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- flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Alt title: Have they tried calling their Representatives tho?
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I think it’s more that the Epstein files are gettingore.coverage than the destruction of our faux democracy
As far as I know, nobody cares about democracy.
certainly not enough to do anything about it
I think the idea is people are stupid enough to think that if somehow it’s proven that Trump did even more awful things his followers would wake up and realize that he is awful, I just don’t see that happening.
So the problem with this line of thinking is seeing it as binary. What actually happens in cases of cults is that some split off, and the remainder are more fanatic than ever. For examples, see the Great Disappointment of the Adventists, or 1975 predictions with Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The trouble that MAGA has is that it doesn’t take many to split off before they’re no longer a meaningful political force. Over the last six months, both Democrats and Republicans have been getting phone calls of death threats if they don’t do everything Trump wants. Members of congress have made certain decisions because of this. That is going away.
Golly gee, if only some group had noted that we needed all hands on deck to prevent the fascists from being installed into power and destroying democracy before all this came down.
Luckily, many brave souls took it upon themselves to campaign that voting Dem was unconscionable under any circumstances. Thanks, guys!
Any number of murdered minorities is worth Teaching the DNC A Lesson™, after all.
Proof that people abstaining from voting dem resulted in trump winning?
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling
2020 Biden voters abstaining in 2024 on the Palestine issue alone were larger than the 2024 margin of defeat.
Which swing states is this true for?
It isn’t going to matter: The genocide in Israel became simultaneously an issue large enough to decide an election and yet small enough to ignore as a political issue.
The argumentation swings both ways as needed.
How ironic considering that the entire argument you continually put forward is that the genocide in Israel is simultaneously an issue large enough to decide an election, yet small enough to evade any responsibility for deciding an election.
Of course, I’m not sure what else should be expected from someone who plays apologist for Ukrainian genocide while pretending to decry Palestinian genocide.
The issue was always large enough to impact the election by causing low turnout and abstention across the electorate.
The protest and third party voters, who turned out and did not abstain, were small enough not to decide the election.
This isn’t rocket surgery like hating waffles.
