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You keep hearing not now because you assholes are always picking this fight when it's time for an election.
You're not making a well considered demand for action, you're wielding your privilege to threaten everyone else with letting the nazis come back again if they don't fall in line behind whatever single issue of the day you've decided to tell people is moving you.
And the most infuriating part is that your lack of participation under those threats is exactly the goddamned problem. 30 million people participated in the 2016 primary, if y'all had spent as much of the energy turning out for it as ya did complaining about how everyone else did, Bernie would have won in a knockout. Double that for the general, green voters got to feel real high and mighty with their protest votes that would have flipped every single swing state and saved us from Trump in the first fucking place.
I have been voting, reliably, including in primaries and midterms, since Obama I. Somehow, mysteriously, we've arrived at this place where our last best hope of staving off full tilt Christian fascism for the next four years is probably too senile to be a night clerk at a gas station, which would tick me off a lot less if the democrats had been a little bit responsible and groomed Kamala as a successor or been a little more honest than letting people find out in the first presidential debate. I don't want these assholes to win, pal. I'll be fine, but lots of people won't, and I'm not about that. For my part, I'm not comfortable sleepwalking into Christian Fascism because it offends mainstream Democrat sensibilities.