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That's power, bud, but it's misplaced. It's Harris that has the power to respond to those voters, or to ignore them. As you mentioned, the cost of ignoring them could put a dictator in place.
Their vote puts a dictator in place and Harris is the bad guy for not stroking their egos enough? Gotcha.
Giving voters what they want and winning them over is "stroking their egos" now? That's such a cynical way to look at your fellow voting Americans. They are not your enemy.
Come on man... they got us pumping anti-democratic sentiment like it's the divine right of kings... no fucking wonder the democrats don't ever feel the need to run on actually popular policies and at least keep things centered. We're more than happy to deep throat the boot either way.
Candidates get themselves elected by pledging to address voters' concerns - if anyone has an ego here it's Harris and liberals like yourself who think they are owed votes they haven't made any effort to get.