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I Want to Give Up (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

but ultimately the responsibility is on the voters to be competent, critical thinkers that at least attempt to be informed.

I disagree, it's a politicians job during a campaign to convince people to vote for them. I agree that voters should be informed, but if someone chooses not to vote, I view that as a failure of the candidate, not the voter.

You have the right to vote, you don't have the obligation (some countries do, and I wish we did, but we do not). And no candidate is entitled to a vote simply for existing.

Beyond that... Yeah, you and I are basically on the same page. I appreciate that you've been civil about this, and I want to reiterate: I do believe the Democrats are the lesser of two evils, by a long shot. I do believe they should have gotten more support, and I really wish they had turned out the vote.

But they didn't, and I don't think it's fair to blame apathetic voters when the worst option was "fascism," but the lesser evil was "status quo that you're drowning under, with a touch of genocide." Trump supporters? Yeah, they're... Everything they want the world to believe they are, they have no excuse for gladly marching into fascism.

But I don't blame apathetic voters for not wanting to participate in a system they don't feel represented in, and aren't inspired by either candidate to vote in.