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Treating someone's current status as a nonvoter as an identity to be judged ("nonvoters are to blame!") rather than a group of people to potentially mobilize, you are just feeding the dynamics of shame and alienation that aid in voter suppression. Also, it's just fucking wrong.
When you vilify nonvoters as the problem, you erase sweeping, calculated efforts to suppress Black and Native votes, as well as other votes. Most white people do nothing to organize against those constraints, and just scream at people to stay in line on election day.
This society deprives a lot of people with few resources of precious information, and often keeps people politically isolated from each other. Also, candidates are *supposed* to earn votes. That's their job. You may not like that, but it's actually how shit's supposed to work.
So when a campaign fails to get people to the polls & you blame the people it did not successfully activate, you're setting the party up for continuous failure. At some point, candidates have to actually wage campaigns that move people to vote, rather than rely on fear & panic.
That's what got us here. An insistence on brand loyalty, no matter how little the candidate offers ppl, or how uninspired people are by the campaign. And rather than motivating people to support, the doubtful & disillusioned are met w disdain, contempt and angry marching orders.
Every time a campaign loses, vote shamers should take a break from whining about people who didn't vote and consider how their constant expressions of contempt for nonvoters might have affected the situation. You don't get to judge others when you indulge in this behavior.
