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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

Right right, it's a neat graphic, but it kind of ignores people who remember multiple presidential elections.

If we vote Democrat and then the Democrats don't do jack s*** then what surprise is it that people stay home next time? Obama was weak. Biden was weak. They could have pushed policies that would benefit the average American citizen, and they mostly didn't. The party threw us away, not the other way around.

And I still think people should vote, but you don't get to blame them for the Democrats being s*****.

[–] wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

i voted for fetterman and he's more useless at resisting tyranny than a wet blanket

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm so tired of this. Obviously more people need to be more politically active, but there's a lot of issues occurring that we just don't talk about enough here.

Being politically active while being a responsible and well-informed voter takes time. The first without the other two is just how you make more Republican voters. When you consider how much a lot of people are working and the other struggles they're facing it really isn't surprising that a lot of people are not that informed or active. Let's also not pretend that one party doesn't go out of its way to make it more difficult for people to vote either.

Other the other side of the issue there's a myriad of issues that have made our current democrats less motivated to be an opposition party. Also, let me just point out that a party should never sit back and watch simply because they are not currently in full control of congress at the given moment. The Republicans have led by example on this repeatedly. Even when they aren't in control they continue to be aggressive, to be disruptive, to keep a media presence. Democrats can do this too. They need to.

This isn't to say that Democrats are completely to blame. There's a lot of shitty people in this country and there are people out there that can do a bit more than what they're doing to support the cause. This is just to say that Democrats share some responsibility and some of the burden here.

Also I just want to put this out there. I know people are scared, people are angry, people are upset, but the blame game isn't doing anyone any good. It is important to understand what went wrong, but spending all our time pointing fingers is simply wasting energy.

Holy shit, one thousand upvotes!

Thanks guys, I’d like to talk for a moment about something that’s important to me and that’s how to check if you’re registered to vote.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (18 children)

You can't berate people into voting the way you want. That is the lesson the DNC needs to learn if they actually want to win.

Social media trolls could do to realize that too.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 5 hours ago

Yeah. Obviously not all of America voted, and many of Biden's voters didn't show up for Harris. But of those who did vote, Trump fucking won. Trump didn't more votes, Democrats got less. Maybe they could learn a lesson about actually caring or even fucking pretending to care about people struggling to get by.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's a little disingenuous to describe the mood as "berating people into voting the way you want".

The US, the leader of the free world, is now a fascist dictatorship.

I'm very frustrated, worried, and angry. When discussing it with people who did not take action to avoid this outcome, it's very difficult for that frustration not to leak out.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

They literally did that though. See the Obamas shitting on black people who dont immediately have the impulse to vote for kamala.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

I didn't see that myself but I'll take your word for it.

Personally I wouldn't know how else to react to a black person who wasn't planning to vote for Kamala.

[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

People throw this terminology around too lightly. If you truly lived in a fascist dictatorship you wouldn't say a word about it as you and those around you would be taken off at gunpoint never to be seen again. Either deleted or placed in some labor camp until you expired.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

That's subjective.

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Well the Google results i saw say about 64% of eligible voters voted, which is apparently high for the US.

Based on 2020 numbers it does look like a lot of 2020 Biden voters stayed home and most 2020 Trump voters came out again. Add in some economy frustration and surprise we get this shit show for 4 years...

average turnout is 50% on a good day. 60%+ is high.

the question is what the breakout between registration and voters who actually voted looks like. I'd be a disproportionate amount of dems simply didn't vote.

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He's not going to stop at 4

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

then you can start a fucking civil war over it, it's literally the law, federally, and in most states.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

What do you mean when you say states? The states themselves have a law that says how many years a president may be president?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 4 hours ago

Right? Like

"Well, if you're not doing anything for me I'm withholding my vote!"

It doesn't register to anyone that Democrats can't do anything about Trump if they don't have the offices

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