303abuser The flaw in your reasoning is thinking people vote based on policy or tangible results thereof. It’s a mistake to discount how dumb and ill informed the average voter is. Look at how many democrats stayed home in 2016 because they refused to vote for Hillary after Bernie got the shaft from the DNC. That could easily happen again as Biden is almost as unelectable as she was.
Not sure this is really a case of people being dumb or ill informed? Maybe more a case of people acting out of principle - for what they believe in. If someone decides they can’t vote for Hilary Clinton because they despise her, that’s their perogative - especially when there were shady actions by the party itself to elect Hilary as the primary candidate that they didn’t agree with. The Democrats did the same with RFK this time around. I think they’re probably regretting that decision now.
Voting is about the only act of democracy we have and everyone has strong opinions on who you should and shouldn’t vote for and what’s best for you. But your vote is your vote. The reality is that democracy as we know it is a complete and utter fucking shambles and a facade. The role the media play in this shouldn’t be understated.
After the events of the last few years, people don’t believe that they’ve got it so good. They know they haven’t. They feel it in their ever diminishing wages relative to inflation, the cost of living, rent, mortgage costs. The decline is real and people are looking for change.
When you look at the wealth transfer over the last 3 / 4 years, is it any wonder people are pissed?
The reality is in most cases it doesn’t matter who is in government - the system is set up such to maintain stability and control irrespective of the sitting party.
“If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it” Ken Livingstone
