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Don't believe the hype, FUCKING VOTE!!! Volunteer to give rides for those that can't make it to vote otherwise.
Believe this hype; You can make a difference.
I lived in Florida in 2000. If I had recruited a couple friends, and I knew people who would have been down, and we drove vans back and forth to the polls all day...
512 votes would have made a difference.
Awesome job!
What I mean by don't believe the hype is people tend to not vote when they think they're going to win in a landslide. Which of course, they would IF they vote. We ended up with Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence because Hillary was kicking his ass in the polls so voter turnout was lower.
Regardless, VOTE
On a side note: Just the fucking fact that people would need a ride to vote also shows that
a) Voting is too damn hard in the US. I know that the Republican party has been working (and keeps working) hard on making voting nearly impossible, because less votes is better for them, but seriously: make voting easier.
b) The US is extremely over dependent on cars. In the Netherlands almost nobody would drive their car to go vote, you use a bike. Why? Because the cities in the country are designed for people first, not for cars first. Start modifying your cities to not require cars. Add bicycle roads, actually invest in public transportation, add pedestrian walk ways. The US sucks for human beings, it's awesome for cars.
It's too damn hard in certain states.
I'm in California, and am signed up for vote by mail, which anyone can do. Ballot gets mailed to me well in advance, I can take my time filling it out and researching down ballot issues, and plop it in a mailbox when I'm done.
It's criminal to me that this isn't the norm.
I live in Colorado, and I feel the same way about this. I love the way voting works here. This should be the norm. It should be REQUIRED at the federal level that this is an offering in every state in the land.
Any state that is not doing this does not care at all about the democratic process, IMHO, given there are outstanding examples of states that do.
There are loads of states that don't want democracy, they want a theocratic republican dictatorship and if they can't get that through voting they'll get it through cheating, just like Jesus taught them.
Voting is bullshit here, thanks to the republikkklowns. I'm hoping when the VP becomes president, we can remedy some of that.
Your point on the cars. Your example country is 237 times smaller than ours. .42%. We have 342 million people compared to their almost 19 million. What works there won't work here. It would be great to step up public transportation but that's not the end all answer.
Nonsense. India's population is far greater than the US, and they can do better elections than the US. Saying that you can't do bicycle roads in the US because what works in the Netherlands doesn't work in bigger countries is, again, nonsense. Mexico is adding bicycle roads. Canada is. Why can't the US?
Where the hell are you? My city just added a bunch of bike roads, but that's going to work great in the country isn't it? Nothing like riding a bike twenty miles to town to grab some groceries and ride back in the rain or snow.
The vast majority of the population lives in small, medium, and large cities where you can easily commute the < 1.5kilometer / 1 mile walking, or the < 10 kilometers / < 6 miles on a bike Whether you go to work, a store, whatever, that's easy for the vast majority of people world wide. If done well, public transportation would be a great option for larger distances.
I'm not advocating banning cars outright, I'm advocating pushing sustainable transportation, we can reduce traffic by 70-80%, it's a huge chunk of CO2
This is what I did for the 2018 midterms. Some of my friends didn't really get why I was so adamant, but I dropped their assess at the church and let them vote. It do work.
Yes, I was like "Oh, thank christ" when i saw this headline, but also fear this is right propaganda to relax voters. VOTE!