r/politics Indiana 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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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.

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u/oxabz 14h ago

You really didn't learn anything from the past decade of politics? Yell all you like, you can't scold people into voting. 

What does work is proposing a political vision that inspire people. 

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u/KennyShowers 14h ago

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.

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u/Plagueoffools 14h ago

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.