I saw this meme on one of my social media pages again, and I hear this from time to time. This comes from a Democrat supporter who says not to blame the Donald Trump voters for Trump getting elected, but blame the people who did not vote. That's a rather arrogant stance to take. What this suggests is that everybody who did not vote would have voted for the Democrat candidate if they voted.
One of my big problems with these big elections as I've gotten older is the way none of the voters want to take responsibility for the change they would like to see in this world. You see it in your big state elections as well. They vote for somebody they think we'll do everything for them, and then they go back to sleep. When nothing changes, during the next election cycle, they get outraged. If you are greatly aligned with either party, then obviously it was the other party who caused every problem.
Let me put it to you this way. If you want to make a big change in your life or begin a project, do you delegate that to somebody else and let them do all the work? Yes, you might hire contractors to do things, but you are keeping an eye on what they are doing every step of the way. This doesn't happen in politics. Frequently, people vote for that candidate based on whatever they believe they say they are going to do that they agree with. Then they go about their life and don't pay attention unless the news puts a story in their face on the television screen.
I watch in amusement as people either blindly worship Donald Trump and everything he does or they are outraged against everything he does based on the frenzy the media whips and into. Don't blame the non-voters for this situation. They looked at the choices and said that neither was good enough. They looked at the third party option, if they went that far, and realized there was no chance of that ever happening. The non-voters recognize that the system as it is now is broken, and you can't fix it by voting. No matter what you do when you vote, it seems to make it worse.
I can break it down simply. The last election had nothing to do with Russia rigging anything. Both parties did attempt to rig the election in different ways. But if you want to boil it down to why the Democrat Party lost, it's because they forced a candidate on people that they did not want. People saw the system being rigged, whether they were buying into Donald Trump's rhetoric when he was saying it at the time or not. Rather than hold their nose and vote for the lesser of two evils, they realized that this way of thinking gets us nowhere either.
I like what Dennis DeYoung said in a podcast earlier this year. The majority of the people in this country aren't really for either party. They want a little from Column A and a little from Column B. When you hear any politician say "America wants this, " you know they are lying. America doesn't agree on anything totally. We will never fix this country as long as we go into an election cycle with an us against them attitude. And once again, you can't blame the non-voters for giving us president Trump. When you say that, you assume that every non-voter would have voted for the Democrat candidate, and you have no basis for a statement like that.
