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metroid composite posted...

I think extending it to the voters is a bit complicated.

It's complicated but so is quantum mechanics. But both are doable and EXTREMELY important to understand, so what kind of excuse is this?

But we're not even talking about the complicated parts. Where you might support free college tuition, but that means a much payroll tax, which creates a welfare ceiling for a lot of poor kids, so they are forced to go into the military, which enables causes higher military engagement worldwide, etc. We're talking about something much simpler.

If you support, ignore, or don't explicitly denounce the warmongering of your voting candidate, then you absolutely share some blame for war. You are part of the popular support that is required for any democratic government to wage war. If you voted for Obama super reluctantly because at least he's better than Romney, that's more complicated sure. But if you voted for Bush/Obama because you liked them, you share the blame. If you don't throw up a bit every time you think about Obama's peace prize, you share the blame. If you ignore decades of history in order to defend Trump's escalation of war, you share the blame. If you sing about how Hillary should've won because Trump stoked war, you share the blame. These are not complicated situations.


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