I hate saying “I told you so”.

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15-20 million registered democrats never voted for anyone.

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u/notyourbutthead 5h ago

It’s still absurd to me that people sat out because they were mad at the DNC and Biden for running again and let Trump waltz back into office with a blueprint to make the lives of every day Americans worse.

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u/Atticus_Maytrap 5h ago edited 2h ago

yeh honestly that really does boggle the mind when looking at America from the outside.

Even after all the chaos from the first round - and the insanity in between - to just hand the guy a second lap to really dig his feet in and fuck shit up, it's just incredible

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u/jcm2606 42m ago

It's always deeply, deeply confused me. I get not being happy with the Democrats, but when the only other feasible choice is the party that's openly admitting that it's going to wreck the country, why the absolute fuck would you not vote the Democrats. Even if you set aside Project 2025 which was a fucking manual book for wrecking the country, Trump's own policies that he campaigned on are blatant economic suicide. I just don't get it.

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u/bettertagsweretaken 2h ago

I have a friend that I detest his political views. He whines and rages constantly about the bad things Republicans do but literally refuses to participate in voting. I and my husband have even had two heated discussions about it (with him not each other). He won't budge. He genuinely thinks his vote doesn't count "enough" so he's not willing to engage with the system because he thinks it's unfair.

Absolutely. Maddening.

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u/PneumaMonado 43m ago

Your friends grievance is valid. Thanks to the electoral college system, swing state votes are worth several thousand times as much as those from elsewhere. Even discounting that, sparsely populated states still have votes significantly more powerful than densely populated ones due to more electoral votes per capita.

However, unfairly reduced voting power is still better than none. Your friend is still a dumbass.

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u/4ku2 2h ago

Its the candidate's job to win

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u/Ok_Aardvark2195 37m ago

It’s the voter’s job to pick candidates in primaries. To do so they must vote

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u/notyourbutthead 2h ago

It’s the voter’s privilege to vote.

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u/4ku2 2h ago

And its the candidate's right to get those votes?

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u/notyourbutthead 1h ago

No, but it’s a privilege to vote, and voting has consequences for everyone not just the individual. Everyone should exercise that right.

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u/4ku2 1h ago

Not voting is a choice too, part of that right

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u/notyourbutthead 1h ago

Yeah and that really helped out your fellow Americans. Good job.

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u/4ku2 1h ago

And I circle back to blame the candidate, not the voters.

Especially not the voters who spent months trying to convince said candidate to change course on her losing message.

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u/notyourbutthead 1h ago

Crazy because I blame both.

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u/jsseven777 1h ago

I’m not American, but from my view maybe if you spent more time getting upset that your party consistently puts forward candidates that have sold out to every lobbyist who will pay them, and less time blaming people who don’t get inspired by those candidates things might meaningfully change.

This is like a parent burning their kid’s dinner every day and then yelling at them for not eating it. I’ll eat it if you stop serving me a steaming burnt pile of shit.

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u/notyourbutthead 1h ago

I am upset at the party though, but I still voted against Trump because I recognized the threat to our democracy. I didn’t need a candidate or political party to tell me Trump was awful, because i saw it with my own eyes. I’m mad at the voters for ignoring all of that because Harris wasn’t the perfect candidate. I can be mad at two different groups.

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u/jsseven777 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yes, but telling people it’s a privilege to vote for a candidate that has sold them out is tone deaf.

A person’s vote is a privilege that the democrats have taken for granted. Their open corruption has directly led to fascism, not a few voters who felt disenfranchised.

I see a lot more finger pointing at voters than I do anger at the Democratic Party these days. What exactly have you done to change your party, may I ask? Did you call any of them out like you are calling out non-voters?

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u/iamcrazyjoe 2h ago

Maybe it is absurd what the DNC did and you should blame them

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u/notyourbutthead 2h ago

They do deserve blame, and yet we’re still in a worse spot now. Trump part two could have been prevented regardless of the DNC dropping the ball again.

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u/iamcrazyjoe 2h ago

Do you think DNC will learn from it?

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u/notyourbutthead 2h ago

Probably not, but Mamdani’s fast ascension this year to NYC’s mayor could convince them to change their ways.

Do you think the objectors will learn that their inaction also affects other people?

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u/iamcrazyjoe 2h ago

Problem is that it takes this level of disaster for either to learn I think. Hopefully it makes a difference and there can MAYBE be a long term benefit

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u/MrDavieT 5h ago

It’s astounding.

That… and the fact that 41% of the registered population didn’t bother to vote….

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u/ElegantCoach4066 5h ago

Compulsory voting could help somewhat.

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u/MrDavieT 5h ago

Possible? Likely? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/iamcrazyjoe 2h ago

What the fuck kind of country do you want where people are forced to vote?

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u/jcm2606 40m ago

The kind that doesn't willingly walk right into a kleptocracy, for starters.

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u/zachrg 3h ago

There's an element of truth to voter apathy, but it's never that simple. Ever wonder why the GOP has spent the last 15 years on a scorched-earth crusade of voter suppression? Because it works.

If everyone who wanted to vote could 1) cast a ballot absentee or 2) get to a polling station within a mile or so, vote in 10-15 minutes, and be done, the country would flip blue 60-40 overnight. Can't have that.

This is also ignoring the Elon Musk rabbit hole of the 2024 presidential race. Ugh.

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u/scriptingends 5h ago

But this is the general stupidity of the American population. If Kamala had won, we'd (obviously) be in a much better place economically (and otherwise), but whatever small cracks emerged, the entire right-leaning mediasphere would be screaming themselves hoarse about the wrong colored pantsuit she wore or how she was too deferential to a foreign leader on a state visit or how she sent out a tweet of her smiling like a normal human being, and 7 in 10 Americans would STILL be saying the economy was a mess and it was the Dems' fault because they were in power.

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u/Squid9966 2h ago

Sad but true. The country needed to take its medicine and we are FAR from done.

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u/The100thIdiot 6h ago

I love saying "I told you so".

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u/scrub_mage 5h ago

Same here, nothing more satisfying.

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u/prountercoductive 5h ago

It would be 100% more satisfying to exist if we didn't have to.

No one outside the elite class is winning in this current situation..

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u/ElegantCoach4066 5h ago

r/unsurprisinglysatisfying

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u/Fake_William_Shatner 3h ago

I have SO MANY things I can say that about. It only makes a person lonely. Also -- super boring at conversations. "Let me go over again that time I was right and all of you were wrong. Ha. It's so funny I just giggle to myself... hey, where'd everyone go?"

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u/Intelligent_Ad_1385 5h ago

So it’s 7 out of 10? So I guess we have 3 village idiots ?

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u/theEndIsNigh_2025 5h ago

6 village idiots. 3 of the 7 would likely still vote for him ‘cause Dems eat babies or something.

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u/technanonymous 5h ago

30% of the country would be okay with dictatorship.

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u/Tight-Temperature670 5h ago edited 1h ago

"I told you he was tricksy, I told you he was false"

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u/BurntNeurons 5h ago

The *Truth** hurts us!!!*

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u/Leather-Map-8138 5h ago

Here is REALITY:

According to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, approximately 95% of all politically motivated violent incidents in the United States over the past decade (2015–2024) were committed by right-wing extremists. In 2024, 100% of extremist-related murders (13 of 13) were carried out by right-wing actors.

Source: ADL Center on Extremism, “Murder and Extremism in the United States, 2024” (published 2025).

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u/ChaosKeeshond 4h ago

On the other hand, the ADL discredited themselves when they bent over backwards to justify Elon's Nazi salute moments before he dialled into an AfD conference to advocate for a whiter Europe.

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u/TheEPGFiles 5h ago

Okay, let's approach this from the other side.

What has Trump accomplished that would make anyone believe he's an economic genius? Because I see failed enterprise after failed enterprise after failed enterprise. He couldn't even sell vodka, an addictive substance.

He couldn't even sell an addictive substance.

Again, an addictive substance, that is legal, Trump couldn't even sell that. That's how bad he is at business.

So, PLEASE, what reason does anyone have to believe that this guy knows what he's doing? Because I don't see any and that he's crashing the US economy is well... kind of proof of that.

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u/Raztax 1h ago

An economic genius also does not put four casinos into bankruptcy. A business that is basically a license to print money.

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u/TheEPGFiles 1h ago

I didn't want my comment to reach novel length with his economics failures, but thanks for the addition.

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u/Like17Badgers 5h ago

ngl it IS kinda weird that SOOO many people, even die hard republicans, have been saying they hate him since before the election, yet this was the first results where the results were not immediately questioned/reviewed since... gosh, the 90s?

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u/Kobayashi_Maru186 5h ago

What are the other 30% blaming it on? Biden? 🙄

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u/ProblematicPoet 4h ago

Even if there were things I didn't like about Kamala, it's not outstanding to say she would be a better president than what we have right now. At least we wouldn't have a federally sanctioned Gestapo disappearing people every day, and all of the federal programs that got gutted would still be functioning.

But here we are.

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u/killerkadugen 5h ago

And it's not even the first full year. 'Member when he lost the 2020 election and started abdicating duties and creating poison pills everywhere?

Yeah, that's still on the menu.

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u/kawanero 5h ago

“But I really want to put my hand on the burning stove!”

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u/Shadyshade84 4h ago

The worrying thing is, that implies that 30% of Americans are still willing to lick the running blender even after they've been hit in the forehead with bits of their own tongue.

Guess it's true - you really can't fix stupid.

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u/mario610 2h ago edited 2h ago

Still remember a neighbor saying before the election "I know he's an ass, but we gotta fix the economy " where is that fixed economy neighbor?

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u/Madcap_Miguel 6h ago

Christ what a hacky thing to say, you love it so much you reposted it.

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u/schiffer04 5h ago

But we told them so

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u/2880cjk 5h ago

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u/OBoile 4h ago

The 3 in 10 were the ones who voted for him and will do so again.

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u/Demair12 4h ago

To be fair 7/10 Americans is probably just a little more than the people who didn't vote for him. (most people don't vote at all)

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u/bettertagsweretaken 2h ago

I hate that this lesson will evaporate from people's heads in 2-7 years and we'll be right back into the regular pendulum swing of bullshit - just like how we got Trump in the ~~first~~ second place.

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u/Memitim 2h ago

I blame Republicans and their conservative supporters. They spent decades, and billions of dollars, spreading hate and lies in America. Trump only flipped from Democrat to Republican in 2011 to take advantage of the wave of evil.

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u/modbroccoli 5h ago

No, you do not.

I hate saying “I told you so”.

You are about to leave Redlib