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Far left intellectualism (lemmy.world)

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[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (23 children)

Because boycotting is powerful. People forget this

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago (16 children)

There is no benefit in losing our democracy to a christo-fascist takeover. And historically when Democrats lose, they move further to the right. If people on the left want to shift the Overton window towards them, they should be a reliable voting block during elections and build grassroots movements between elections.

[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't know saying Trump is a fascist seems kind of propaganda to me. Don't get me wrong I'm not voting for him and I don't like him either

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Trump is one the spewing fascist rhetoric.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/07/trump-immigrants-crime-00182702

“How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States. You know now a murder, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,” he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Weird, I recognized the rhetoric but not the username. Here is the Project 2025 link again:

https://www.25and.me/?topics=

And the full project 2025 website:

https://www.project2025.org/

Republicans are overrepresented because of the electoral college in presidential elections. Republicans do better with low voter turnout because more people are inclined to vote for Democrats, but those people tend to be concentrated in cities and certain states. It's how Trump won the 2016 election despite losing the popular vote. Meaning Democrats need more votes to overcome high population states and cities from being underrepresented in elections.

So by not voting in this election, people are making it easier for Republicans to win by not helping to overcome this anti-democratic advantage that Republicans have. By not voting a person can contribute to Trump's success even without supporting him.