“The Dems are out of touch on social issues, and have tacked too far to the left to appease a minority of progressives.”

Asshole.

U guys need mandatory voting like what we got here in aus. And by mandatory it doesnt mean u have to pick someone (its ur right to spoil ur ballot) it simply means u have to attend a polling booth.

Voting is a duty not a right

I didn’t find Harris compelling, just more of the same.

Well you're sure not going to get more of the same now. Good job, shithead.

“What is the point [of voting]?,” he asked. “Aside from a handful of weaponized issues, the parties are nearly identical. They both hate the poor and serve only their donors.”

We can yell at them that the handful of issues should matter enough, or we could actually try to get a popular candidate past the party itself and I to the general.

But shit isn't going to change until we all admit the DNC isn't automatically on our side. I'm more hopeful than I should be for the DNC election in February, but I'm ready to be disappointed.

"What a circus" say eligible voters who didn't vote in the 2024 election:

One guy said this “VP Harris failed to demonstrate she was ethically or intellectually capable of executing the office, repeatedly failing to detail out her policies..." It's infuriating that people continue to believe Harris never detailed her policies despite the fact that all she talked about was policy. All they had to do was pay attention to her and she would talk about her policies, it seems like they just didn't want to even pay attention to her. Or that because she didn't detail alllll of her policies then that wasn't enough. Add on that this person calls her intellectually incapable of talking about her policies, basically calling her stupid and it's just exhausting.

This whole article continues to make me believe in the fundamental problem with Democrat voters which so many people have shown. The democrats have to run the perfect candidate with the perfect policies or the charisma of Obama who promise the world, while the Republicans can run a guy who says immigrants are eating cats and dogs and because the Democratic candidate wasn't perfect, the Republicans win.

And then when the Democrats do promise signficant change and it doesn't immediately happen, Democrat voters punish them for it, they lose the midterms, and any change that was in the process of happening gets stopped dead. But when Republicans promise the world and don't deliver, Republican voters reward them for simply promising it.

"Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line."

What if we make not voting an official vote and, if it wins, all the parties have to try again with new candidates?

I blame my peers who didn't vote just as much as my peers who voted for Trump for what is to come.

I'm done giving a shit. We had a chance to stop this, and we sat on our ass.

All I got from this is that Democrats, progressives, and Americans are fucking absolutely stupid regardless of education level.

Lol this was a 1:1 repeat of 2016.

I voted and sat back as the Dems threw away their election by willingly ignoring their constituents in exchange for AIPAC money.

I live in a blue state but that doesn't mean I'd be justified in believing that I should sit it out. Even if that insane logic about not needing to was valid, there's other shit on the ballot. And even if my vote for or abstaining against an uncontested incumbent is irrelevant, there's still ballot measures that need to be understood.

The large number of eligible non-voters is primarily a result of those individual’s responses to propaganda. This did not happen by accident. I don’t blame the person that got conned, I blame those running the con job.

In the USA, How you vote is private. If you voted is public.

"It doesn't matter" (and they're right) is always going to be the number one answer. Very few states actually have meaningful voting rights with respect to the presidential election. Lower races are sometimes more meaningful, but even then they're frequently forgone conclusions. The only votes I had that weren't a forgone conclusion was some municipal ballot measures.

I despise humanity's current timeline. Can it fuck off, please!?

So wait, if your state wins, the excess votes don't matter towards the presidential candidate?

Well, they may have actual made it so about what they fear about their vote “not counting” by putting the fascists in power

The idea that your vote doesn't count in a strongly red or blue state is total propaganda to get people to not vote and make it so that they don't have to spend money on campaigning in those places. There are way more people who don't vote than there are people who voted for either candidate in most places. If everyone voted it could easily overcome any perceived majorities. Especially if city people voted. Problem is that there isnt enough capacity to vote. And cuts to funding that capacity in red states have been a big way to discourage voting in cities. Most people can't afford to take an entire day off of work to wait in the lines and employers wouldn't allow it. They're only required to give 1 hour which is barely enough to get to a poling place and back with no lines. And that isn't enforced so many don't even give that hour. And mail in and early voting has been framed by Republicans as unreliable with fake movies and such as propaganda even though it works great in many Blue states.