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I don't think repeatedly telling people how important voting is and pleading with them to vote and to get other people to vote is "ignoring" it. What I blame the Democratic party for is not cultivating younger candidates for years and years. There should have been a broader field of viable candidates to narrow down based on public opinion, or at the very least grooming Harris as a likely candidate throughout Biden's term instead of swapping her in as an emergency backup. Having said that, there's no excuse for "I'm not voting because there isn't a good enough candidate!" is the mentality of petulant high school sophomores who refuse to brush their teeth because they're mad at mom for making them miss soccer practice to go to a dentist appointment - I mean, she's such a bitch, I'm just gonna let my teeth rot in protest!
For sure, but if you tell that kid to just fall in line because you know better, you’re going to get an even more obstructive petulant response to your request. You have to meet people as individuals and let them in on the vision if you want them to be invested in it. Most of the messaging I saw however, was people taking any and all opportunity to display their superiority to anyone that doesn’t immediately fit into the plan
We're talking about voters not kids, and if you think the message was, "Just fall in line because I know better," you weren't paying attention. The Harris campaign bent over backwards to warn people about the dangers of an impending Trump dictatorship. Some people just didn't listen, or they can't see significant differences between the Harris and Trump. I can't even engage with any of that, because to me it's as stupid as insisting the Earth is flat. Whatever, we are where we are.