Over 1/3 of our voting population sits out every election (probably double that in non-presidential years). If even half of them showed up to vote, they’d see how much their vote matters, and why republicans go out of their way to suppress voter turnout.
If even half of them showed up for the dems, and the dems had +10 in the senate, they’d do nothing to help the people who elected them, give the Republicans half the discretionary budget in the name of bipartisanship, give the banks billions of dollars, and bomb a dozen middle eastern countries to prove they’re just as strong on foreign policy as Republicans. We know this because that is what happened. We need to focus on purging the party if we want our votes to matter in the general.
And it’s rather obvious how voters being jaded and cynical allows shitty people to stay in office and disillusion even more voters while enriching themselves and making life worse for regular people.
This is a cycle (and self-fulfilling prophecy) that we have to break. Voter apathy is the problem, and solving that would force politicians to work for us or be replaced by someone who will. These people like their power and know that no one will replace them. If we show up and make them know that their job is literally dependent on working for us, they’ll do it. But something something both sides, something something voting is pointless.
Over 1/3 of our voting population sits out every election (probably double that in non-presidential years). If even half of them showed up to vote, they’d see how much their vote matters, and why republicans go out of their way to suppress voter turnout.
If even half of them showed up for the dems, and the dems had +10 in the senate, they’d do nothing to help the people who elected them, give the Republicans half the discretionary budget in the name of bipartisanship, give the banks billions of dollars, and bomb a dozen middle eastern countries to prove they’re just as strong on foreign policy as Republicans. We know this because that is what happened. We need to focus on purging the party if we want our votes to matter in the general.
If there’s one thing the past six months have taught me it’s that republicans and democrats are exactly the same.
Oh. Wait.
They’re not the same, but it’s easy to see how people become too jaded and cynical to vote.
And it’s rather obvious how voters being jaded and cynical allows shitty people to stay in office and disillusion even more voters while enriching themselves and making life worse for regular people.
This is a cycle (and self-fulfilling prophecy) that we have to break. Voter apathy is the problem, and solving that would force politicians to work for us or be replaced by someone who will. These people like their power and know that no one will replace them. If we show up and make them know that their job is literally dependent on working for us, they’ll do it. But something something both sides, something something voting is pointless.