What happens in November is up to Biden – it will not be the fault of the protest voter if Trump is elected. The questions remain: does the Democratic party fear Trump as much as we do? And does it value its voters enough to shift away from an approach to the onslaught in Gaza that a majority of Democratic voters are against?

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    7 months ago

    It won’t be the protest voters fault of Trump is elected but it would be something they could have prevented. Four more years of radical conservative judge appointments would create generations of degradation of women and minority group rights.

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      If that happens, protest voters could have prevented it, the DNC could have prevented it, Biden himself could have prevented it, all of the state governors and state legislators who didn’t fix gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts could have prevented it. You and I could have prevented it if we had gone door-to-door to get more people to the polling places. And so on.

      It’s easy to say that any one group could have prevented it, but how do you choose who to target when doing so?

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        7 months ago

        So then protest voters are just wasting time by not voting since their protest doesn’t matter?

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          So then protest voters are just wasting time by not voting since their protest doesn’t matter?

          Protest voters actually do vote. By definition.