      • bountygiver [any]
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        22 hours ago

        Choosing the bigger evil ain’t the way out of it though. Unless you are an accelerationist that believes things have to get worse before it can get better.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2510 hours ago

      Yeah. No matter how I look at it, this seems to be the only real solution that would have helped.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think they offered more than most people see on social media. Their messaging isn’t great and I’ve seen a lot more left-leaning youtube channels talk about them but not outside of that.

      Then again, I’m also not American so I don’t know.

      Lastly, the non-voters are as much to blame in my opinion. If you didn’t know you should have voted, that’s on you.

      • @SoftestSapphic
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        34 hours ago

        Giving subisidies to green energy companies and improving the GDP doesn’t tangibly improve people’s lives in 4 years and that’s what people wanted.

        • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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          23 hours ago

          It also takes longer than 4 years to rebound everyone out of the spiral Trump left the nation in. I think messaging around realistic goals and checkpoints could go a very long way to allowing people to understand no President is going to save everyone in a single term, or probably in 2 terms, especially if they have a crater to climb out of just to start at zero. Real change is a long term goal, it would take multiple administrations working towards a goal.

          • @SoftestSapphic
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            Americans are not educated enough to understand any of that.

            They’re hurting finantially, so they get mad and vote out the incumbent.

            Democrats push policy like the avg american went to their ivy league schools.