• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I wouldn’t say worse, but equally idiotic. Not voting doesn’t absolve you from causing the result.

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Not voting in 2020 would actually have been the optimal outcome for the country. Objectively, we would have been far, far better off if a large number of Democrats had stayed home in 2020, allowing Trump to get a second term then instead of now. Democrats focused on short-term expediency by forcing Biden through. They won the election in 2020, but at what a terrible price. Instead of a flailing second Trump term with Trump as a lame duck, Democrats gave Trump four more years to regroup, strategize, and come up with Project 2025. Democrats chose the cheap and easy solution in 2020, and every one of us is paying for it now.

      Your strategy has some merit, but it fails in that it only considers short-term, rather than long-term thinking. Your victories end up temporary and ultimately Pyrrhic.

      Voting for today’s lesser of two evils only works if you’re a goldfish with no memory of history.

      • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        Project 2025 is not from yesterday. Do you even know what the Heritage Foundation is?

        This(project 2025) has been in the works for decades.

        You have very little understanding of what is going on. You are the very goldfish you argue against.