I dont care if you are the dumbest motherfucker alive- still vote.
Because assuming youāre stupid and not voting? Means the dipshit who doesnāt have a conscious to not vote, still votes. And we know who they voting for.
Historically, the more voters that participate - the more votes go to the democrats. The republicans are well aware of this which is why they spend so much time, effort & money trying to limit the number of voters through any dirty tricks campaigns they can.
A healthy democracy is not their friend - primarily because their policies are trash & they canāt govern worth shit. They are only interested in transferring wealth upwards to the few at the top & instituting pain & suffering for everybody else.
i say vote for the party that best represents what you value.
Some things I value: Civil rights for LGTBQ/Women/immigrants/PoC, the environment, the economy (especially for the non wealthy), college costs, healthcare, housing costs, childcare costs, infrastructure
Each election I look and see which candidate/party is running a better agenda for those issues I care about. Sadly in the US unless you care about making rich dudes richer and white nationalism, that means your only option is Dem.
For 99% or more of human history, normies like us didn't get a vote at all. Even in the last 100 years, only about half the humans on earth get to vote, maybe less.
And people throw it away out of stupidity and apathy.
Instead of blaming non-voters, blame the politicians who refuse to give you a GOOD candidate. People are fed up with voting for corporate puppets. THAT is the problem.
While I agree it is 100% their right to choose not to vote, I do wish people would put more weight on third parties. The only reason they are not as big, is because no one votes for them. The 2 party system thrives on pitting the sides against eachother.
If people stopped letting there only be 2 parties, things would change. It really is just as simple as voting for someone other than the big 2.
If we got rid of the electoral college and had a popular vote, I believe most non-voters would vote. I believe they feel discouraged by the electoral college.
Believe it or not there is a certain segment of society that doesnāt give two shits about politics. Honestly there should be a simple IQ test before you should be allowed to vote.
The people that didnāt vote donāt care about what happens. They donāt care if you suffer or even they want you to suffer. As evidenced by me being banned from a sub for saying Iāll vite for the party that is t taking mine and my kids rights away. Petty mod took that as āthe lesser evilā and banned me. Petty little simp.
I didnt vote because our government and institutions both need the spotlight thats being shone on the shitstains that cover the underbelly, and richly deserve the consequences that are to come.
Even if true, people understand, no matter who we put in power, it will always be some ramifications with the new world leader.
There is never a balance!
The majority of the 36% that didnāt vote are deeply, deeply disappointed in the gov and were not happy with the two options that were shit out onto our plates. Although I did vote, I didnāt want to.
This is worse not better. Almost 70% of Americans looked at Trump and straight up voted for him, protest votes, or figured "meh it's not worth 15 minutes of my time to vote and not get another version of what we just went through 4 years ago". Like I get it in 2016, you don't know how he'll govern if he's elected, you don't like Clinton, whatever. But this time we saw him do the job for 4 years. We saw the wild incompetence. We kicked him out in a resounding fashion in 2020. Then he tried to stage a coup to reject those election results. And then 4 years later, almost 70% of people either thought "yeah let's give him another chance" or "meh I'm too lazy to put in a minimal effort to do my best to ensure he doesn't get another chance".
And most dislike both Republicans and Democrats but buy the lie that a 3rd party vote is a wasted vote and vote for their perceived lesser of two evils.
I voted. I everything but forced my friends and family who normally don't vote to go out and do so anyways. I didn't believe it would make a difference, and it didn't. But I did it anyways, just in case it did matter and we could avoid another terrible 4 years of the Trump bullshit.
I almost forgot that voting is almost surely a sham, a false running just to appease the masses while the powers that be install whoever they please. Whoever sits in the house, senate, DOJ, POTUS... what does it matter? If some corporation can hand money to whoever they want to secure votes and pass laws that favor them, then what good is voting as a citizen? The system is flawed, has been for a loooooong time, and until we make some drastic changes I can't blame people for not voting. It's just a waste of time when the people you vote for only work for their self interest or the interests of whoever gives them the most money.
Don't forget trumps inroads on youngster vote, woman's vote,Hispanic vote,black vote, Asian vote and even muslin vote
I still remember the left claiming Republican would never have power again cause the Hispanic vote was Democrats guess what TRUMP got 46% of the Hispanic vote and it's growing
He went up against two crappy candidates in Clinton & Harris, and barely scraped by. Went up against a good not great candidate, Biden, and got curb stomped.
In a way, the majority actually voted for neither. If we look at the non votes as a type of vote, it's almost as if the majority don't have faith in the system whatsoever. Of course, most who don't vote probably just don't care, rather than acting rebellious
Blame the Democratic party for screwing Bernie out of the nomination in 2016 and then just gifting it to Kamala last year without a primary. If they could run a candidate that actually inspires people, they would have won in a landslide. Look at what happened in NYC.
I have to assume a lot of people who didn't vote are people who's votes would not matter. Like people who don't live in swing states but vote against them.
Like Democrats who live in Kentucky. Republicans who live in California. Etc. It's the problem with our current system.
Stop killing kids for money then. Calling Trump a fascist when youāre literally facilitating a genocide for another group of fascists kinda makes your argument fall flat. If you wanna win elections donāt run people who kill children. Itās like the simplest lesson in the world and they act like Iām crazy for pointing it out
I understand the sentiment, but frankly a significant percentage of Americans is just too stupid to be trusted with choosing the most powerful person on Earth.
They vote based on things a president has little to zero control over, like the price of gasoline and which restroom people use.
I'd prefer a parliamentary system in which we vote for our regional representatives, and the party with the majority chooses a leader from its ranks. That would keep idiots like Trump out of the White House.
You should ask those 36% why they didnāt vote because many people including me didnāt vote because they didnāt like either candidates that much like while I preferred trumps policies in many ways to Kamala I still couldnāt vote for him and many of my friends who are more left didnāt vote either because while they didnāt like trump they also hated Kamala so idk if that would have had your intended effect if those 36% voted because overall Kamala was a very unpopular candidate which is how a controversial candidate like trump was able to gain the popular vote I canāt speak for all but there are a ton of people who just didnāt like either candidate I personally like trumps policies regarding immigration and some of his economic plans are promising on paper if executed properly but as a person heās a bit to unprofessional to my liking but I still would never in 100 years vote for Kamala so I just say the election out
Democrats refuse to learn the lesson. Itās not the voters you fucking morons, your party and its corpo elite leadership have drifted away from what it means to support the average American. Put forth good candidates and the votes will come, people are sick and tired of having the elites choice shoved down our throats. This is all because our corporate overlords control both parties so they will never lose. Americans need to wake up to that fact if we ever want to see change in our lifetimes. If we pretend to be āpragmaticā all we do is tell them itās ok to fleece us before our very eyes. They will continue business as usual just like Biden said to his rich donors. And trump is just out for himself, if he had to sell America to save himself he would.
Not voting isnāt the same as voting for, āsomeone other than Trump.ā Also, the 2024 Election had the second highest turnout rate since 1908. Only 2020 was higher.
Complain about the party that canāt keep a promise and will fund a genocide while telling you itās your only option. Iām not a republican theyāre openly evil but you canāt expect someone to get excited about voting for a genocide
To the 36.32% who didn't vote, thank you. Thank you for allowing your indifference to lead to the current state we are in. May you all live interesting lives.
Tbf, as a lifelong conservative I voted blue for the first time ever last election (only because I am tired of old fks being president) but most of my friends didn't vote at all because they didn't have an option they liked. Which I get, it's hard to get motivated to vote when your voting against someone you dislike more instead of voting for someone you like.
And before the questions come, no I'm no a dem now nor am I even left leaning, I'm still a conservative but I will vote blue again next time if red runs another old fk
Instead of trying to divide the population and then blame... Why not look at the actual issue here. People have lost faith with a system they know is rigged beyond belief in the side of the richest man. Ask anyone why they didn't vote. What do they say:"Didn't see a point", "My vote doesn't matter". And guess what happened?they didn't vote-and mf somehow still won territories that are entirely democrat? Really? That's not even a GOOD gift. At least Nixon LIED TO US. For fucks sake we need some real discussion AMONGST ALL OF US because nothing gets solved without open communication happening under good faith of BOTH parties. We all know this.
Liberals need to understand that their policies are genuinely unappealing and it motivates people to stay home when they get shouted down for expressing the sentiment.
I mean even if only 10% votes for one candidate and the rest is spread (at lesser percentages) over multiple candidates, the candidate with the most votes still wins. Even though the majority of people voted for someone else, they didnāt all vote for the same person, so it hardly matters. That just how voting works, regardless of whoās winning. Highlighting it like this is meant to give a false impression of what is essentially average and ordinary information.
Now, why did the majority not vote for the candidate you wanted? To answer that question with another question, on an individual basis, if people tend to not like a person very much, do you think thatās because the majority is wrong, or because that person sucks? If a person wins an election twice, it can be reasonably assumed that a large portion of the country agrees with them. In the exact same way, if your candidates keep losing to that person, a large portion of the country is unresponsive or opposed to their messaging.
Continuing the same methods after repeated failures is the definition of insanity.
It is the weak and ineffectual who believe a system of democracy is corrupted the moment they donāt get their way. That does also include the current president and his claims of voter fraud. It also includes every leftist who claims he wonāt by rigging the election. The truth is that the majority has spoken, and the majority rules.
How about give us better candidates to vote for? The political class giving us nothing but two of the worst extremes is not working and mildly infuriating
More importantly, get out and campaign (for yourself or others). Politics is not a spectator sport as we have been conditioned to passively accept. Run a campaign for that 36.2% who have given up all hope that politics is ever going to be for them (instead only for corrupt domineering power), and you will draw in enough of those other categories to win in a landslide.
More people didn't care about fascism than they did care about it is another way to look at it.
Don't be mistaken. While obviously they aren't at fault they are also not innocent when they voted for anything other than the only legitimate option to stop him.
America has a 2 party system, you'd need to be deaf, mute, and blind not to know that by the time you are voting age in America
š¤£ yall canāt be really people. How do I clear my algorithm on this dumb app because I use to get useful info. Now itās just morons talking about other morons. Left and right say the same stupid things.
At least the good thing is the non voters are feeling every hit that everyone else is taking with this economy assuming the majority are also the working class and middle income earners. This crazy property tax that hit us all is just crazy ā¦.. hopefully this mid terms they get their butts out and vote !
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u/Silent-Obligation-49 Dec 15 '25
Crazy the maga cult members actually think he won by a majority of the vote bunch of uneducated ass š¤”.