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Over under on this being a relatively dull midterms? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by RedWizard@hexbear.net to c/electoralism@hexbear.net

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I'm not talking about wild race outcomes. That's "normal".

I'm talking about the lib doomsayer predictions:

Polls being shut down by the feds
state of emergency being declared
terror at the ballot box
anarchy in the streets
trump rejecting the outcome if the there is a blue wave.
American Communism being ushered via electoral democracy!
proud boys doing proud boy things

I already visited a poll today, it was like any other midterm election. Uneventful. Not even the cranks were out.

Nothing ever happens gang is on the ballot this year folks, and I think the polls are looking good.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I don't deny that I live in a very white town within a very white state, and everything @came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net points out is correct. However, I don't believe it is POC communities that are acting as frantic doomsayers about the midterms, since everything @came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net pointed out has been the historical norm for a very long time. Part of that "nothing ever happens" includes nothing good happening either, like an improvement in the voting conditions for marginalized communities. That was never really on the table though; I think we know that. The doomsayers are white liberals from my assessment, which holds true in my personal circles at least. People I know have told me that this midterm was going to be cancelled, that the results would be overruled, and that "they" (white liberals) would be "silenced" by Donald Trump if we don't "do something" (aka vote ). My town (full of old white boomer retirees) had the state police run a drill inside our town hall about a week ago to prepare for ICE showing up at the polls.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Republicans won’t shut down the midterms, they already know, as someone pointed out, they don’t need to, it’s not worth it. But there’s really all sorts of ways to tip the scalesc such as what you mentioned, ICE intimidation

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

libs also said bush was going to cancel elections too.

of course, the bushes did have a recount canceled to start his presidency.... so maybe the unrealistic lib doomsday on voting day prediction thing is also part of the background radiation / nothing ever happens and not noteworthy? i mean if we're going to dismiss phenomena that have been around for years just because they've been happening already in some form.

at a certain point though, if nothing ever counts as happening, then what are we even looking for to comment on anymore?