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Originally Posted by coordi
This would assume that one side would have an over representation of "**** it" non-voters than the other. Maybe you could argue that is what happened in 2020 that lead to record numbers of voters. If that is your example then it worked out in your favor. Ultimately, "everyone voting" should be statistically relevant to "everyone voted who wanted to vote".
If statistically Democrats are over-represented in the "our vote doesn't matter" then its a failure of the Democratic party, not individual voters.
It might be a geographical feature.
More democrats live in perma-blue areas than republicans live in perma-red areas.
In perma-mono-coloured areas your vote (in the general) actually doesn't matter. At all. The seat is already won.
So what democrat-leaning people need to understand is that in many (most?) places where they live, the actual real election is the primary one.
So if you are democrat -leaning, outside of a few purple districts/states, your political opponent isn't trump, isn't maga, at all. They don't matter, your vote doesn't influence that.
Your political opponent is your fellow democrat, the centrist one if you are hardcore leftist, or the hardcore leftist one if you are a centrist. That's who the election is between in Perma blue areas.