Sure it does. Same way you shame bad parts of society. Non voters deserve blame and shaming. Ignoring their abdication of civic duty just entrenches their bad behavior by excusing it.

Down voted for the truth.

Say it with me- fuck nonvoters.

Pssh. I mean, I voted. I did my part. Millions others though didn’t.

I don’t why lemmy people find it so hard to not blame the DNC and actually blame the people who either voted for fascism or did nothing to stop it. Maybe because some of them are the very same as the latter.

Im not sure un American really qualifies anymore. This is America apparently.

Yeah a lot of people blaming Biden when we all had a fair shot at voting against fascism. We suck. May as well actually accept that.

That poster basically lambasts Biden all the time. It’s their whole schtick

Yep. Non voters asked for this, whether they realize it or not. Hope they enjoy the shit sandwich

Now this I agree on. They don’t dumb down the message nearly enough.

That’s entirely the media and rich people. How does that excuse people not voting for Bernie in 2020?

It makes perfect sense when you realize places like Missouri and Florida voted for abortion rights yet also voted for Republicans and trump all over too.

And again, there’s no big magical force keeping progressives out of winning primaries. They just don’t. So again, my point, either people aren’t that progressive or progressives fucking suck at voting. Either way, same result.

Moreover, we’ll use your metric of progressive policies winning over Harris and analyze why she won more over Bernie himself. Must mean people are more moderate right?

It is non-voters. Whether they’re left leaning or center or whatever really doesn’t matter. They’re going to get it one way or the other. They had a chance to drive the car more left but decided it wasn’t worth showing up so now it’s going full speed right wing back to the 50s and worse.

Congrats?

I mean, you’re basically making my point. People who don’t vote decide the election with their inaction. Whether it was not coming out for Bernie or not coming out for Kamala, it’s the same thing.

So yes, thank you for proving my point better than I could. I appreciate the assist.

Bonus- Bernie finished behind Kamala in Vermont. So let’s not act like progressivism is some silver bullet here.

Kind of a reverse Freedom Caucus. I could potentially see that working. Then again, people say AOC is no longer pure, etc. so I’m not sure progressives have the stomach to stick together long enough for that to work.

Which is normal politics. Why didn’t Warren and Bernie make a deal then?

Face it- if he can’t win a primary then that’s on him. And this is coming from someone who voted for him in 2020.

Point being- people need to stop acting like there is some mythical force stopping progressives. If they truly were that numerous then Bernie would’ve been elected as the candidate in 2020 (2016 I’ll give you the DNC fuckery.)

Moreover, they could elect AOCs all over the country too. But guess what- either they aren’t that numerous or they’re lazy as shit. Either way, you get “centrist” candidates like Biden. People seriously need to wake up and either start voting en masse in the primaries or realize that America is just not that progressive.

Who elected Bernie in 2020? Biden wiped the floor with him. Maybe more people should’ve voted for Bernie in the primary then.

No, blah blah blah, not prefect candidate, blah blah.

Can’t blame them for being lazy shitheads. Of course it’s someone else’s fault.

Bullshit. The DNC said nothing. Biden wiped the floor with every other candidate in that primary fair and square. Maybe blame the voters or rather the people who couldn’t be assed to come out.

This is surely going to lower the price of eggs.

Doesn’t matter. Our school funding model was found unconstitutional in 1997 and still has never been fixed.

Great job. Im sure that’ll work just like you want

Well that would require people to actually go vote every time instead of just bitching online. Or discouraging everyone from voting by saying someone is “Republican light”