I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • dukeofdummies@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The issue I have here is that Trump was not new to politics this time around.

    Giant wall of terrible things Trump has done.

    … Yeah, I agree. As a matter of fact, it sounds exactly like " if you’re not with us then things are going to go to hell." or “if you don’t vote for us you are gonna feel even worse we promise you”, but a lot more verbose.

    If you want to rally people to a cause, you need TWO THINGS. A thing you don’t want, and a thing that you do. Either a thing you will have, or a thing you have right now. If you don’t have that thing you want, then you don’t have a better of two options.

    You just have a less hopeless of two options, and you shouldn’t be shocked that you didn’t draw a fighting force of people together like Mel Gibson in Braveheart.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      15 days ago

      So your saying people really need a “Mel Gibson” to compel them to not vote for a Hitler (and this is post actual Hitler so we already know the playbook)? The fact that it’s even a debate for people is unconscionable for me. How is allowing a man looking to harm a large section of the American population even a choice? How do you not vote against him just so that you can at least know you tried to save someone, even if you yourself feel helpless and without hope. You at least didn’t help a man that is going to harm so many.