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Originally Posted by PepsiFree

It’s also bizarre to watch people narrow in on a group of protestors who actually do care about an important, extremely relevant issue that the government actually can have an impact on and suggest they don’t have a brain, should just “deal with it,” and are being childish. That’s what I mean by “fall in line,” people are literally just being bullies towards these people with the expectation they should just do what they’re told/do what individual posts expect of them and shut up about their concerns until after the election.

It’s also bizarre because there were 81 million people that did not vote in the last election and around 100 million in the election before that. If you think not voting because the government isn’t meeting your expectations on an important issue like genocide is bad, you’d probably not handle well the millions of people who don’t vote because they “didn’t feel like it.” On top of that, there are millions of people who don’t just not vote, but vote Republican against their best interests for the weakest reasons you could possibly imagine, right down to “it’d be funny to vote for Trump.”

Instead of people turning on people they believe to be very close to on their side and salvageable and calling them names and mocking them, perhaps most of the energy (as fruitless as this particular energy is) should be directed towards those that don’t vote (or vote the wrong way) for actually childish, unserious, or selfish reasons. Maybe that’s a smarter way to make the Democratic party look less like it’s filled with pretentious, entitled morons that just expect everyone to vote for them and if they don’t they’re stupid children?

Or don’t. And have fun losing. Hillary did so well.

Good thing this is message board for discussing how we think about these issues, instead of a campaign center.