• Wren@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    No, a single issue protest is what made people not bother to vote. Of the ninety one million registered non-voters, it’s a safe assumption to make that the difference would have been covered had even a small fraction of them done the bare minimum required to keep him from being elected.

    And considering that conservatives are well known to show up when it comes time to vote, and democrats and and other parties in opposition of the right, aren’t-

    it was a given that he would win.

    So, no. It wasn’t that Harris wasn’t electable. She wasn’t perfect. Not even close. But she wasn’t a fascist either. And that should have been enough. So no, what it was, was that there happened to be- as there is every election, a single issue that a lot of people gave cause to withhold their vote in defiance of….

    And unfortunately, this cost us our democracy.