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Holy goddamn, really?
Yes, one vote doesn't change anything, especially not in a country of 300 million.
But getting a lot of people to vote does change things.
If you're actually so childish as to believe "well, I voted so everything should be fixed", holy damn, adulthood is going to be difficult.
Not getting your way even though you cast a vote is normal. Not getting our way when progressives outvote the moderates, well, that'd be a different story but so far it hasn't happened because we don't show up in sufficient numbers to win.
What was the purpose of this thread? To shout at anyone who complains about anything ever with "well why didn't you vote?", as if none of us did?
Frankly, I've seen a lot of stupid "the Dems are evil too" nonsense here, I've seen a lot of complaints about the parties being the same and other nonsense.
The point of this meme and thread is to remind people that the choice between Harris and trump is entirely because the progressive wing doesn't show up to vote in the primaries while the moderates do. Some do vote but not enough. And frankly, if you break it down by demographic, it's the youth/young middle age that don't show up and get crushed by the elderly who vote.
BUT amidst all the complaints, I never see anyone say "damn, if only more of us had voted in the primaries." And if we had, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Far from it. There are a lot more factors at play that prop our two party system up, and allow the people in power in those parties to put their thumb on the scale in order to favor their candidates.