Honestly I agree with this take more than @TrickDacy@lemmy.world.

Some people get far too easily caught up in the issue of the day and lose sight of the bigger picture, and by the time they see the consequences of that it's far too late.

Like I was saying with the whole Israel thing. People got so worked up in refusing every DNC candidate who wasn't anti-Israel, that they seemingly entirely forgot about everything else on the board.

Ukraine? LGBTQ rights? Women's rights? Ethnic Minority rights? Climate Change reforms? Apparently the US' whole democratic system?

Was losing all that really all worth fighting up a losing battle over Israel?... Which arguably had an even worse outcome than it would've, entirely because of their fighting over it let the genocidal dictator wannbe win?

Its ironically not too disimilar to how the far right screws over their voterbase...

Get them riled up over some racist bigoted stance, then stab them in the back and tell them it was somebody else's fault while still holding the knife.

Theyre not unlike maga voters in that regard and they don't want to hear it.

When you wrap up your political decisions in your identity it is CRUSHING to admit you've been wrong.

I imagine they feel so pure not voting or voting third party or whatever and then the reality of that comes crashing in about February 1 or so.

I could forgive that if they at least don't make the same mistake twice.

Edit- witness the downvotes for saying this. Just confirmation I suppose.

That might be, but it's hard to believe many people would not see the result coming ahead of time. It's just not a believable concept to me that these folks really believed that anything could happen besides trump being more likely to win. The most generous I can be with them is that they didn't care what would happen.