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I voted for Harris in nov. But you are blaming the people with the least amount of power.
Democrats could have… you know… appealed to their voters instead of fund and arm a genocide, fund the police more than has ever been done, and ran on racist border fascism. They didn’t appeal to their voters and their voters didn’t show. Harris, Biden and all the people advising them should be the ones we direct our anger at not the voters who didn’t vote for something they weren’t inspired by.
Yeah agreed on all of that and yet the vote was still the easiest fucking choice of our lifetimes
Agreed. If voting was really easy or mandatory Harris would have won. But republicans and the courts make it hard so that there are tons of barriers for people to cast non fascist votes.
I filled out 2 forms and mailed them to my election office during the 2 months preceding the election. How much easier can we make it?
We could make it that easy in every state instead of just yours.
To vote in Texas:
Much easier. Automatic registration, mail in ballots, etc etc. More progressive states are much better at this.
But Republicans purged voter rolls, made sure lines were extremely long by under staffing, made it illegal to hand out food and water in lines, making it illegal for felons to vote when felons are intentionally mostly poor and minorities, etc etc etc.
your experiences are not universal. The more marginalized a person is the more likely it will be hard for them to vote.
Sure, but none of that competes with the causes "I just didn't feel like it" or "I'm not into politics".
Well, grats. Politics are into you.
Restrictions on voting were put in place in many places around the country
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/07/28/mail-in-absentee-ballot-voter-id-purges-drop-box-maps/74527270007/
Much. Automated voter registration, national holiday to give everyone a time outside of work to vote, national mail-in voting, penalty fee for those who didn't vote (like Australia, something small like $5), change from FPTP to a STAR or Ranked or Approval Voting system, better information sent to each voter about the running candidates, ect
Seriously, the government knows how old you are. Birth certificates, IDs, taxes, insurance, school requirements, requirement to sign up for the draft if you are a man by 18. They know where you live and how to find you. Most people down to a ~10 meter radius at all times unless you don't have your phone on you. Everyone should be automatically registered for presidential & VP voting. If you have an ID then they recorded your address to acquire the ID. You should be automatically assigned to that addresses precinct/district/county/state/federal officials that come from that area. If you do not have an ID, you should be able to go online or in person to submit a proof of address for free. If a person votes twice, it should flag the federal government for having 2 votes from the same individual, the state, county, district and precinct without an issue. All precincts have cameras and you aren't allowed to wear face coverings (hair allowed) when voting. This means when you receive a ballot there wil be a recording of you being present. If the person attempts votes twice, they can confirm if it was the same person or if someone was trying to vote in their place.
Up the voter fraud charge to minimum 10 years in prison unless coerced and fully cooperate in apprehending whomever did such; who should be charged with the equivalent of treason. (Life in prison, or the death penalty.... Not my personal choice, that's just the penalty for treason federally).
I'd say more but I've already rambled and I'm sure I've said enough to find dispute in many.
Fuck the genocide. We have a real crisis at home now because people put another country ahead of ours.
Again, I agree as I voted for Harris. But the real villains are the people with actual power who made consequential decisions that fucked us all.
I agree with you on that. They rolled right over before it was even bedtime on election night.
I would hope that someone else would do the same for me. We are all humans together, national barriers are a fiction made up by those who want to oppress you.
I don't. These people clearly did not vote with Gaza's best interests in mind.
If you want to fuck both our counties with virtue signaling, well you can fuck right off.
Nah, virtue signalling isn't what got us here. It's spineless fucks who keep expecting fascists to fight fair.
So you are saying that you will happily sacrifice minorities abroad so long as you can get your way?
I think they are saying that they would begrudgingly vote for a candidate that may not fit their views or morals entirely in consideration of a historically complex and volatile situation going on in a different country that would continue regardless of the election here, in order to prevent a worse situation from forming there, and prevent a fascist regime from taking hold in their own country.
On a related note, who did you vote for?
I begrudgingly voted for Harris, but i understand why millions of people that voted for Biden in 2020 didn't vote for her. The system is inherently broken and Harris was offering to keep things the same. Until the Dems try to actually earn votes, not just be the default, they will continue to eat shit in elections.
She was an idiot for making it appear she was going to keep things the same, but I doubt she would have. She was basically looking at "more people than ever before in any election ever voted for Biden" and he's decaying and I need his voter base to win, so she didn't want to speak poorly of him
Edit: for info, Biden had almost $4 million more votes in 2020 than Trump in 2024 while the population grew by 6 million people. Meaning as much as the GOP is selling that Trump did historic things in voting, Biden was vastly more popular than Trump
Throw in: percentage wise, Biden beat Trump in 2020 more than 3x as bad as Trump beat Harris in 2024. Yet they call it a historical or "huge" win
When you run to the right, the right doesn't buy it. The left does.
She was willing to contradict him by moving to his right.
What did she say that was moving to his right?
She said she would appoint a Republican to her cabinet, something Biden did not do.
So, what is your answer to your own question up there?
Aside from what Byremeister said (which was spot on) when the choice is save minorities at home, I will always vote yes.