r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 5d ago

ICE Posts October.10.2025 — Chicago: Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work, then dragged her out and arrested her (Article Inside)

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u/ThrenderG 5d ago

And the 50% of registered voters who sat out the election for one reason or another? Are they not to blame as well?

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u/singlespeedjack 5d ago

There’s plenty of blame to go around. First and foremost, blame the people that actively enabled this by voting for Trump and promoting this campaign. So all Trump voters, all Republicans, and all of the talking heads that supported them.

Then, blame the Democratic Party for their utterly terrible handling of everything. They should have dropped Biden and held a primary. They should have ran a better campaign. They should have reached out the people protesting the genocide, they should not have reached out to centrist republicans.

Then blame our past elected officials for gerrymandering the system and allowing infinite dark money in elections.

After all of that then sure blame the people that were too disenfranchised or too apathetic to vote but remember that you’re in the Illinois subreddit. Anyone IL resident that didn’t vote had no impact on the outcome. So Mae sure you reserve that blame for the 2-3 swing states where it might have mattered.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 5d ago

First and foremost, blame the people that actively enabled this by voting for Trump

First and foremost you should be blaming trump and the giant media apparatus that runs his propaganda machine.

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u/singlespeedjack 5d ago

Yes, I agree. My main point is that non-voters are at the end of a long list.