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it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior (lemmy.cafe)

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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[–] Majorllama 1 points 9 hours ago

I can tell you as someone who lives in a deeply left state, in a very left city that there are absolutely unfathomable levels of infighting amongst the left. Almost my entire family and work are also very left.

I am basically surrounded by varying degrees of leftist people 24/7 and I have lost count of the times I have seen someone start to question the Ideological homogeneity of the left only to be "corrected" by several others around them. It's almost cult like watching people stamp out individual thinking in real time.

Anyone who dares think about something even slightly differently is either yelled at to step back in line or they are immediately cast out from the group.

I have witnessed this first hand from several old leftist friends and I have talked to other moderate lefts who have seen the same behaviors over and over.

Hell even moderates on the right love watching you guys push out people who were on your side so they can welcome them in with open arms. Nobody converts questioning leftists into full blown right wingers quite like the left can.

The left only wants your vote if your vote is exactly the same as their vote.

The right doesn't care how much you agree with them as long as you vote right.

Really funny after you remember the horrible phrase "vote blue no matter who" that the left loved to chant.

I swear y'all are your own worst enemies sometimes.