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Abstaining is a vote unto itself, and partisans of both flavors are wont to ignore that voting doesn't materially affect the lives of the poor and middle class. No matter who they elect things get worse, so when faced with the choice of missing a badly-needed day's pay and voting, they choose to get paid.
I mean, this is true, but in most states you have the option to vote early, vote by mail. We can’t ignore the middle part of your statement: capitalism is getting more and more hostile and no one is offering us a solution. Just giving us differently colored badges to pin to our lapel while telling us the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Give us someone who is actually speaking to us and our needs and we’d have turnout like they wouldn’t believe. But both parties actively suppress anyone trying to do so. Which has been on display my entire life, but has definitely come into much sharper focus in the past 12 years.
"Whether I get a minor laceration or I lose my arm, I'm still going to bleed"
If you're working 2-3 jobs and upwards of 100 hours a week, none of it will matter to you. All you know is you have to struggle to live and no one we elect will change it.
And this sense of superiority and refusal to understand or empathize is why hundreds of millions don't listen to you.
Lol, you don't know me, or that I've literally been there.
Pot and kettle friend.
Do you even know what that life is like? Working yourself to the bone to feed your family and still staring down the barrel of an election that you tangentially know will harm you in some way?
I've done 80hr weeks for years, and it fucking sucks. Check your assumptions, because this sense of superiority is why I ignore people like you. I've been there, but I still made the time when I had to with shit like absentee voting. Not everyone has that ability, but don't pretend like that takes away their agency, even if they have little energy to put to it
I'm not judging you. (And I should have made that more clear. I apologize.)
I'm judging the sentiment, and until Democrats learn to actually speak to workers, they're going to lose elections.