
Yeah, that would be a good argument if it wasn’t a blatant case of emotional manipulation and a poor metaphor on top of that.
Like it or not your life comes with responsibilities, one of those responsibilities are to those around you. Your gun to the head metaphor implies that you are the only part impacted by the consequences of your actions, but that’s obviously not the case here. If you imagine 100 gunmen have guns to 100 people’s heads and then tell on the them to start marching or else they all get shot, then it would at least be a little closer. I can understand and even sympathize with the unfortunate situation the marcher is put in but that doesn’t mean he still won’t receive some of the blame when he decides for the entire group that enough is enough and he’d rather just end the whole thing then and there.
I think this is what the rest of us see as the core of the problem and what you all seem unwilling to see; refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils is inherently selfish, even if it is understandable.
Hey! I actually agree with everything you said so that’s kind of fun for us! The big problem I see is that the people who decided to make a stand in the last election really had to plan to ensure group buy in so there was no real path to success, just moral high ground for those that refused to vote for more of the same.
Assuming that it’s not too late at this point we need real leaders with a real plan to get real people behind a movement for change. If the next four years end in a vote that ushers in change with first destabilizing the entire world then I’ll happily admit I was wrong but my fear and the fear of most everyone else who voted for Harris despite it being more of the same is that we won’t get a chance for real change without a full on coup now that Trump is in control again.