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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah! Voting is difficult so people have lots of excuses to not bother!

Apathy is the biggest factor in disenfranchisement, much as we'd all like to blame "the establishment" for lack of participation.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Voting is difficult so people have lots of excuses

Disenfranchisement is public policy, so people are prohibited from casting their votes.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

And Lemmy users are voluntarily consenting to become disenfranchised. They're doing the billionaires' work for them.

They're voluntarily agreeing to stay home on election day, let Trump win, and kill the Palestinian protest movement by giving people new problems to worry about.

If it weren't for these non voters, Kamala would have won and we'd currently be forcing her to divest from Israel. But instead we have Trump bombing Iran on Netanyahu's orders and we have to do No Kings instead of No Israel. We're stretched too thin because of these guys.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

You are reversing the timeline. Most politicians betrayed them so they no longer care and bother to vote. I am person who votes

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the argument is that the Democrat party is a billionaire owned party.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And Lemmy users are voluntarily consenting to become disenfranchised.

That's just victim blaming.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz -3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I love blaming victims who lick boot

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

The boot licking is coming from inside the liberal tent. That's why we ended up with a liberal majority voting for more ICE agents and fewer IRS agents.