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[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

I voted in Taiwan. I had to take a 1 hour train ride to the American embassy to vote.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

Right right, it's a neat graphic, but it kind of ignores people who remember multiple presidential elections.

If we vote Democrat and then the Democrats don't do jack s*** then what surprise is it that people stay home next time? Obama was weak. Biden was weak. They could have pushed policies that would benefit the average American citizen, and they mostly didn't. The party threw us away, not the other way around.

And I still think people should vote, but you don't get to blame them for the Democrats being s*****.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so tired of this. Obviously more people need to be more politically active, but there's a lot of issues occurring that we just don't talk about enough here.

Being politically active while being a responsible and well-informed voter takes time. The first without the other two is just how you make more Republican voters. When you consider how much a lot of people are working and the other struggles they're facing it really isn't surprising that a lot of people are not that informed or active. Let's also not pretend that one party doesn't go out of its way to make it more difficult for people to vote either.

Other the other side of the issue there's a myriad of issues that have made our current democrats less motivated to be an opposition party. Also, let me just point out that a party should never sit back and watch simply because they are not currently in full control of congress at the given moment. The Republicans have led by example on this repeatedly. Even when they aren't in control they continue to be aggressive, to be disruptive, to keep a media presence. Democrats can do this too. They need to.

This isn't to say that Democrats are completely to blame. There's a lot of shitty people in this country and there are people out there that can do a bit more than what they're doing to support the cause. This is just to say that Democrats share some responsibility and some of the burden here.

Also I just want to put this out there. I know people are scared, people are angry, people are upset, but the blame game isn't doing anyone any good. It is important to understand what went wrong, but spending all our time pointing fingers is simply wasting energy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

True; they should be spending their time arming up and hitting the firing range

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

i voted for fetterman and he's more useless at resisting tyranny than a wet blanket

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