I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    You compare voting to the laws of physics. They’re not even remotely similar. Politics is choice.

    A more apt compatison would be a little kid crying that he wants a chocolate ice cream, his mum says he should order that, then to be funny/petulant/assertive he orders strawberry - and gets mad at his mum when the server gives him strawberry. “It was your job to make me choose what I wanted!”, he wails.

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      2 hours ago

      Your comparison is worse.

      The options weren’t chocolate and vanilla. They were getting kicked down a steep hill or kicked off a cliff, and you seem flabbergasted that some people chose to flip the bird instead of groveling and thanking the democrats for only kicking them down a steep hill.

      Especially when in the next 4 years their options are gonna be slightly steeper hill or another cliff.