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Originally Posted by nfotiu
What you seem to be saying here is that the progressive left is banding together to leverage their voting block to get at least lip service paid to some of their policies and causes.
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Well, I said literally nothing that is even remotely close to that, and actually said that individuals should be encouraged to vote (or not vote) according to their principles and the issues they feel are most important, whether Democrat or Republican, so I’m kind of fascinated by the leap.
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I'm not going to call an abstainer evil. But, I'm not going to buy that they genuinely care about the causes they claim to if they're willing to influence an outcome that makes a lot of women/LBGQT+/visible minorities/immigrants lives worse. I am especially not going to hold them in high regard if they are a white male college student or recent grad who doesn't have to live with the consequences those groups do.
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Yeah, sorry, not voting is not influencing the outcome. It’s literally choosing to have no influence on the outcome.
The rest is pretty arrogant, don’t you think? Maybe people don’t buy that the Democrats genuinely care about the causes they claim to if they’re willing to lose those voters? Maybe you shouldn’t?
Shades of Biden’s “they ain’t Black” comment though. Kudos.