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As is typical for the US, 1/3 are deeply aware, 1/3 are in full "patriotic" support, and 1/3 are too distracted by the latest TikTok dance to notice.
In a burning house with three people, one is fighting the fire, one is pouring gasoline on everything and one is on the couch watching TV.
Let's add a 4th person in there, someone who thinks they're helping by doing nothing but yelling that the fire isn't allowed to burn things
More like yelling at the one fighting the fire because they're getting water everywhere
"If you had just picked a better water bucket, we wouldn't be in this mess. It's your fault if the house burns down."
If more of you would have voted for Jill Stein, we wouldn't be in this mess!
/s in case that wasn't obvious
It's you. They're talking about you.
Please, elaborate...
Democrats are the ones criticizing the ones actually trying to put out the fire but doing jack shit about it.
What's more, they're the ones who doused the house with gas not a half a year ago, and whenever they're not delighting in the terror going "oh I bet you must love it, you didn't vote for the lady with the matches and now you got the guy with the flamethrower" they're passing his budgets, they're complying with Musk's unelected goons, they're getting on with his Gaza agenda and largely silent about the protestors getting kidnapped.
Asking for donations isn't resisting, it's ransom.
So to be clear, you believe Jill Stein voters to be representative of the ones "actually trying to put out the fire"? Am I understanding you correctly?
Anyone who didn't think genocide was an entirely negotiable part of the platform/a wedge issue nuisance, basically. There were some Jill Stein voters there, some PSL voters, some non voters who are otherwise politically active, certainly a bigger percentage than Dems who think politics is a thing you do every two years for a few hours.
I've yet to see democrat leadership organizing for a general strike or advocating for civil disobedience, unlike those others mentioned.
I really don't like how y'all just described everybody