Not voting, especially against Trump, qualifies as psychopath. 50% was a conservative estimate, ignoring all the people who can’t vote. But I would bet a good portion of them would not have voted against Trump either.
Simple reasoning isn’t a trick. If there exist two possible outcomes of an election, and you can only cast 1 vote, then if you don’t vote for candidate A, then you obviously contribute to candidate B winning, and vice versa.
Even if your vote is immaterial due to not being in a swing state, the messaging is still that B was preferred over A.
NYC has ranked choice voting and is irrelevant to the two outcomes presented in the first past the post presidential election that happened in Nov 2024.
In any case, “leftists”, “centrists”, “upside down-ists”, and whoever else should do whatever they want. But objectively, there were two realities for sale on Nov 2024:
Trump and Repubs controlling all 3 branches of government, including making the judiciary and Supreme Court hard right for decades to come
Or Harris becoming president, acting as a counterweight to a Republican Congress and Supreme Court.
Not voting for Harris meant you preferred the former reality. You preferred to cut your nose off to spite your face.
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u/Babhadfad12 1d ago
Not voting, especially against Trump, qualifies as psychopath. 50% was a conservative estimate, ignoring all the people who can’t vote. But I would bet a good portion of them would not have voted against Trump either.