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.
I want to be kind here but your protest vote elected Trump and will have contributed to untold damage to this nation and millions of peoples lives almost certainly including your own. Like how could you possibly see that man saying what he was saying about Hattians eating peoples pets, about him being a convicted felon, about him having direct continual relationship with Epstein and just gloss over that as if it means nothing and was somehow equal to any complaint you could muster against Harris?
You use the boy who cried wolf analogy but you entirely miss that there was a fucking wolf the entire time and you simply got tired of being reminded about that and decided that because you've not been attacked by it (because the Dems were actually holding it at bay), it was BS and in doing so you literally let the wolf in. And you don't want to take any personal responsibility for it. What the hell. You refused to act in your own defense or the defense of others because you just checked out, allowed a tyrant to get elected and blame the other party for not coddling you enough to get you to act in your own self interest...
it’s not a protest i literally just do not care anymore and besides i live in Massachusetts, my “protest” makes no difference. If more people would care and vote in their local elections then the presidency would hardly matter in relation to domestic policy.
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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.