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The Democrats WAS offering something terrible. Just because Trump is worse, doesn't make what the Dem offered not terrible. If your side had acknowledged this instead of attacking everyone who tried to tell you, maybe you'd have a chance at making the DNC offer something that the voters actually wanted and actually be able to beat Trump. But no, instead everyone that wasn't blindly accepting everything the Dems offered is treated like the enemy before the election, and now you even continue doing so after the election.
You're just living in la la land if you think doing this will make people finally support your cause. This is why I say you're acting smug. You only care that you were right over these people, and not over the consequences of your action on your country's ability to fight full-on fascism in the near future. What you're doing is the same as the non-voters, making the wrong choice for the sake of teaching the non-voters a "lesson". It's just another chain of stupid decisions the non-fascists are making to enable the rise of fascism.
I'd say good luck dealing with the consequences if you decide to continue doing this. I might not be directly affected by this, by I would definitely feel the fallout after the fact. At that time, I won't be blaming you any less for enabling fascism than the non-voters.
You are addressing this to me as if I'm running the Democratic Party or something.
I'm just a realist. There were TWO choices on the ballot. That's it.
Come November, doing anything else was just ultimately in support of the likes of donvict, Project 2025, fElon and his MOE, etc. You can sit there and feel smug in your decision if you stayed home, or if you threw your vote away on something that was not Kamala, I guess? The likes of fElon and Bronzo the Clown can thank folks like you.