Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told voters who are upset over a November choice between President Biden and former President Trump to get over themselves Monday. “Get over yourself,” Cli…
Option 4: Don’t vote - Can’t think of any pros to this choice. You’re still getting Biden or Trump and you haven’t even done the bare minimum to accomplish anything. Neither party is hurt by your inaction.
I’d disagree with this slightly. You’re benefitting the minority party by not voting (and voting 3rd party for that matter) in a first past the post system. Currently in the US that would be the Republican party. Not voting does not mean you aren’t having an effect. If you don’t vote in November you’re mathematically benefitting the GOP candidate regardless. If you’re eligible to vote, there is no “sitting out” option.
I agree this option really isnt an option for anyone that cares about how our country is governed. If this is a valid choice to anyone, I’d probably question why they’re on a political forum if they don’t care about politics.
I think it would have been more constructive of us to discuss which party is actually the majority party instead of some Hillary quip from Fallon. I don’t want to believe the polls saying Trump is favored over Biden at this point because I dont want to believe so many people actually support a single thing that guy says. This is by far the easiest election decision of my lifetime.
Discussing how we can improve polls or ensure we get better candidates is what I’d like to see a Lemmy community be about, not heckling some former politician on a late night show about things we can’t do much about now.
I think its pretty evident that the majority of Americans support Democratic party policy vs the GOP. The GOP has power not because they’ve won fair democratic elections, but because they’ve gerrymandered districts and passed anti voting policies. If you run fair elections where every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote the Democrats win in a landslide most of the time.
Discussing how we boost turnout/engagement and getting more involved in the primaries is what I think we need to focus on, I think we agree there.
Voter turnout is depressing, especially when so many say they want change.
I do agree there is much gaming of the system by business and military interests, the uber wealthy, the regular wealthy, and numerous groups of bad actors from ultra conservative groups to organized hate groups. We need everyone we can participating if we want good outcomes.
I think people are inherently liberal, because the world is always still moving forward. But overcoming a well entrenched and systematically reinforced hierarchy requires massive effort beyond raging at stories like this one.
Yelling at people or preaching to the choir funny solve anything. We need to focus on awareness and education on issues and what people can do about them.
I’d disagree with this slightly. You’re benefitting the minority party by not voting (and voting 3rd party for that matter) in a first past the post system. Currently in the US that would be the Republican party. Not voting does not mean you aren’t having an effect. If you don’t vote in November you’re mathematically benefitting the GOP candidate regardless. If you’re eligible to vote, there is no “sitting out” option.
I agree this option really isnt an option for anyone that cares about how our country is governed. If this is a valid choice to anyone, I’d probably question why they’re on a political forum if they don’t care about politics.
I think it would have been more constructive of us to discuss which party is actually the majority party instead of some Hillary quip from Fallon. I don’t want to believe the polls saying Trump is favored over Biden at this point because I dont want to believe so many people actually support a single thing that guy says. This is by far the easiest election decision of my lifetime.
Discussing how we can improve polls or ensure we get better candidates is what I’d like to see a Lemmy community be about, not heckling some former politician on a late night show about things we can’t do much about now.
I think its pretty evident that the majority of Americans support Democratic party policy vs the GOP. The GOP has power not because they’ve won fair democratic elections, but because they’ve gerrymandered districts and passed anti voting policies. If you run fair elections where every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote the Democrats win in a landslide most of the time.
Discussing how we boost turnout/engagement and getting more involved in the primaries is what I think we need to focus on, I think we agree there.
Voter turnout is depressing, especially when so many say they want change.
I do agree there is much gaming of the system by business and military interests, the uber wealthy, the regular wealthy, and numerous groups of bad actors from ultra conservative groups to organized hate groups. We need everyone we can participating if we want good outcomes.
I think people are inherently liberal, because the world is always still moving forward. But overcoming a well entrenched and systematically reinforced hierarchy requires massive effort beyond raging at stories like this one.
Yelling at people or preaching to the choir funny solve anything. We need to focus on awareness and education on issues and what people can do about them.