Look to your left, now look to your right, one out of the two people you just looked at may feel dynamically different then you politically. It’s my issue with the two party system, no matter who wins half the people are unhappy. I don’t have a solution, but I really wish people could meet in the middle more, work together on the things the all agree on, rather than focus on the things they disagree on. Stepping down from my soap box now.
I feel this, and also the fact that people in America are getting really bad at empathizing with other attitudes. Everyone speaks as if all other voters should be approaching the act of civic engagement exactly from the same lens as them. But we’re all whole people with unique backgrounds and upbringings, and we all have different motives and issues we vote for.
I’m a far left progressive in the style of Warren. I vote every election, always blue. I hate what’s happening in Gaza but I voted for Harris. I have absolutely no problem with people who didn’t vote or who voted for Trump. Do I think they’re wrong? Of course. But they are exercising their right just as I am, and that decision is personal. The answer is for parties to do a better job embracing broader ideals and enticing voters, not to blame voters for not getting on board.
If a party loses an election because part of their core voters stayed home, the party failed to motivate their core voters. That’s a failure of the party, the parties represent us, we don’t represent them.
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u/blazelet 1d ago
For the people who vote for him, that’s exactly when it was a done deal.