• whoreticulture@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You’re being pretty disingenuous right now. I am telling you how this messaging is being received. The spaces I’m in on tiktok/instagram lean younger/more left than this site. The overwhelming response to this kind of rhetoric is frustration with this kind of messaging, which, has been at the forefront in several consecutive election cycles at this point. You can keep doing it, but it’s just alienating people and giving off the message that there is no room for discussion amongst committed Democrats. An election is not going to be won by only appealing to moderate Democrats, and moderate Democrats are the only people who will be influenced by this kind of messaging.

    The response to my comment alone proves my point. Nobody is engaging with it, everyone is just like … well everyone should just vote for Biden because blah blah blah but not addressing the impact of this rhetoric, which I have explained, or the concerns amongst people not interested in voting for Biden.

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      I think the biggest thing is just that I have seen amongst most of the zoomers a kind of instantaneous reaction when presented with a glut of information. They either reject it out of hand with some thought terminating cliche almost instantly, or they will voraciously try to find more, it’s kind of a split between two extremes, and there’s rarely a kind of casual lust that I think has maybe been the case more in the past. I think it’s partially the internet, I think it’s partially the fact that society is slowly rotting and all of the formalities are also rotting away, but yeah.

      So I think that this casual do-gooder vote blue no matter who kind of mentality is not really appealing to most people I interface with. They’re going to have more questions than that like 50% of the time, and then 50% of the rest of the time when they’re on like, tiktok, or twitter, or some other echo chamber where they understand that it is all pure optics and neoreligious brainrot and there is no genuineness to be had, they just will out of hand be like “just put the fries in the bag, bro”, kind of a deal. But yeah, I don’t think the casual political engagement plays well.

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      You wanna know why then ask why. The why is because we don’t have a ranked choice system and convincing moderate democrats to go third party is not gonna happen. If you vote for any third party at this time, you’re basically just throwing your vote in the trash since you won’t have a chance to vote again. We need as many people voting for Biden or the next Democrat that would replace him, if he were to drop out, as we can get. Your vote won’t count otherwise. If you want to know why you shouldn’t vote for Trump, google Project 2025 and watch his rallies. Listen to how much hate he spews. He wants anyone who is not a straight white male to be slaves or dead. With recent changes from the Supreme Court, he will also be able to do anything he wants if he gets back into office and he will absolutely make it a dictatorship.