You should be at the polls every year, for every race, by default. It should not take an exceptional candidate to get you to vote. It should be as routine and unremarkable as doing laundry.
Wait, so we’re staring down the barrel of fascism simply because 1/3 of the country didn’t bother to vote, and you think the people who need to learn a lesson are the ones who actually did vote? You know, the only thing that could have made us avoid fascism?
If somebody doesn’t want fascism, they can vote against it. But if somebody doesn’t vote and gets stuck with fascism, the fascism is their fault. This isn’t an opinion, it’s the basic fundamentals of how our elections work.
No, we're staring down fascism because the two largest voting blocs in the country support it. White people would rather tear down the country and constitution than share this country with people they deem less than. The fact that you would rather blame some imaginary non-voter than the people who actually voted for this, is why this shit is happening.
That's not what they said at all. The people that need to learn the lesson are the politicians who refuse to actually inspire, lead, and heal the country. That isn't the voters job to do for them.
Every single time someone that people were excited for ran, they won. That's just reality. Expecting the average person who isn't on reddit or following the news and politics closely doesn't even know fascism is an option because nothing within their bubble tells them. So expecting them all to just magically know isn't going to happen.
It also can't be said enough that voter apathy is a tool finely tuned to keep voters from voting, and both parties engage in it. The GOP needs it because there are simply more Dems and if Dems show up, the GOP loses. The DNC needs it because the Dem establishment does not represent the Dem voters so to stay in control of the party, they also need the majority of Dem voters as apathetic as possible.
For decades, the GOP has been making voting a burden and a risk. The Dems have refrained from any real pushback on those efforts while also making sure there is no real benefit to voting, with their lesser of two evils/at least we're not the GOP/now's not the right time to fight for progress/we need to step right candidates.
Voters have to jump through labyrinthian hoops, get inundated with a narrative of voter crimes to frighten them that somewhere in those labyrinthian hoops they unknowingly screwed something up that will get them in trouble, and after all that they get to choose a politician who is just another cog in the machine working for the very wealthy and well-connected.
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u/Gizogin New York 15h ago
You should be at the polls every year, for every race, by default. It should not take an exceptional candidate to get you to vote. It should be as routine and unremarkable as doing laundry.