• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com
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    1 hour ago

    Last election cycle I would be driving around town, and of course you see the rabid maga cultists plastering dear leader on everything.

    You would find a few tepid supporters of Biden/Harris, nothing extravagant but Dems don’t tend to go into a frenzy over their candidates. More anti-trump than anything when he’s been a factor.

    Then you have the ‘genocide joe’ crowd, who largely treat it as a given that people know the maga clan is bad so they don’t say anything about them, but are real vocal about how bad the Dems are and make it their business to shout it at everyone.

    Now anyone that can math knows our system only works for two parties and with the two electoral votes auto granted to every state as a base it favors small more rural ones that tend to vote red. When people go around constantly going on about how bad the only viable party to the r’s is then people end up with a ‘fuck it, why bother’ mindset.

    I’m no fan of the weak spine ‘we wrote a nasty letter’ D’s who won’t lay a real smackdown on the idiots across the aisle, but I can see why it happens. The right and far right will fervently vote for whomever is the most vicious option they think they can get away with. The far left though, they tend to protest and stay home if someone doesn’t pass their purity test, so their support and votes are unreliable.