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    Republicans don’t blame libertarians. they know that the people who want to vote for libertarians aren’t Republicans. the same can’t be said for Democrats. they believe they are owed every vote people choose to give to greens. it’s entitled.

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      And if you don’t vote for them or at all your voice doesn’t matter. I “love” that argument of institutional marginalization. It’s the same kind of thinking and justification they used for oppressing black voters for over a century.

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        your voice doesn’t matter

        You are the one who “doesnt matter” here because you cant win an election without progressives but you centrists refuse to engage with the voters and their issues. Why wont you lot ever talk about stopping the war criminality? Why is that off the table? Why Didnt Biden or Haris support single payer? Why not address issues of affordability and social injustice? Why was Bidens response to Defund & reallocate to increase police funding?

        Thats some bullshit and it will be a cold day in hell before I help elect another aipac-centrist. The cold hard fact is that you centrists arent in the center, you lean far right and you dont care about the voters actual issues. You are owed nothing and I see Dem party identification as a negative now when I vote, after a lifetime of being a straight ticket voter. The DNC did that, and now they can live with it. Go have tea with Schumer if you dont like it, because your voice doesnt matter to me.

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          I’m with you, never holding my nose to vote again. They can either adapt or lose without us.

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          I didn’t come across clear. I’m opposed to what is being termed as Blue MAGA who say those who don’t vote don’t matter. They matter a whole hell of a lot because they may more to say than the sycophants who always vote party lines. It’s a method to marginalize people who already are that.

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            Yes, I am. A person who chooses not to vote still has something to say and not voting means they feel marginalized by the system that it’s useless. They deserve as much time at the table as anyone else and the “always blue no matter who” types continually try to marginalize them.

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              got it, my mistake, sorry. We do agree. I suppose I am a little overly trigger happy with all the posts telling me I dont have a say at all if I didnt vote team blue or red.