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Hm.. it's almost like if you want change, you need to vote. Sitting out or spoiling your vote doesn't do much more than literally nothing.
Who knew? Apparently all it needed was a little pain and chaos, the loss of healthcare, snap, LGBT rights, a felon in the Whitehouse ignoring congress and the judiciary, a stacked supreme court, a govt shutdown, unemployment. Inflation, high grocery prices, extrajudiciary assassinations of foreign nationals, coercion of foreign policy, open interference in another countrys elections, censorship of the media, restarting of nuclear tests, literal demolition of parts of the office of the executive branch, ...
But I'm sure all of that was only a distraction from what was really happening.
Now, where are those Epstein files?
I'll never get over these type of comments in political communities...
It's like going to a baseball game in person and complaining that broadcast viewership numbers are down...
We're not the "casual market" absolutely no one who needs to be told that is here or will ever see those comments.
But we're the ones voting in primaries, we're supposed to be picking the candidate most likely to represent the will of the Dem voter base.... We're more GMs than hardcore fans.
As a whole, the politically active members of the Dem party who vote in primaries have not been making good enough selections to convince the "casuals" to vote in the general.
Shitting on absentee people who can't defend themselves may feel good, but why wouldn't we use these spaces to talk about what works?
Which in this case is increasing Dem primary turnout as much as possible to ensure candidates like Mamdani keep making it to the general...
The thing is Mamdani and others have put in the work to get the attention of voters that normally don't care. His platform was more universally liked and was viewed as the person trying to get people what they needed instead of just being another "lesser evil". If the Dems want more of that, then they need more like him and less like Biden, Hillary, and Harris. Establishment Dems won't get this kind of turnout.
Who knew that when trustworthy politicians with real change proposal participate the turnout increase. Which most countries lack right now
One candidate is clearly corrupt, serving only the oligarchs and foreign genocidal nations. People stay home.
One candidate clearly shows he is listening and cares about his voters. People show up to vote.
Nothing has changed just yet, besides who's at the desk. Get organized! Get involved in your community, run in the midterms!
Like you said, you need to vote… so if they can’t vote then they can’t come out. Duh!
Yeah it's amazing that people go out and vote when, you know, there are actually primaries and the Democratic Party runs candidate that the constituencies actually want. Who could have known?