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Been there for most of my life. And I've watched anti-electoralists and non-voters help walk back nearly every bit of progress I've seen in my lifetime.
hear hear!
Why would you blame people who did nothing over the people actually fighting for and executing the harm?
For the same reason Dr King did.
To put it more simply: non voters were by far the largest voting block this election. They had the greatest impact in our democracy.
Because the trump voters have no standards. Being mad at them for electing trump is like being mad at a chimp for throwing feces.
Because, statistically, they are a larger group that could have helped but selfishly decided not to and inaction is a choice that only serves to help the oppressors. Anti-electoralists and other accelerationists have been helping the oppressors win for over half a century, to intentionally cause human suffering to try to ignite a hot class war in the hope of achieving their utopia.
That there is not a shred of historical evidence of accelerationism successfully resulting in societal improvement or that said utopia it would be built upon the blood of the oppressed never seems to matter. That seems rather worse, to me, than those who simply want to oppress - using the suffering of others who did not volunteer as a means to an end.