• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    15 hours ago

    If all of the people who stayed home would have been kamala voters then it sounds like she failed to inspire them to vote. It sounds like she lost an election.

    Yes, if an unprecedented, impossible turnout occurred then dems might’ve won, but that’s not actually a strategy, that’s fantasy. Assuming there isn’t some level of divine intervention, then people are right that their vote doesn’t matter, because this is the real world where we already know a plurality of people don’t vote.

    It’s almost like voter disenfranchisement works.

    I don’t know why liberals can’t get this basic concept: if electoralism is meaningful at all, then the electorate cannot be wrong.

    If the electorate voted “wrong” then your democracy doesn’t do what it claims to, it does not represent the people. <- this is actually the correct answer btw

    Blaming the electorate achieves nothing.

    The electorate didn’t fail the dems, the dems failed the electorate.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s almost like voter disenfranchisement works.

      It only “works” because the individual voter did not vote.

      Blaming the electorate achieves nothing.

      IMHO, it achieves a lot more than voting 3rd party.

      The electorate didn’t fail the dems, the dems failed the electorate.

      The electorate failed themselves. They listened to Russian propaganda about Kamla killing babies in Palestine. They fell for republicans fantasies of red strongholds so tough that Democrats shouldn’t even bother voting. They fell for the general apathy about their choice sown by foreign assets and transmitted like a fucking online mind virus.

      All I can say is; They may not have voted for trump, but they definitely voted for this.

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        8 hours ago

        You live in a different universe where talk matters more than actions and individual voters have more power than the systems and people that consistently screw them over.

        That’s not a gap I can bridge.