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It’s the people’s responsibility to go out and vote. It doesn’t take much time to look up each candidate. If you have the slightest preference for one candidate, then go out and vote! No need to be glued at politics to do this.
If you don’t want to take this responsibility, fine, but then don’t complain that you don’t like the result.
The perspective that your just outlined lost this election. Do you want to beat fascism? If so you have to gain the interest of people who didn't come out in this election. If the stakes are really that high are you gonna lecture people or appeal to them?
That’s like the same energy of
“Do you want pizza or lasagna?”
“I don’t care. Pick whatever”
“Ok I got lasagna for you then”
“No I don’t want lasagna. I want pizza! Why didn’t you try harder to make me choose pizza?”
American people are responsible for voting for Trump. Not the Democratic Party.
It's not really like that at all. Kinda the opposite.
"We would love you to pick up pizza for dinner"
"I generally don't eat out"
"If you don't pick up pizza, someone will get lasagna delivered"
"That's fine. I don't really care"
"WHY DIDNT YOU GET US PIZZA?! NOW WE ONLY HAVE LASAGNE!!"
If the dems wanted them to go out and pick pizza, they could've worked harder to do that. The people that didn't vote legitimately do not care. The dems needed to give them a reason to care and they didn't. Is it unfortunate that stopping fascism isn't a good enough reason? Yes. Did we know that was going to be the case the whole time? Yes. The dems strategy was bad, and people will suffer because of it. The people who didn't vote will continue to be apathetic.
Maybe you’re right that many are truly apathetic about the situation. For me as a non American it’s just baffling that so many don’t use their privilege to vote. The default attitude should be to vote unless you truly feel your vote doesn’t matter.
It’s also difficult for me to grasp that, when given the option between a party whose policy is to defend the current status quo, and a party whose policy is fascism, the attitude is “meh, whatever”. Most people should have an opinion regarding this.
Not all elections need to be about new exciting changes. Boring is also an option.
Or maybe status quo is so bad people don’t care if it’s replaced by fascism. If that’s the case, then I agree it’s fully DNCs responsibility for the failure.