• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Generally, the more people vote, the more republicans lose. “Get out the vote” is an anti-republican message in effect, which republicans know and it’s why they try to stop people from voting.

      Instead of, you know, being electable.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        The Dems have a similar thing going on. It’s not “vote for me because I’m a great option”, it is “vote for me or democracy dies!”. If I only ever had one choice, then democracy is already dead.

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            14 days ago

            Which, again, in a sane world, is really just one choice. This, quite frankly, is the only real bullet in the “both sides are the same” argument.

            I’m not saying Harris isn’t qualified; she clearly is.

            What I’m saying is that the Republicans have had years of making their base into good little soldiers that will vote R simply because they aren’t D.

            These mouth breathers only see the letter after the name. I can’t tell you the number of times that voters came up to me when I was a poll worker and ask me who the “Republicans” were in a local election where the candidates can’t have party affiliations.

            Why yes, these were often elderly voters. What made you guess that?

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      14 days ago

      More people in general support Kamala’s policies than Trump’s. If every eligible voter voted, he’d lose, even considering people voting for third parties.

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      Yeah it’s a funny sign but ultimately useless. People who have lived through the last nearly decade dominated by Trump who still aren’t voting are either so disengaged that they just don’t see fighting Trump as an existential crisis or (and this is a much smaller group) see the system as so inherently fucked that they’re just not partaking in it.

      But maybe nobody cares for analysis ruining a perfectly funny lawn sign.

      (Disclaimer: these are just my thoughts on non voters, not my own position. I will be voting, and not for a racist, rapist, fascist)