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I have no science behind this (and am therefore a hypocrite) but I’m giving up on the assumption that people think. I suspect that most people feel and make decisions on those feelings.
Thinking happens later, if at all.

I've often thought, "You know, our landfills just don't have enough nuclear by-products in them."

/s

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe.

How does it map to income inequality? Only authoritarianism can support higher levels of income inequality. Arab Spring. Western Fall.

There's not one single reason when the election went the way it did, just like there is not one demographic that made the election go the way it did.
But the argument "It wasn't the economy. The economy is great, just look at these numbers [published by the government]!" is just politicians falling for their own rhetoric.
The US governments have been skewing official statistics for decades. I've lived through decades of "Oh, X is fine" when my lived experience has been quite the contrary.
I suspect that a significant source of D's sitting this election out is similar to a lot of R's thoughts: "You've ignored us for decades telling us that things are getting better, but they never do. We're done. Burn it down."
Maybe they don't expect things to get better after this election, but maybe their hoping that spreading the suffering will prompt more people to demand change as well.
Just a thought.

No knock on Proton, but there have been a lot of "lifetime membership" deals these last few years that wind up forgotten after corporate decides number should go up.
I'll consider "lifetime payments" when corpos offer a legal contract specifying what their remedy will be when "lifetime" winds up meaning "when corporate loses interest".

Yet still 100% wouldn't date a "short" guy.

Don’t ask. Just start using it. If others like it and it catches on, eventually it will be put in the OED.

There wasn’t a language conference that ok’d ‘skibidy toilet’ before it could be used.

As long as they continue to help him overthrow democracy, it’s performative bullshit.

Sadly, a lot of Americans couldn’t name the states correctly either.

General rule amongst those groups: "If you can't be good, be loud."