Do you seriously think that I believe protest voting/non-voting is a brand-new phenomenon and relegated to lemmy only? That it doesn’t happen every single election? That people don’t try and reason with them every single election? And then when they inevitably never listen- that people don’t try and warn them what will happen to those with brightly glowing bullseyes painted on them should they decide to pout and stay home?
Seriously? This your first time?
Because I’ve been here before. And a long time ago, I was on the other side of this. Luckily, I grew up when I saw the consequences of my entitlement. Thankfully for me, it was during a time when I was afforded the luxury of things not being like they are today. So the consequences of my stupidity weren’t as severe and I didn’t have to live with the idea that I hurt anyone with my selfishness.
Now… people are going to die because somehow, these idiots got it in their head that perfect is the opposite of “but I don’t like it!”
Lastly… I hope they’re proud of themselves, because what is happening now? Yeah… he isn’t even in the warm-up phase of what he’s about to do to us. So maybe go on and tell them they should take their bow now while there’s still people remaining that are ignorant enough to think that somehow- they’ve managed to do something by doing nothing.
I think we can agree to disagree and end this here as I don’t see any ground being moved from this.
You’re free to blame individual voters, but like you said they’ll always be with us in every election. Continuing to blame them will not change a damn thing.
I’d rather blame the political consultants who were paid a billion dollars and didn’t move the damn needle. If there’s always going to be protest voters, maybe the people whose job is to get people to vote should be blamed for the loss instead.
Civics education is terrible in this country, but the people who have advanced political science degrees should be able to win elections, right?
I’d rather blame non-voters and idiots that voted for third party spoilers that they knew had no chance to win because they’re upset about something that happened that they barely understand, in a place they didn’t know existed a year ago.
You do you though. It’s still a free country for now.
Do you seriously think that I believe protest voting/non-voting is a brand-new phenomenon and relegated to lemmy only? That it doesn’t happen every single election? That people don’t try and reason with them every single election? And then when they inevitably never listen- that people don’t try and warn them what will happen to those with brightly glowing bullseyes painted on them should they decide to pout and stay home?
Seriously? This your first time?
Because I’ve been here before. And a long time ago, I was on the other side of this. Luckily, I grew up when I saw the consequences of my entitlement. Thankfully for me, it was during a time when I was afforded the luxury of things not being like they are today. So the consequences of my stupidity weren’t as severe and I didn’t have to live with the idea that I hurt anyone with my selfishness.
Now… people are going to die because somehow, these idiots got it in their head that perfect is the opposite of “but I don’t like it!”
Lastly… I hope they’re proud of themselves, because what is happening now? Yeah… he isn’t even in the warm-up phase of what he’s about to do to us. So maybe go on and tell them they should take their bow now while there’s still people remaining that are ignorant enough to think that somehow- they’ve managed to do something by doing nothing.
I think we can agree to disagree and end this here as I don’t see any ground being moved from this.
You’re free to blame individual voters, but like you said they’ll always be with us in every election. Continuing to blame them will not change a damn thing.
I’d rather blame the political consultants who were paid a billion dollars and didn’t move the damn needle. If there’s always going to be protest voters, maybe the people whose job is to get people to vote should be blamed for the loss instead.
Civics education is terrible in this country, but the people who have advanced political science degrees should be able to win elections, right?
I’d rather blame non-voters and idiots that voted for third party spoilers that they knew had no chance to win because they’re upset about something that happened that they barely understand, in a place they didn’t know existed a year ago.
You do you though. It’s still a free country for now.