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And it's the people's responsibility to vote.
Both failed. I definitely blame the losers who didn't show up as much as anyone else, though.
You blame the poorest working class people and not the party that spent a billion on their campaign and still couldn't convince anyone they were worth voting for?
I blame both.
But yes, I blame the losers who couldn't be bothered to take the least amount of responsibility too.
I blame protest voters even more.
Jesus. Blame the fucking genocidaires and the billionaire kid fuckers instead
I blame them the most
Voting should be mandatory. I read about how other countries handle their elections and I notice that people in Australia and Brazil have far great satisfaction with their system. Part of it is they have laws that make voting easy and secure. Since voting is mandatory they receiving time off to vote.
Another advantage of making voting compulsory is it helps reduce conspiracy theories about people voting twice. Everyone knows that everyone gets one vote and they must use it.
Also jury duty which is also compulsory is much more of a burden than voting so if they can force you to do jury duty we can have everyone vote.
UBI paid out after you turn in your ballot.
Well keep in mind those "losers" might have a job that conflicts with their polling hours and have restrictive absentee ballots. It's much easier for, say, retirees to vote than working poor.
Because the Democrat Party pretty loudly told people who supported an end to Palestinian Apartheid that they did not want their support let alone their input. That they thought it was more important to court Liz Cheney and other Republicans and lock the Uncommitted delegates out of the convention despite exceeding their goals by 10 times to show that not listening on this issue had enough votes on the line to close the 2016 Clinton-Trump gap, let alone the 2020 Biden-Trump gap that it got over halfway to. The party said they wanted more support from lean Republican voters than the voters asking for a Democrat candidate who would speak out against genocide, and, even with record turnout in one of the main states for the issue, the there were more voters for Trump then either of his previous runs. But, yeah, blame the voters, they only turned out at the second highest rate since 1908 (with only the 2020 election being higher) and even Democrats had better turnout among the voter-eligible population that any of the second-place candidates since the 60s (and better turnout than more than half of presidents since then as well). If you're putting the onus on the relatively small proportion of non-voters instead of either the moderate showing of the Democrats, or, you know, the people that actually came out to vote for Trump, then you're not really focused on the issue.
I'm saying that everyone who didn't vote Harris is at fault. And very, very few people had a good reason not to.
It certainly a convenient place to lay the blame. Makes it real easy to tell flattering narratives. No need to examine what role the party has, since clearly they're doing what they must to get their candidate elected. Why should they carry any blame? They voted for Harris, after all! Surely, pouring millions of dollars into candidates that don't resonate with the people and that are unwilling to push the needle against the direction conservatives are pulling it has nothing to do with their consistent messaging that people should just settle for the options they're presenting the country with?
Clearly, the DNC has some serious misunderstanding of the electorate given their choices over the past quarter century. But something tells me they're gonna roll the dice on "we're your only option" again and act surprised when that wasn't enough to garner support rather than lukewarm acceptance. Maybe if they really hammer how little they'll do to offset the damage Republicans have done over the past half century and tell us that they just want to get back to "working across the aisle" on "business as usual", it'll actually work this time!
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I always show up to vote third party.