man. i dont think any of this would be happening if people weren’t fucking lazy and just voted in November. like god damn who cares if the line is long for one night.
People don’t know how to participate in a democracy, it’s ridiculous.
If millions upon millions of people in your country want to vote far right, you’re not going to get Bernie, you have to compromise. You pick the one that has the most likelihood of pulling your country in the direction you want, because the alternative is that you don’t get anything at all. You can’t be entitled, because you have to share your country with 350 million other people. Fucking compromise or get fascism.
There are numerous ideological and philosophical frameworks that attempt to explain how fascism takes rise, so why do you just blame it on laziness?
Did Hitler come to power because of German industrialization, German embarrassment from WWI, the great depression, and other global economic hardships, or did Hitler come to power simply because Germans were lazy and didn’t vote?
Our turn towards fascism was inevitable, and it can be explained better than with some nebulous concept of “laziness”.
At the very minimum, start asking yourself why Americans are not enthusiastic about voting.
Because laziness gave it the win.
Lots of things can give rise to fascism, but when people stay at home they give it a free pass to take control. We had the easiest chance of hitting the brakes.
Voting is EASY.
All we had to do was vote. If trump doesn’t leave then it’s going to cost lives to change. Damn fool to think otherwise.
Voting May be easy where you are. But it’s literally made difficult in a lot of places. If you are new to Texas for example, getting registered to vote is a whole ordeal. It involves ancient websites to check your registration status and then if you find out you aren’t registered, you have to go to another website, fill out a bunch of information and then you have to print it out, sign it and then mail it in. And if you made any mistakes you won’t find out for 10-15 days as the mail has to get to them, they have to look it over and then they mail you a response to tell you there are errors. On top of all of that, they have a system where they pay people to report voter registration that are suspected to be fraudulent and those registrations generally get purged without notifying the voter. So if you were a false positive (many people are) and then you find out the day you go to vote that you aren’t registered, you just don’t get to vote that year.
Voting is EASY.
It is MADE to be difficult in some places purposefully. There are many ways it is done and nobody is talking about it. I don’t understand why it’s so unknown and such a ‘nonissue’
That happens every single election. How about, instead of attacking people who are rightfully unconvinced this system works, you attack the people actually doing the fascism.
You’re like a fuckin’ Russian bot, only helping to divide. Fuckin’ dumbass democrats, man. This is why you lose.
I think, not voting, is the wrong way of expressing not being convinced of the system.
I think the better approach would be vote, but try to spread the word why you’re inconvenienced, try to force government to be more transparent, sue politicians that do corrupt stuff, organise demonstrations and strike with precise demands like improve transparency of politics, found only trustworthy journalism, fact check anything and add sources to information/misinformation, track sources truthness not by 0 and 1 but between 0% and 100%, teach empathy to anybody, make music, talk to many people
But i am lucky, as my people before me have done that already, well, still hard job to maintain…
You insult this person and accuse them and dividing, only to say “fuckin Democrats, this is why you always lose”.
Who’s dividing here again, chum? Practice what you preach
I’m not a Democrat and I share their sentiment.
80 million of y’all didn’t show up and instead of looking at ourselves, we just blame the Dems for not matching our purity politics enough.
80 million didn’t show. They had weeks to turn in a vote via mail or just finding a local place to do it.
We all had options. 80 million decided to do nothing and they share just as much the blame and anyone for this.
It’s a common democrat knee jerk reaction to blame anyone but the perpetrators, that’s why. It’s course correcting.
And show me an election that doesn’t have similar numbers of non-voters. They aren’t to blame. People vote when they get inspired. And not being another person is not very inspiring.
They were supposed to vote to save what? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of people are struggling and want change. People are on the edge and are kept just complacent enough to not fall off.
I’ll say it again: Keep blaming the nonvoters and you will continue to lose. INSPIRE THEM INSTEAD.
