To all the young people who voted 3rd party or sat out the GE...

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23. No, my point is....

...that it seems that the theory behind these daily threads whining about Susan Sarandon, and Stein voters, etc. are based on people voting against their own self interests. Or is there another reason that I'm missing?

So if the order of the day is to spend every day on here blaming the 2016 election on people voting against their self interest, why do we just limit it to Stein voters? By the same theory that those other groups I'm listing are just "Republicans who would never vote for a Democrat anyway" why is it assumed that those Stein voters or independents would ever vote for a Democrat anyway? Especially when those other groups are likely much more directly impacted by Trump's reprehensible actions than the most likely white, middle class Stein voters?

The point is less that we should start bitching about those other groups who didn't vote for the Dem in 2016 in large numbers than it is to just stop bitching about this minute group of people who didn't vote for the Dem in 2016 in small miniscule numbers? Or if you're going to do that, then spread the blame around a little more and more specifically the numbers that likely had a much more tangible impact on the election.