Just completely ignored the spelled put reason for all of this on your way to this comment huh?

Not voting does nothing but say that your opinions are not worth listening to.

That is the entirety of what that action says.

There is no other message that gets recieved.

Because under FPTP, there is no other message the Dems can afford to receive.

The math literally works out that you are either supporting them or that you are not, and that the best spent energy is on consistent voters who are able to be convinced, not on morons who think that saying maybe they'll vote this time if all of their demands are met by election day with a divided house and senate, swearzies.

To party planners this stunt you're pulling looks like nothing but Lucy with the football saying you swear you aren't gonna pull it away this time if they took a run at it like that really old guy did in '16 and '20 before being completely abandoned at the polls.

Dependability and consistency is what gets names on primary ballots that can make change.

You have to show up and do the bare minimum work, consistently, or you are mathematically not worth the trouble of trying to please.

The time to make this stand was in the primary season, and y'all told the democrats that being even low-key anti-genocode is nothing but running at Lucy's football yet again, after the most vocal members of the progressive flank about it all got knocked out in that stage of the election.

You had your chance to send the message and you fucking wasted it on the "none of the above" bullshit.

You literally saw the knife coming down on the people who were listening to you and instead of showing up for them you stood there and then scratched your head over why nobody's around who's listening to you anymore.

Fuck you.

You created the current crop of Dems that have to be convinced even harder now that pursuing a cease-fire is worth anything electorally, and the only reason that'll even be possible is a once in a century replacement of the candidate for head of the party.

I think the trick has been to give people a plausible narrative that makes them sound like the clever ones, standard power-play. People love that stuff, myself included, we're all vulnerable to it. It's why conspiracy theories work so well, but here, the same psychology is put to use rewarding people for saying stuff that's obviously morally bankrupt. I think it works the same way a peacock's tail works in evolution, the idea being that 'surely no one would say something so obviously awful unless they had a really very complicated and convincing reason'

It's allowed some of the decade's worst atrocities to go virtually unopposed.