It’s not that they deserve more blame, it’s just pretty pointless to blame the people everyone knew were going to vote for Trump anyway, there was never any saving them and they’re too disconnected from reality for blame-and-shame to have any effect on them. There are actually reasonable people who were non-voters and non-viable 3rd-party voters who could have shifted the vote, the idea is to keep those people from doing that again in an effort to save democracy. We blame them because they are functionally fascists and there’s a chance they might actually feel some shame about that. That chance drops to zero with actual Republican voters.
Ya my comment sounded too aggressive. I just meant to say that the top comment is making us blame non voters more.
It’s not that they deserve more blame, it’s just pretty pointless to blame the people everyone knew were going to vote for Trump anyway, there was never any saving them and they’re too disconnected from reality for blame-and-shame to have any effect on them. There are actually reasonable people who were non-voters and non-viable 3rd-party voters who could have shifted the vote, the idea is to keep those people from doing that again in an effort to save democracy. We blame them because they are functionally fascists and there’s a chance they might actually feel some shame about that. That chance drops to zero with actual Republican voters.