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"Never blame the politicians for fielding a candidate that many would be unable to bring themselves to vote for due to her support of mass child murder, blame instead the people who can't bring themselves to vote for a supporter of mass child murder"
-- This posts and other DNC propaganda posts like it.
If one didn't support the opposition, then they're implicitly in support of who ends up in power.
Sadly our votes are one of the few things we have as normies that give us power, what you do and don't do with it is important. Even if in your jurisdiction you see both (or more) candidates as being bad, there is always a lesser evil.
That would only be correct if the voting system was not cyclical.
In reality that's not the case: today's vote results help shape which candidates are made available to voters the next time around, the one after that and so on.
So can be perfectly reasonable to look at the options put forward today and decide to not vote in order try and have better options available tomorrow - it's the logic of trying to preempt a tomorrow were all choices are both worse than today's worst option.
Mind you, this is not me saying that with Trump as one of the candidates doing so was the best possible choice - just explaining how it's actually a logical choice if one thought Trump was not the danger he turned out to be.
I suspect that if in the last 3 decades most people had been thinking and chosing in the way I suggest rather than falling for the deceitful simplification that each time they vote they must chose the "lesser evil", the situation were both the Democrats and the Republicans fielded Genocide supporting candidates would never have happenned since at least the Democrats would have long ago and repeateadly been punished for fielding ever more rightwing candidates and thus never arrived at a situation were their candidate was so far to the right that they support the modern day version of Nazis doing their own Genocide as long as the consequences are kept abroad.
It's because of such mechanics and decades of too many people falling for the DNC propaganda about the obligation to vote lesser evil, that America moved more and more towards the poverty riddled Fascism shithole that it is today - somebody like Trump as POTUS was always bound to happen when the leftmost party of the Money uber-alles + Political duopoly system in the US found a way to not be punished for keeping on moving ever more to the right and even now there's really no way this trend will stop (much less revert) until the top power of the land - Money - actually suffers for the country being too rightwing (which, curiously, might happen due to Trump, though the risk is the Republicans just replace him with a more intelligent Fascist).
Harris could have won without changing a single position on anything.
All she had to do was stop listening to anyone who worked for the Clintons, and run her mouth on whatever was on her mind. Any issue, just be fucking real about it. She couldn't/didn't do it.
Everything Mr Trump says is some shade of a lie, but it appears true in the moment in the way that sociopaths can pass a lie detector exam. They do not betray themselves with microexpressions when they lie.
And thus he appeared genuine despite uttering nothing but bald-faced lies and she appeared to be hiding something when she was being careful and campaigning like it was still the Obama Era. It was not and he won because of it.
It's incredible that peoples' minds are so colonized that their first instinct is to blame voters instead of party leadership that shut down all discussion of Biden's declining health, undemocratically anointed a wildly unpopular successor and then failed to listen to voters who were saying that supporting an ongoing genocide was a bridge too far.
Trying to explain to Americans that the fact they don't Primary Challenge incumbent democrats is a massive part of the problem; is tiresome.
American "democracy" in summary
But vote blue no matter who, do you trump to win, whatever they say that is bullshit. Never mind the Democrats leadership and neo-liberal majority have shown they're just controlled opposition at this point. They don't make real change, and I bet when it's all said and done, if they get into power, will still reach across the fricking aisle.
Hmmm yes, it is the victims of genocide who are smug. Big brain thinks from the humble liberal.
May be she should have, instead of being silent pos and hence complicit in genocide, just like Trump and Biden and many European leaders.
She wasn't silent, she openly supported Israel.
I really think the left were the canary in the coal mine with this entire Israel issue. I personally know people who didn't give a fuck about Gaza during the election, who are now really wondering why shit is the way it is, who are slowly realizing (in their own ways) how it's all connected.
My default assumption is that whenever there's a widespread youth protest movement focused on improving rights or human safety, most of the time those kids are on the right side of history.
Not necessarily the left, but I've always called trans and disabled people a canary in the coalmine for fascism. We're always among the first groups they come for
Enabling netanyahus best buddy to become president was not a smart move.
