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So the article--which I'm sure EVERYONE READ--only discusses a knee jerk retort to a heckler which I guess blames non voters but it doesn't read like that.
I don't like Kamala as a candidate, I don't like the DNC (still fuck You DWS for torpedoing Bernie), but multiple things can be true at the same time. D should have candidates that are better, and a left candidate (who wouldn't even really fit in the party) would be nice. This is still a hardcore Murc's law situation: Trump is and was a known quantity and more people than just D had responsibility to avoid term 2 / get any accountability for term 1. By all means teach the DNC a lesson, but the cure is definitely worse than the disease for the presidency. (Maybe people should have left their couches and Lemmy earlier to BE the good candidates instead of complaining no one good enough was served to them?)
Having trump IS a result of no one else getting enough votes, that IS a result of people not voting. Sure we can argue for deontological voting and the duty of each vote and the value of not supporting genocide / the liberal establishment. However, teleologically speaking, all roads not leading to Harris led to trump. No way that would have been worse than this no matter what lipstick you put on it.
I am gonna be bitter forever that we got 47 because of people who knew what was coming and let it happen anyway, then sniff their own farts about it on the internet. Have the day you voted for in 2025 is a clever meme to post. Have the day you voted for or didn't vote at all for is even more apt. This is the cost you decided we should all pay to stick it to the DNC if you intentionally didn't vote, remember that. I hope it's worth it in 2028.