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[–] evenglow@lemmy.world -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No they don't.

Voters are told to pick which driver they want and both drivers don't listen to directions and can't read a map.

So some voters don't care who's driving the bus or where it's going.

Because they have no reason to care.

They tolerate the shitty ride and shitty passengers while looking out the window. Waiting for the ride to end. But it never does.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Yes, they do. The voters get a chance to decide who those two drivers are, and 85% of them stay home. Then they got to choose between the driver that wants to drive off the cliff, and the driver who swears they'll go get ice cream. And then 40% of the voters stay home.

Now the driver's taking us off the cliff, and you're whining that the driver that got the most votes is doing exactly what they said they would.

They have every reason to care, but they don't anyway. You can't abdicate your power and then complain no one listens to you. We had a chance to have better choices, but no one but retirees reliably show up to primaries.