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The belief is that one should vote for a person or party because they align with your morals. They voted against their conscience because a whole host of people told them that not to would be to condemn even more. And so they voted to prolong a genocide and now they stand without conviction or protection for their allies they gave up those convictions for. Maybe to you voting is a box you check, but for a lot of people it is a statement of their morals and beliefs. That gun to their head they would not sell out their international comrades for luxuries at home. They sold out their neighbors to protect their family and someone is still coming for their family anyway. Say what you want about "harm reduction" but voting for genocide is voting for genocide. They did so and gained nothing except an inability to say they stood for something. Harris paraded around Liz and promised to be tough on immigration. Who was that for? It certainly was not to reassure leftists that she super secretly didn't want to help murder people abroad.
Clearly we have very different understandings of the world. I've never seen a self proclaimed "proud democrat" at any actual level of organizing. Maybe the women's march admittedly had a lot of democrats show up, but actual organizers that I engage with are self proclaimed leftist who "vote" democrat but do not identify as one. If a nonbinary person checks their assigned gender at birth on a form with just M/F, that doesn't mean they align or self identify with that. It's just the options they were presented with. M4A, the fight for a living wage, and LGBT rights have all been championed by leftists before liberals could get together enough to stop using racial slurs. I've been hearing "lib" from the left since obama was in office, but I checked and urban dictionary has an entry from 2005 attacking them from the left, claiming libs are defined as fake progressives who actually don't care about leftist causes. That's popular usage for at least two decades. Maybe there's an age or geography difference that is the cause of this disconnect, but around me most refugee assistance is organized by anarchists and most food aid is organized by socialists. It's not cliquelike, as there's plenty of crossover, but what I don't see is a large contingent of run of the mill democrats actually helping anyone. If you are so concerned about how leftists vote, go work with them wearing your I'm With Her merch. Let them see some libs actually doing something.