The voters who chose not to vote or worse yet, chose to vote for the other side contributed to making the entire mess many times worse. They refused to see that for a united "we" to exist, that attention had to be paid to the welfare of the whole. There's no way that letting Trump win or contributing to that win by actually voting for him was going to in any way improve the situation for Gaza.
As an ordinary citizen, who has worked low wage, low/no benefits jobs for my whole life, I have never had the power to stop unjust wars, so this refrain of "we caused this " is completely untrue, and I resent the insinuation that it is my personal fault.
I began voting over 52 years ago, when the war in Vietnam was still killing both our soldiers and innocent Vietnamese. I have NEVER voted for Republicans in all that time. I didn't sit out elections just because I didn't get my ideal candidate. The only time I ever voted third-party was the second time that Reagan got elected, and that was because the corporate owned McGreedia declared him the winner in a landslide before people on the West Coast even got off from work, let alone had time to go to the polls. Ultimately, the controversy on the networks doing that led to speculation that the early announcement of Reagan's win had contributed to the supposed landslide because many people figured that it wasn't worth bothering going to the polls. This lead to organizing efforts on the West Coast to prevent that from happening again, which eventually manifested in the movement to vote by mail.
The bottom line is, when faced with a choice between the lesser of two evils, choose less evil. Because some people thought they didn't have any responsibility to the rest of the citizens, they ended up creating a situation where there's a serious chance that "we" won't ever get to make any choices to improve things for anyone because the choice was made to give control to extremely evil and greedy people who have been itching to destroy our democracy and replace it with a Christofacist dictatorship, and have made attempts to do exactly that, going back to the 1930's and FDR.
"We" have been put into a nearly impossible position when it comes to stopping the forces of authoritarian rule from taking over completely. It didn't have to be this way. One thing that won't help, is telling the people who did everything possible to prevent this, that "we" are responsible for this. Nope. The people who own the responsibility are the people who chose not to vote or threw in with the enemy instead of putting their collective shoulders to the civic wheel.
Taking responsibility for being on the receiving end of abuse is not empowerment. It absolves the abuser for their mistreatment. Holding abusers and rapists responsible for their assaults is empowering. The sad truth here is that the people who refused to vote or voted for Rump sided with the abuser and handed them either long term or permanent control over our country.
I don't have a college degree, but I can see Dump for the lying fraud and con man that he is. Why couldn't these folks at least make the effort to find out what was really going on? How did their protest "fix" anything?
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