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Unfortunately, politicians don't usually see it the same way. Turnout has been low for decades, and young people and progressives are some of the most unreliable voting blocs, especially when people like Briahna think that not participating in the general election is sending any other message other than 'don't listen to me'. It's not even like a 'politicians are duplicitous' thing, it's survival of the fittest: conservative Democrats have a much easier job entrenching themselves than progressives because their voters are older and more reliable, so over time this just selects for more conservative politicians.
If you never appeal to them, your party will wither and die as its current crop of geriatric dipshits goes to make hell a worse place.
Democrats do everything they can to block better candidates. The genocidal shit represents you, so you pretend that it represents the will of the people.
You need more voters to win. You know where they are.