Tenth grader Arnaldo Bazan and his father were stopped by ICE at a McDonalds, when their car was rammed by unidentified ICE agents. The two were taken into custody and brutally beaten. According to the teenager, the ICE agents also repeatedly called him slurs, stole his phone and pawned it for $250.
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This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Blaming “protest‑non‑voters” for ICE brutality misses why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, and why Democrats keep failing vulnerable communities.
Yes, Gaza cost Harris votes: about 422,000 Democratic‑leaning voters stayed home or voted third‑party, with roughly 122,380 directly linked to protest (Al‑Shabaka). But protest voters were a smaller factor compared to the 6.8 million former Biden voters who switched sides or stayed home due to broader campaign failures (Common Dreams).
The Democratic Party’s own autopsy points to larger failures: voter disenchantment as millions switched sides or stayed home, a chaotic primary process, abandoning the working class to court Republicans and donors, alienating young and minority voters over Gaza and the economy, and losing Black and Latino voters who shifted toward Trump (NPR).
ICE brutality isn’t a Trump‑only problem. Obama deported a record 2.7 million people (Migration Policy Institute). Biden’s Title 42 expulsions removed over 2.5 million migrants without asylum hearings (PBS NewsHour). The agency’s culture of violence was built by successive administrations.
When we blame individuals who refused to vote for a candidate supporting genocide, we ignore why Democrats offered such a candidate. The answer isn’t that voters failed the party, it’s that the party failed voters. A political machine funded by corporate donors cannot deliver protection for vulnerable people.
If we want to stop ICE brutality, we need to confront the system that produces both Republican and Democratic presidents who expand its powers. Focusing on “protest‑non‑voters” lets that system off the hook.
Who’s blaming? I am informing protest-non-voters what they voted for.
If the democrats had held an actual primary or listened to any of the people voting uncommitted we would not be in this situation. ‘inform’ people with actual power, preferably with a brick
No point in discussion when you resort to
sarcasmdismissing what’s said and demands for violence. ml really is something.funny how you can overlook years of warmongering from democrats (and their enormous body count), but as soon as it’s an offhand online remark (clearly parody) about a brick you get concerned about violence.
I wonder if there’s was anything the people with actual power could have done to increase the number of voters.
The actual power is held by the voters. The sooner you understand this the better. So you’re asking what the voters could have done to increase the number of voters. And the answer is: the voters can increase the number of voters by voting.
Ok, so you learned nothing. Enjoy losing to Trump jr in 2032 after Gavin Newsome maintains and expands all of Trump’s policies.
Correction: so you learned nothing. Remember, this is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Listen, I tried to increase the number of voters. I couldn’t dress up genocide and tax breaks for small businesses. I learned you can’t message policy that does the opposite of what voters want into more votes. The only way to get votes is to do what the people you’re asking to vote for you want.
And we’re back to the start. See video and this is what you voted for protest-non-voters. At this point of going in circles I think I’m gonna peace out.