Yes based off election results 59% of those who did not vote bear a majority of the responsibility. Of those 41%, 49.4% percent voted for Trump and 48.8% and 1.8% for other candidates.
- You could blame the 1.8% that voted for Jill Stein. Really not effective as an argument.
- You could blame the low information voters who voted for Trump …
Yes based off election results 59% of those who did not vote bear a majority of the responsibility. Of those 41%, 49.4% percent voted for Trump and 48.8% and 1.8% for other candidates.
- You could blame the 1.8% that voted for Jill Stein. Really not effective as an argument.
- You could blame the low information voters who voted for Trump which may be estimated to be around 20%. Sure they could have made a difference.
- Logically the 59% would make more sense, those that didn't vote which would have hugely tipped the balance had they made the choice to perform their civic duty. Who were these people? A portion were the pro-Palestinian vote we know. How much of a percentage of non-voters were they? Hard to say. Let's pretend for arguments sake it wasn't large but significant like 5%. Would they be to blame? More so than the people who blame Biden, or Harris for that matter.
Was Palestine worth sacrificing democracy over? I'll never believe that. I think continuing to protest and making a convincing argument to go a different direction would have been more effective. I think Harris missed an opportunity to bring those people back in, even if it meant sacrificing her position, much like Trump did with RFK Jr. but she didn't. That was on her. But largely it was the non-voting electorate that got us here.
Yes based off election results 59% of those who did not vote bear a majority of the responsibility. Of those 41%, 49.4% percent voted for Trump and 48.8% and 1.8% for other candidates.
- You could blame the 1.8% that voted for Jill Stein. Really not effective as an argument.
- You could blame the low information voters who voted for Trump which may be estimated to be around 20%. Sure they could have made a difference.
- Logically the 59% would make more sense, those that didn't vote which would have hugely tipped the balance had they made the choice to perform their civic duty. Who were these people? A portion were the pro-Palestinian vote we know. How much of a percentage of non-voters were they? Hard to say. Let's pretend for arguments sake it wasn't large but significant like 5%. Would they be to blame? More so than the people who blame Biden, or Harris for that matter.
Was Palestine worth sacrificing democracy over? I'll never believe that. I think continuing to protest and making a convincing argument to go a different direction would have been more effective. I think Harris missed an opportunity to bring those people back in, even if it meant sacrificing her position, much like Trump did with RFK Jr. but she didn't. That was on her. But largely it was the non-voting electorate that got us here.