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You still don't get it.
It isn't about voting for Harris.
It's about voting against Trump.
You can give me all sorts of reasons why Harris wasn't an appealing candidate. It's not relevant. Trump was a clear and present danger.
I don't give a shit about whether or not people liked her or whatever their idealistic reasons not to vote for her were. None of them justify allowing Trump to take office by refusing stop him from doing it. That is on people who refused to vote or vote third party. You were not going to get the candidate you wanted this year. You were a fool if you didn't know that.
You're talking to me as if I'm one of those non-voters.
Most Americans are not the terminally-online type - they didn't see your impassioned warnings about Trump. All they heard was that there was an election, and the choice was between Trump and Harris, and neither one really had anything material to offer them. To them, democrats screaming about how bad Trump is is just par for the course. They needed more than to not be Trump, and they didn't deliver.
Go ahead and scream into the void if you want. None of it will change the fact that Harris lost because she ran a bad campaign and turned her back on meaningful progress.
Well you're defending them.
And it's has nothing to do with my warnings. It has to do with the literal words he said out loud repeatedly.
Now all you're saying is American voters are ignorant and that's somehow Kamala Harris' fault. If they didn't know what Trump had to say, they didn't know what Harris had to say.
Again not a good excuse.
I'm not defending them, I'm just explaining why that message didn't land the way you think it should have.
Most people think democrats are alarmist (and they often are), and even if they thought the threat was credible, they don't think it would affect them.
Call them dumb if you want, I don't care, democrats didn't do enough to turn them out either way.