Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This mostly expresses a misunderstanding of how voting and electoralism work in a practical, applied manner.

A voter can be strategic and could be moved. Voters are a statistical distribution. And in the course of an election cycle, won’t be moved. It’s the job of politicians to figure out where voters are at and speak to them.

Blaming voters for a failure like 2016 or 2024 is like blaming people for the failures of recycling. Its the job of parties and candidates to go find the votes, to build a winning coalition, to hear the grievances of voters and then to speak to those grievances.

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