• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    They don’t care about winning if it means lowering themselves to the level of trying to court voters.

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      5 days ago

      They court voters all the time. They don’t court nonvoters.

      For the same reason, campaigns don’t depend on getting youth to finally turn out to vote. It’s a strategy that has never worked.

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        5 days ago

        They court voters all the time. They don’t court nonvoters.

        They conveniently designate those they don’t want to listen to as nonvoters, and pay no actual attention to whether the demographics they ignore are voters or not. “They don’t vote” is a pretext and has never been anything else.

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          They don’t have to “designate” people as nonvoters. A nonvoter is someone who doesn’t vote. Nonvoters designate themselves.

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            Until the election has passed and they haven’t voted, only then are they nonvoters. Before the election, calling them nonvoters is just an excuse to ignore them.

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              No, there is a specific term for people like that: “First time voters”. And they are courted by all parties.

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                5 days ago

                It’s never occurred to you that parties need to actually try to retain voters to keep them from staying home in disgust?

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                  Again, the vast majority of nonvoters are politically disengaged. They don’t stay home out of disgust, they stay home because they don’t care.

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                    Again, they weren’t nonvoters until after the election. They were ignored before the election.

                    Now keep ignoring what I’m saying and repeat yourself. I voted in 2024, but that won’t stop you from declaring me a nonvoter so you can ignore me. It’s way easier than listening.