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A 20 days old account named comrade commenting on a 11 days comment, cool.
Well, blaming citizens for actions that both parties would do is kinda pointless, yeah. This same logic can't be applied for policies exclusive to the red party, explicitly stated in the project 2025, can it?
Oh, so you do acknowledge that this election was on a level that endangered democracy for the US, given that you suggest that there might not be a next election. Well, yeah I'm pissed that the US citizens overall made their utmost effort to elect a tyrant soon to be dictator. I'm not even in the same continent and I'm scared of the implications of having such a leader in the global war machine.
As an addendum, I did not cry and blame no one, my comment was to show that actions have consequences and that the ones that abstain should also be held accountable for the results. Not voting sends the message that you don't care, so you better not care when things worsen.
One. I have a new account because my old account was on Lemmy Unchained which seems to not exist anymore. Secondly I am an anarchist, so don't insinuate that I am a Russian bot.
Two. America is on the track to fascism, voting Kamala wouldn't have stopped it, merely slowed it. Not even stall it for an election cycle, cause states have been moving towards fascism independent of the president.
Three. There are plenty of reasons why people would either abstain or vote third party. Boycotting the system, refusing to be complicit in genocide, losing faith in the system, not feeling safe to, etc. None of these are the voters fault. Nearly all are the DNC's fault for continuing their strategy of appealing to the right.
I insinuated nothing, after the election Russian bots dissapeared, I just found it funny.
If A slows fascism B accelerates it so... Letting B win means accelerating fascism.
Not voting doesn't boycott anything. It doesn't stop the system from functioning, its not like Spain where if a coalition doesn't get an absolute majority (including white voters which are distinct from non voters) a second elections needs to be held, where the simple majority can win. This two step system is the wake up call white voters have for parties while still having the chance to actually vote in the second cycle. Plus, if the result would be fascism, it makes a loot of non votes vote on the second cycle. In any case, in america there's no white voting or anything, it's all simple majority wins so not voting isn't gonna boicott shit, only helps winners.
If they don't have faith in the system and they think that whatever they vote nothing will matter, then they don't get to complain when the worse option accelerates fascism since they partially caused that acceleration.
If both parties would act the same in this particular genocide, no voting again does nothing in regard so participating in genocide or not, citizens will regardless keep participating since it's their money that's going regardless of A or B.
None of those factors are the voters fault, no, but they are at fault of thinking that not voting they are saying something useful because they aren't.
The DNC fucked up big time by not appealing to those voters for sure, but let's not skip the blame on those voters when america gets even less rights for the LGTB+ collective and women way faster that it was going. I'm sure as hell not ever visiting america if any of that stuff changes, it scares me to even be a turist there.