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As someone who phone banks, canvasses and gets involved in primaries my anecdotal experience is that is not what's driving voter apathy. What drives voter apathy is the fact that the DNC primaries keep producing these garbage candidates. When is the right time to have a conversation about the people who vote for them in the primaries? In my mind it shouldn't be controversial at this point to say that voting for Biden in the 2020 primaries was selfish and stupid. So when does that conversation happen?
You're sure winning hearts and minds over here by treating the majority of Democratic primary voters with utter contempt. There's a reason Sanders ended his campaign early in 2020 and didn't ride it to the end like in 2016, and there's a reason he threw his weight behind Biden in 2020 where he did not support Clinton in 2016. Sanders trusts Biden and the people he surrounds himself with, and I do too, even if I disagree with his admin on some issues.
Is that inappropriate? Because that's the treatment I receive on a regular basis when I inform people I'll be voting 3rd party.
"Someone was mean to me, so I'm going to be mean to everyone too."
Does that mean you believe it's inappropriate when someone treats me with contempt when I say I'm voting 3rd party and not for Joe Biden in the 2024 general election?
Yes
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