I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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    It sounds like you had similar hopes with me and other Harris voters. It does stand to fact that you did do something more significant than a big number of 2020 blue voters by actually showing up to the booth. It also sounds like the emotional or symbolic nature of your vote has a higher value for you than for some people.

    I do apologize that my questioning was causing some distress or time loss. With that in mind feel free to ignore my follow-up query:

    • Was 2024 the first time you voted 3rd party or protested the D-R binary?
    • At what point in time did you decide you were going to protest/third party vote (and if there was a “trigger moment,” that would be enlightening)?
    • How long has Gaza/apartheid Israel been in, say, your top three concerns when voting (decades, years, months…)?
    • Was 2024 the first time you voted 3rd party or protested the D-R binary?

      In 2020, I intended to vote for Hawkins, and then within an hour of voting, I was temporarily convinced of the utilitarian perspective, and I regretted it the last four years

      At what point in time did you decide you were going to protest/third party vote (and if there was a “trigger moment,” that would be enlightening)?

      I don’t remember a specific first time, but regularly throughout Biden’s presidency. I said to myself, “I can’t believe I fucking voted for that guy- I’m not voting for these people again”

      How long has Gaza/apartheid Israel been in, say, your top three concerns when voting (decades, years, months…)?

      Since it became clear that the US was enabling a genocide, in late 2023