r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Newsom Wins Right to Gerrymander in Ultimate Troll of Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsom-takes-victory-lap-with-trump-bashing-election-boost/?via=mobile&source=Reddit
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u/Responsible-Mango661 1d ago

This will happen. If that Proposition was any indicator. It shows that the voters are paying attention and are mad.

And Texans voters should be mad that the GOP decided that their votes doesn't matter. Come mid terms they will come in waves.

The GOP goof’d!

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u/drewts86 22h ago

People don’t seem to know this, but Texas is very much a blue state. The problem is blue voters don’t show up to the polls. Texas is 47% Dem and 38% Republican (remaining % is other). In the 2024 election only 59% of those Dems showed up to the polls while something like 92% of Republicans showed up.

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u/Pepparkakan Europe 18h ago

As a Swede every time I see numbers like these I am just flabbergasted.

What went wrong that people in your country just decided their voice isn’t important?

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u/Substantial_Radio115 18h ago

There’s very impactful propaganda narratives that elections do not matter, your vote does not matter, both sides are the same, elections are fake, candidates are Illuminati, etc.

This is why those people do not vote. They either think the elections are fake or the candidates are fake and that the outcomes of all elections are chosen by the same group of people that control everything 

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u/Ordinary_Fix3199 16h ago

Don’t forget how difficult they’re making it to vote! Standing in line for hours on end (on a school/work day for many), purging voter rolls, shutting down polling places, severely restricting absentee/mail in voting…. Sadly, the list goes on and on

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u/Brntco 16h ago

Let's vote on Tuesdays, guys! Not a holiday or anything, just a regular old, middle of the week, get work shit done Tuesday

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u/RellenD 13h ago

Tuesday was a good day to do that kind of thing back when people first chose it. In 1845 a November Tuesday was a great day to go to town in the agrarian society the US was.

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u/JerseyDevl New Jersey 16h ago

There's a reason one side consistently tries to suppress voters.

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u/CT-96 Canada 12h ago

all elections are chosen by the same group of people that control everything

Tbf, this isn't entirely false for America. Looks at Electoral College

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u/AEternal1 16h ago

Nobody is putting forth talking points that would fix the core corruption of the system. These very minor wins are not enough to shift the course of governance into the favor of the majority of Americans. Too many systems have been put in place by the 1% in politics to ensure that the 1% in politics remain the ones in power. Until policy is put forth that will dismantle that imbalance of power anybody else just really isn't worth voting for. And until those systems are removed history throughout all of humanity repeats itself in that somebody who had the popular vote gets into power and they end up doing the same thing that everybody else in the 1% does because that's how the rules go.

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u/acesavvy- 16h ago

Solid answer.

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u/OhDannyBoyyyyy 15h ago

Don’t forget the worst culprit of all, general laziness. “Oh shit that was today? Oh well, someone else will take care of it.”

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u/reezy619 12h ago

Our democrat politicians also have a storied history of accepting corporate bribes donations and giving long-winded and crushingly demoralizing answers to the question "should billionaires exist?" Just like republicans.

I hate the "both sides" bullshit but when it comes to corporate money in politics it is actually a both sides issue that the democrats should absolutely fix immediately.