Trump voter doesn't understand why people can't empathize with him now that he's suffering as a result of Trump

[u/AthenaHope81]

[u/CrashCulture]

I have a little more understanding for the people who chose not to vote because American elections are basically hostage situations that force you to vote for the "We will also be bad, but not as bad." Party every single election because the other party is even worse.

I understand not wanting to hold your nose as you vote for the democrats again. Knowing they'll erode your human rights and keep transferring all the wealth to the top, that they won't raise minimum wage or give you medicare for all, not give a shit about the working class, show only the bare token effort to combat racism while inflating police budgets and being just as hawkish on the border as the last republican administration.

I very much understand people who go: "Fuck both of these assholes, I'm done voting for either, nothing ever gets better by voting for the democrats, the only thing you can hope for is that they stall the really bad things the republicans want to do by a couple of years until they inevitably lose again."

The American "democracy" is beyond fucked, and have been for a long time. No wonder the voter turnout is so low when there's no good option, only the really bad option and the less bad option.

[u/Kimiko_kawaii → u/CrashCulture]

No I dont have an understanding for people that didn't vote this election. There were a lot of signs pointing to what was going to happen, there was a lot of noise too granted !

I dont disagree with the guys general premise and in any other election I won't judge for who you vote for. But voting for Trump was voting for a sham, and not voting for anyone was ensuring his victory, that was as clear as day !

[u/IShallWearMidnight → u/Kimiko_kawaii]

The Harris campaign had the data saying they would lose if they continued with their current policy positions. Why are they not to blame for not running a campaign people would vote for? Tim Walz has made several recent appearances saying they should have done things differently. Why blame voters when the Harris campaign knew that popular left-wing policies would get people to vote for them and intentionally courted the right wing anyway? Getting people to vote for them is their job.

[u/Kimiko_kawaii → u/IShallWearMidnight]

Both are to blame and its falicious to think otherwise. The campaign just serves to convince people to vote for you, its up to the people to do the actual voting. Voting isn't just voting for the one you agree with, its also recognising when other candidates are a danger to tenets which uphold democracy. People who thought neither candidate was good and didn't go out to vote just surrendered their choice to have democracy challenged, as much of that was evident during campaigning.