Matt Williams
1 min readJan 25, 2025

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It wasn’t most Americans, though. In truth, the largest voting bloc didn’t even vote. That’s 90 million people, more than those who voted for either candidate, sat this election out. But the reasons were misguided and are part of the problem.

While some had perfectly legitimate reasons, the majority didn’t vote out of apathy, cynicism, or the fact that they “didn’t like either candidate.” Leftists once again shot themselves in the foot because they didn’t think the Democratic candidate wasn’t pure enough. Others thought their vote didn’t make a difference and that the outcome would be the same no matter what.

It takes a special kind of entitlement and ignorance to look at an impure Democrat on the one side, and the prospect of fascism and something out of the Handmaid’s Tale and say “I don’t like my choices, it won’t make a difference,” or “ I don’t care.”

All the self-blaming and self-righteous indignation of people like Sanders saying it’s the fault of Democrats for “abandoning the working class” cannot rationalize that.

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Matt Williams
Matt Williams

Written by Matt Williams

Space/astronomy journalist for Universe Today, SF author, and all around family man!

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