Why is it Democrats responsibility to get progressives to vote in primaries? If you don’t vote, politicians don’t care about your opinions.

We are back to the original point that people are so determined to blame Democrats that they sabotage their own efforts to get something better.

People should have been planty enthusiastic to get anyone but Trump as President, but that shows how strong the misinformation machine is.

Personally I’ve always favored a system like Australia where voting is compulsory and punished with a small fine. That filters out the principled from the merely lazy.

I would argue that it is the civic duty of a citizen to vote. Enthusiasm is irrelevant.

I’ve gotten more down votes saying exactly this.

In 2020 Biden won with 81.3 million votes. In 2024 Trump won with 77.3 million votes. All we had to do to avoid the mess we are in is turn out with the same “enthusiasm” we had for Biden in 2020.