Thank you, I appreciate you linking to your source. I just want to point out a couple of things about that poll you may not have considered or were unaware of, because the way those articles portray it, it's a little misleading.

That poll was a survey of 1078 voters. Of those 1078, 604 did not vote for Harris. Of those 604, only 175 people listed did not vote for Harris primarily because of her pro-genocide stance. While those numbers are significant, it's not exactly the smoking gun against Leftists that some people are making it out to be.

For one thing, that poll was limited to people who intentionally went to YouGov.com to take the poll. Which means it's a self selected sample. While that doesn't make the data useless, it does mean that it probably doesn't tell us a lot about people who aren't particularly politically active, which I would say describes people who didn't show up to vote.

Next is the fact that the poll doesn't break down the 175 people by how they identify politically. For all we know every single one of them would have described themselves as a Liberal or a Moderate.

This also moves the goalpost and changes the argument somewhat. I said that I found it hard to believe that a significant number of leftists stayed at home, this poll has nothing to do with people who stayed at home. It's talking specifically about people who voted, but voted for "Someone other than Harris". Those are two different groups of people. We also don't know if the 'someone' else was Trump or a 3rd party candidate.

Also, more people said the reason they didn't vote for Harris was "The Economy". There is no way a Leftist would prefer Trumps Mercantilist economic policy over Harris' Neoliberal economic policy. No chance.

While you might be able to convince me that a lot of people couldn't in good conscious vote for someone who vowed to continue perpetuating genocide, you will never convince me that anyone who is an actual leftist (as in someone who knows what that actually means and isn't' an agent provocateur) would vote for a fascist who also vowed to continue with the genocide instead. So without knowing who those 175 people voted for, there is no real way of even guessing if they were leftists or not.

My larger point overall is even if it were true that a significant number of Leftists stayed home or voted for a 3rd party candidate, you seem to be way more mad at those people than the DNC who WOULDN'T (not couldn't) nominate someone who wasn't pro genocide. Which if we are being real here should be the bare minimum we should expect out of a "Left" party.

Yes, harm reduction 100%. You and I and MOST leftists agree with that, but that doesn't mean that disenfranchised Neolibs believe in it. It doesn't mean apathetic moderates believe in it. I honestly think that if every single Leftist who couldn't or didn't' vote for whatever reason had shown up to vote for Harris- Trump still would have 'won'.

And that's assuming that TrElon didn't actually steal the election, which with their personalities coupled with some of the comments that they have made seems Highly unlikely to me.

So even if you did manage to successfully shame the non-voting leftists, and got them to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness for their non-actions, and vow to 'vote blue no matter who', or whatever it is you and people like you hope to accomplish by constantly promoting the narrative that it's actually Leftists who are responsible for Trump- all of the other issues remain and it will accomplish nothing but further dividing a community that it's already super hard to get to agree on much of anything other than Capitalism and Imperialism.

Man, considering how many people on here I’ve seen abandon ‘traditional’ narratives that happen to be correct for literal Soviet-era disinformation, not really sure about that. Abandoning old lies doesn’t mean much for the state of one’s ignorance if you abandon old truths as well and adopt new lies.

That's a valid point, but a whole different topic. It also doesn't necessarily imply those people are ignorant, just that they have come to different conclusions than we have. A lot of Tankies know full well what went down in Russia and China- and are cool with it. I disagree with most of what they say, but I am willing to temporarily ally with them in order to bring Hitler 2.0 down first, and then we can debate the merits of their arguments after.