i can’t even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they’re not quiet now once they get called out

  • ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world
    1019·
    7 days ago

    You vote based on the choices you’re presented, not the ones you like. Like it or not a no vote is a vote one way or another.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      16·
      7 days ago

      Your comment highlights the tension between idealism and realism when it comes to voting.

      Ideally, everyone would vote based on the choices they’re given. But in the real world, human behavior is messy—especially in an electorate like America’s, where civic education is weak and collective action is a foreign concept to many. It’s not surprising that “lesser evil” voting and the idea of keeping a genocide on simmer failed to compel a minority of voters who chose to abstain.

      Do I blame nonvoters? Sure, to an extent—maybe 49%. But realism forces me to direct most of the blame at the Democratic Party, which has spent the last eight years repeatedly folding to Trump’s every authoritarian move. Until they address their own complicity, they’ll continue to bear the larger share of responsibility for this broken dynamic.