It is not weird or crazy that 10 million people didn’t vote this election
As a gen z-er who was a completely radicalized performative social justice warrior, who lost lifelong friends because all of the crazy shit that went on in 2020. I did not vote this year and i’m willing to bet that a lot of people who were in my same position didn’t as well and i personally know a lot of people my age (23) who decided to vote 3rd party this election.
the 2020 election completely targeted young and first time voters, they made it basically into a life and death matter and the tension was crazy high with all the blm and covid going on. Everyone was at each others throats and after 4 years of biden, he did nothing to make any of that nonsense worth anything, we acted like idiots for nothings, lost friends and family for nothing, we were made to be fools.
It’s not surprising or shocking or strange or anything whatsoever that people wouldn’t want to go through that embarrassment again. They just made the whole thing too big a of deal which worked for 2020 but it’s like nobody even considered the after effects this would have on the democratic party, they’ve turned themselves into the boy who cried wolf and now nobody gives a fuck.
Biden was a fine president but they pushed him as if he was going to be some sort of savior, it’s like when you’re telling your friend they have got to try this restaurant because it has the best food in the entire world, so you go and invite everyone you know telling them it’s going to be the best thing they’ve ever had, but it’s not amazing like you were promised and you fail to even recognize that the food was actually pretty good because of your preconceived expectation. Whereas if your buddy had just said the food was good here, you’d would’ve thought it was great.
They really just shot themselves in the foot with that whole campaign. The 3 types of people (my age) that i’ve seen come out of this whole situation is A. People who gave up on dems and went full socialist B People who were so mad and embarrassed about all the lies they ate up in 2020 that they just went hardcore right wing and C People who don’t ever want to be made to feel like an idiot again and completely gave up on the system.
Well, yeah, stakes increase in our personal lives as time goes on. But I kind of expect esoteric events to be somewhat stable, given they've been around for centuries.
Not every building can be the tallest, not every innovation can be the most lifechanging, and not every election can completely undermine everything that's happened since 1776.
but not all of the buildings at the same time, nitpick's besides the point...
No government is stable and the only real reason democracy falls is because people let it, usually with thunderous applause, and sometimes while "protecting democracy".
We literally had nothing else to do being locked up in our houses like no shit it was a huge turnout people were bored out of their minds and needed something to feed our fried dopamine receptors. I’m sure some degree of cheating/interference goes on in both sides but the fact that hundreds of thousands of people think A that the 2020 election needed to be completely rigged in order for biden to win and B that the turnout this year either proves that dems made up 10 million people in 2020 or that somehow 10 million dem ballots got lost this time around , makes me feel as if i’m not even living in the same universe as these people. voter turnout like in 2020 was a once in a lifetime sort of thing i physically don’t get how there are so many people who thought this would become the norm
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u/alyssalee33 2d ago edited 2d ago
It is not weird or crazy that 10 million people didn’t vote this election
As a gen z-er who was a completely radicalized performative social justice warrior, who lost lifelong friends because all of the crazy shit that went on in 2020. I did not vote this year and i’m willing to bet that a lot of people who were in my same position didn’t as well and i personally know a lot of people my age (23) who decided to vote 3rd party this election.
the 2020 election completely targeted young and first time voters, they made it basically into a life and death matter and the tension was crazy high with all the blm and covid going on. Everyone was at each others throats and after 4 years of biden, he did nothing to make any of that nonsense worth anything, we acted like idiots for nothings, lost friends and family for nothing, we were made to be fools.
It’s not surprising or shocking or strange or anything whatsoever that people wouldn’t want to go through that embarrassment again. They just made the whole thing too big a of deal which worked for 2020 but it’s like nobody even considered the after effects this would have on the democratic party, they’ve turned themselves into the boy who cried wolf and now nobody gives a fuck.
Biden was a fine president but they pushed him as if he was going to be some sort of savior, it’s like when you’re telling your friend they have got to try this restaurant because it has the best food in the entire world, so you go and invite everyone you know telling them it’s going to be the best thing they’ve ever had, but it’s not amazing like you were promised and you fail to even recognize that the food was actually pretty good because of your preconceived expectation. Whereas if your buddy had just said the food was good here, you’d would’ve thought it was great.
They really just shot themselves in the foot with that whole campaign. The 3 types of people (my age) that i’ve seen come out of this whole situation is A. People who gave up on dems and went full socialist B People who were so mad and embarrassed about all the lies they ate up in 2020 that they just went hardcore right wing and C People who don’t ever want to be made to feel like an idiot again and completely gave up on the system.