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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 23 hours ago

That's sorta the problem with the Harris/Walz campaign, and why I'm thinking this was malice rather than stupidity. Their policy on their website and a lot of the early rhetoric was very progressive, which led to Harris getting the highest single day of donations and the largest number of small donations the DNC has ever seen.

After the money had poured in from all us poors, including my $20, the campaign started shifting its message further and further rightward to appeal to more and more corporate donors, all the while still asking progressives for more money. Eventually, the speeches being given stopped matching the previously posted policy platform at all, and we started to get the absolute insane shit like Obama telling black men to fall in line.