I don’t believe for a second that Leftists stayed at home in any significant numbers, despite what a few loud and proud online people were saying
As I've posted elsewhere in this comment thread (and can grab to post again if you like), there is data showing that former Biden nonvoters on the issue of Gaza alone, itself a very leftist and niche issue in the largely foreign-policy-apathetic US electorate, would have been enough to bring Harris to victory.
Funny enough, I initially, after the election, disbelieved this claim, and was largely disinterested in pursuing the matter. I regarded leftists, like you, as too small a group in the US to swing some two million votes. It was leftists on here crowing about how integral they were to KAMALACAUST'S defeat who showed me the poll which changed my mind.
You know what I haven’t seen even once? Anyone calling out the DNC for putting up such trash in the first place. The millions of neoliberals more interested in propping up capitalism than human rights. The millions of liberals who know that the DNC is trash but are unwilling to put any pressure on them.
... fucking what??
That's a constant topic on here.
The racist sexist moderates who voted for Biden but not Harris because he has a penis and wasn’t brown.
That's sometimes brought up on here, but is typically shot down by leftists as 'lib' talk.
And did anyone even bother to question if the “Leftists” online who were the loudest about not voting were genuine? It’s not possible they were Russian bots?
Bruh, that was also a constant topic on here, though one which always started a fight.
For my part, I doubt that many actual Russian or Russian-employed professional trolls were on here. If there's anything 2 years on Lemmy has taught me, it's that leftists are no smarter or more discerning than the conservatives I grew up with, or the centrist liberal neighbors I found when I moved away from my hometown.
Political allegiance makes people less vile, not less stupid, it would seem.