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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep. And if both the moral abstainers and the third party protest voters all would have voted for Kamala, we would still have Trump as President because the numbers of those people are so small.

Y’all are blaming the people who care the most, when you should be blaming the billionaires.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Non voting has been the largest group for several cycles now.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That’s why I differentiated moral abstainers from apathetics who aren’t going to vote no matter what.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm becoming more apathetic. You're choosing between two evils. The lesser evil lives in the realm of myth these days.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Become a socialist instead, and work to remove systemic evil entirely.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The margins are close and we need to be able to reach people. Local, state, and federal elections.

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Because for a large number of people, they effectively do not live in a democracy. We've known for a long time that the opinions of the poorest 90% of the US population are completely irrelevant to national politics. Millions don't vote because they rationally realize that their votes are meaningless.