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Once Bernie dropped that was it for me at the national level, and even if he had won I figured it would be a coinflip between if enough of the party got behind him to help him win/govern or a Labour style complete destruction of the party and years of purges by New Democrats and their agitprop networks while the Republicans just ran roughshod Locally everything is either comfortably liberal held or so hopelessly gerrymandered that my vote is entirely pointless. I'll turn out for socialists or on the rare occasion that something is contested, otherwise I don't bother. For perspective I'm coming from a purple turned red state in 2012 that is now probably never going to be in contention again for as long as I live and gerrymandering and statehouse intervention in local legislation means every cycle will see my already largely ceremonial vote becoming less and less relevant to anything Losing Virginia sucks but at least it's so close to political and fundraising bases that the party probably isn't gonna entirely give up on it like they've done with so many others. Always like reminding people that they've never once actually been permitted to vote for POTUS regardless of what the ballot said lol
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