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Listen, I don't have it in me to bother going back to find the research but a few things:
Without any of the research, maybe don't blame people for how they vote but blame the DNC as its literally their job to energize people to vote by having policies that make people want to vote.
Without research, people voting for PSL/Green and still voting Dem/progressive down ballot is a whole lot better than the alternative of zero votes. Yelling at people they have to vote how you tell them isn't gonna make anything happen. Let people vote how they want.
With research, "Progressives" vote more consistently for democrats than literally any other ideological group by % total population of said group (meaning they looked at non-voters as well)
With research, 3rd party leans HEAVILY right for votes. I forget the exact number but I think it was about 4x as many in libertarian/constitution compared to Green/PSL.
Fuck off with attacking people who literally just... could not stand for voting to commit genocide? I mean you shouldn't be attacking the left at all, but specifically people who morally refuse to vote for someone who wants more genocide? Really? Anti-anti-genocide isn't far from anti-antifa. Which like, oof.
See that's the thing. None of us were voting to commit genocide. We were voting for president.
I was about to ask what the fuck kind of dumbass statement is saying voting for president isn’t voting for policies but the party of “nothing will fundamentally change” doesn’t really have policy so I guess that tracks for a Dem.