Great looking post, but why the voter apathy at all? Turning up to vote is part of the competition of ideas... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If live pay check to paycheck and have to take the day off to vote, it’s very unlikely that your employer will pay you for that day off. It’s also unlikely that they’ll let you take just the time off you need. Especially if you’re in retail or service work.

And the there’s all the shenanigans getting played like having exactly 1 under staffed poling place in blue districts specifically so it takes you 8+ hours to vote. Or the armed thugs that make it dangerous. Or the lawyers that come for you because it was hot and you shared water with someone.

I feel for you, but it only gets worse without voting. The evidence is there, it's an own goal.

That being said, I'd like to see countries follow examples like in Germany where the vote is held on a Sunday (that being said Sunday is still historically a day when most people don't work).

Democrats need to run a candidate that motivated voters like Obama and Bernie not people that bore the shit out of them like Pete Hillary Biden Kamala and I’d say Gavin but he might actually entertain people

I totally agree ! And release the Epstein files

Where do these stats come from? Because I think they're made up

What!

Ah, excuse me! I was probably being paranoid

Agreed. I don’t believe any of the shite posted here. 90% BS!❤️

No Republican Party but a saved America & her democracy. Good trade. Let’s see 70% voter turn out!!!💙

We have the security mechanisms to allow vote by phone. That would mean real democracy.

That's IF we are allowed to Vote by November 2026. 😰

Or competition of voter suppression, voter tampering by removing Democratic votes. Me thinks Repugnicans know this math as well. Instead of "Can you just find me 11,000 votes" it's now, Elon, can you just make it look like "11,000" Dems didn't vote? Hmmm... 🚬😎

Let's perpetuate the decline just like our cult leaders request of us without ever offering anything in return If you don't want your nation fucked Stop supporting the corporate puppets and the capitalist system that is designed to fuck you over and fuck the planet in the process

And then when the Democrats win they do nothing of consequence for the American people. In fact they often collude with the Republicans like Clinton did.

Murc's law

If this is true what shall we do to make this happen? We need ideas & boots on the ground.

That's right--it's going to be all about voter turnout.

There is no greater task right now than wiping the GOP off the face of the Earth. It stands in the way of every other goal.

How do we get democrats to care enough to vote?

Tell them, if they don't, we are one election from Dictator Donold for life.

not just any Dem… they need to actually hold genuinely progressive ideals, and vote with progress for all Americans in mind. RN there are far too many centrist, corporate dems that only listen to their largest donors.

Lol imagine thinking electoralism will defeat fascism

Problem is that the Dems keep sacrificing themselves on far-left hill. Demanding gender identity info in public schools, throwing gays under the bus while alienating men especially men of color, was political suicide. AND they were warned of that in 2016!

American Dems are far left?!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

bro staple good prices are up 25% since 2020, nobody give a fuck about trans people anymore.

panem et circenses Hate to say it but capitalism is the ultimate opiate. Literally creating problems that can be solved by creating more problems. That and it’s a fucking pyramid scheme.

If only everyone that doesn't vote would stop acting like this issue is gonna fix itself without their help.... ppl need to step tf up.

What will it take for Americans to vote for their own healthcare?

You hopefully will get a chance to recover from this shitshow. Miss it and it will be permanent. It’s up to you but don’t expect the rest of us to feel sorry for you. Trump in fact could be the best thing that ever happened to you.

It's all rigged. Representatives on both sides are all on the epstein list and are complicit in committing genocide as we speak. Wake up and make a difference

Ironically, the Dems in the last election made sure to depress the turnout.

Except it would because the one percent would just by the the democrats to get them to do what they want. Which is literally what has been happening my entire life.

there have certainly been corporate democrats, but they also won due to lack of engagement. People got apathetic and so the wrong people won spots they never should have. When the people are engaged, better people run for office. They also are willing to vote out the money that bribes them all.

You have more faith in politicians than I do.

Given that they run the political structure, what’s the alternative?

The real secret to changing the structure is to start from the bottom. Your local governments your mayors your city councils your school boards your county seats your state seats that’s where the real change starts.

And yet they are politicians. See Eric Adams.

People are just people. If you’re looking for Saints they don’t exist.

Are you stealing my point?

Lol. My point is that you have to work from the bottom up because it’s the people at the bottom that eventually fill the top. You can’t go top down for a change.

Voting is now obsolete. We are under fascist rule.

So how do we drive engagement??

Keep talking about what Dumpy is doing to our democracy. Don’t forget about his pal, Epstein.

75% LET’S WIPE THEM OFF THE PLANET!!! Seriously let’s do this so in the future if you want to know how fucked up being a republican was you’ll need to take a history class.

...and when the Dems win, they will maintain the status quo and forgive the Reps, because that's what they do. The system will remain the same, the rich get richer and the rest can fight over the scraps.

If you can't understand the things that will change (ie a congress and house that lets him do anything he wants) then you aren't paying attention

You obviously don't know who the democratic party is.

We are the majority if we all vote.

I still have a hard time forgiving the 36.5% non-voters.

I just don't understand why people don't bother to vote. The consequences are so enourmous.

I can't figure out how people can be so tuned out while we are facing unprecedented stuff right now! I mean, we really need all hands on deck--but there are only a few people I know who even care to talk about what's going on. Everyone else seems to be tuned out completely, or in a MAGA trance. 😵‍💫

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... They're actively making it difficult for people to vote.

People want somebody to vote for, not just vote against

Biden had the best economy in the world but Americans voted for tRump because of the economy. Figure that fucker out.

Maybe that’s true but if so what are they doing to help find & promote such people? People are just too unengaged to be bothered.

This is it right here. All these loons screech endlessly on here about why this or that candidate lost but the reality is almost certainly not any issue, but lazy fucks shirking their civic duty. Many just are trying to deflect their own irresponsibility after the fact.

Agreed.

How did that work out?

Yes they do, and I get it, but the idealist view is out the window right now. We must SURVIVE full-on authoritarian rule & the more power the right grabs, the easier it is for them to implement. Read about Thiel, Yarvin, etc plans to replace all democracies with “for-profit sovereign corporations.”

That’s nice, but sometimes the lesser of two evils is still a good reason to vote

Yes, at this time especially, it very much is a good reason to vote.

I appreciate the person (Eleanor____) who reposted me, critiqued, and blocked me so I couldn’t respond. Such integrity for someone disputing the value of voting even if you don’t think either candidate is righteous No, Eleanor — we have the perfect example right now of the difference between…

“Lesser evil” and Greater fucking fascist evil. The voter’s responsibility is to do what’s best in the situation and sometimes it’s not what they would wish to have Not everyone agrees it’s between evils — but you still have a choice to make if you do

The problem is that constantly voting lesser evil eventually slides you further right. Eventually you vote lesser evil and then watch them pay for a genocide as you work for starvation wages.

Nice platitude, but not true

So we definitely didnt see burned children on our timeliness under Biden the self proclaimed zionist?

Learn what a “platitude” is

Bro, this attitude led to Trump getting elected twice. He would have won in 2020 if not for Covid

Not a platitude, and objectively what happened in the last election.

Please cite evidence of this slide to the right. And that people were voting lesser evil, not candidates they actually supported. Sorry, but you are just repeating a nicely worded political narrative. Sounds profound, but doesn’t actually bear out

Look at how the democrats have been talking about immigration for the last five years. They've completely acquiesced to the conservative talking points and have move to the right on that issue. Look at how Democrats have been talking about trans people for the last year.

Those who want me shot, or Republicans. Those who berate me despite voting for them under duress, or those who berate me for voting against them. Those who want to take away rights, or those would rather fight me than protect those rights. "Neither" is a better choice than partisan loyalty.

Said most of the folks rounded up on Kristallnacht.

Have fun in the concentration camp.

340 million people in the U.S. and all you can come up with is the lesser of two evils? Ridiculous.

340 million people aren’t eligible to vote and 40-50% of those who are don’t bother, are offended by the candidates, don’t do politics, etc I didn’t pick the candidates

sure, but unfortunately you have to engage with the REALITY that people do not always think purely logically, and you need to inspire them with candidates that can move mountains in order to get high turnout. that’s just how it is.

Of course. But we also need to dispel this current (and somewhat intentionally spread) perception that your vote is a gift you only bestow upon the most perfect candidate or else you are perfectly justified in taking your ball and going home People who win by depressing turnout love that concept

i think the issue at hand is that genocide is so reprehensible, that merely describing someone who refuses to plainly admonish israel for their actions goes beyond simply not being “the perfect candidate” i understand why someone wouldnt be motivated to vote when the party doesnt call it a genocide

When the other option is a good friend of the guy committing the genocide? Does that holding a moral high ground seem smart or play right into their hands?

im not saying they made the right choice, im only saying i understand WHY they made it this loops back around to people being emotional instead of logical, and you have to overcome that with charisma and consistent, impressive rhetoric like Mamdani has done in NYC.

We also need to have discussions about our responsibilities as citizens and voters. And do a better job in schools of teaching civics and politics (not in terms of partisanship but rights and responsibilities). Some want to dumb us down, same ppl who want us to not vote

sure i agree, but the candidates need to engage with the current moment in order to win rather than an ideal future world where everyone is a perfect citizen. if they don’t engage properly, they will fail to mobilize their base like in november. we can’t blame voters for this; that just won’t work.

Trump embraces evil in all its glory. The were no "two evils" in the last election.

Agreed, but not going to try to convince people of that now — was trying to make a point to them accepting their premise

That's great, now if you ask yourself why this argument, which has been the premier argument for going on 10 years for the Democrats, generally doesn't get people out to the polls to vote, we might actually get somewhere.

Well, 66% of eligible voters came out in 2020. In 2024, was about 64%. The difference between the candidates in 24 was about 1.3%. Interesting that the idea that not voting was pushed so hard in the last election

Oh cool, those are wonderful statistics, I'm sure you spent a lot of time researching them. none of this will convince a person who doesn't want to vote to go out and vote.

Maybe not, but not going to tell them it’s ok not to. Or that it’s better to not vote if they aren’t thrilled with either candidate. Or that their vote is some gift to bestow only if their specific standards are perfectly met — otherwise forget it

Awesome, And you can stand high on that Ivory Tower, and then wonder why you keep losing. Or you can demand better candidates.

The only reliable way to get people to the polls is to get candidates who are exciting. YOu can hate that, you can hate that people won't vote for their best interest. You can stamp and scream about it, call non voters idiots til your face is fucking blue. Doesn't change it.

Yes, don’t try to disabuse ppl of misguided ideas that are also pushed by people who benefit from depressed turnout. Yes, don’t encourage people to use their power. We should concentrate on entertaining and cajoling them with someone’s idea of “exciting” Of course candidates have to appeal to the…

That gets conservatives to the polls, but that's about it.

2020 saw 66% turnout

Yep, and a third of them said, "nope." With Joe a shoe in, no one cared.

It was the highest turnout since 1908 So people got the lesson of 2016. It can be understood that voting is important and a responsibility

Sure, 66% had something to vote for, or against. Did it create a zeitgeist for civic responsibility? The answer is, there's an orange turd in the whites only house.

When both of the evils want you exterminated, or at least express antipathy to your survival, then neither evil is acceptable. Remember that "First they came..." is a short poem; throwing those that are targeted first under the bus will not spare you.

“Both of the evils want you exterminated” That’s just ridiculous

Thank you for proving my point. When both parties defend anti-trans rhetoric, support military force against the same demographics, and engage in the same type of derogatory interaction with people who call you out, the only difference is not morality but simply the color of their team jersey.

Both parties? — please That’s just bullsht

Thank you for doubling down on proving my point. Now, if you can convince me that Biden, Newsom, DNC leadership, and those who support them are not affiliated with Democrats in any way, shape, or form, then you may be worth continuing to engage with. Otherwise, just keep proving me correct.

Yeah, nothing I’ve said has proven you right — that’s not happening just like what you claim Dems are doing isn’t happening

Newsom literally just publicly said that trans athletes shouldn't be allowed to participate barely three months ago. It's fucking bizarre that you would try to claim he's a trans ally.

maybe but its not how you get 60% voter turnout

In 2020, about 66% turned out In 2024, people decided that not voting or leaving the top of the ticket blank would make an impactful statement. People spread this idea that their vote should be “earned” only by meeting their standards or nothing The people who win by depressing the vote cheered

maybe they should do something so people don't feel like they should leave the ballot blank

to be clear i am talking about a) not throwing a vulnerable minority under the bus, that is an unforced error and demotivates people, and b) m4a, increased minimum wage, or some other easy to understand popular policy platform

Up until this last election, the lesser of two evils essentially meant a wrecked economy, people had become too comfortable in there being no immediacy to their vote need and they naively didn't foresee a national collapse

Mmmnope. Obama was elected after the Bush crash and ppl’s votes resulted in an immediate turnaround. After trump 1, we were in an economic crash AND public health crisis that were both turned around by the voters choice. So ppl did have stark choices and immediate results

The pandemic was happening regardless of the president, his handling of it was a fuck up of epic proportions, but it would've happened. Neither of your other points negates what I stated.

The response to the pandemic was trump’s fuck up. Biden came in when the vaccine was available but couldn’t get distributed in any coherent way. Biden fixed that definitively in a way trump couldn’t and wouldn’t. So not just the 24 election was critical and had immediate ramifications

"that's nice, but what if we crush your neck with a rainbow colored boot and tell you to fuck yourself when you ask for healthcare?" cool dude

Because taking away healthcare is a Dem policy? Don’t know what you’re talking about

When have they actually given healthcare? They have had plenty of opportunities. Like a few years back when the house, senate, and executive were all dem. They could have codified Roe v wade as law, we could have a single payer system. Plenty of dems supported citizens united which has led us here.

We had a supermajority in the Senate for 72 days. One of those was Joe Lieberman, who was so conservative that he was half Republican. None of what you wanted could get done without a supermajority The ACA got people required preventive tests, subsidies for coverage, got millions healthcare. Not a…

…public option, but you’d be wrong to say it didn’t get people healthcare. I went from being uninsured and going to Zoomcare to being covered for the specialist care I needed for a sudden health emergency And now that we’ve had ACA, we were closer to public option than we ever were (until trump)

again: wake up and look around did you vote for this? does any republican give a fuck about the rules? when Biden was elected they controlled the house and senate again pissed it away again i know your next step will be to blame Manchin or Sinema so let me stop you right there

Dems didn't control the Senate. There was 2 fake dems that always voted in lock step with republicans.

why are these people a part of the party? why do we have to "take what we can get"? why is it that there are endless democratic spoilers saying "we can't do that it's too radical" but when a literal nazi is in the white house he gets to rule by fiat and everyone falls in line?

what exactly did this stupid fucking party do to advance universal healthcare in the last 15 years? what did they do when they owned the house, senate, and white house in obama 1? when republicans control government, they get everything they want when democrats do, we get nothing we want

How are we going to go from zero healthcare to universal? LOL Gawd damn, ya dumb af.

As I just read on Eleanor’s page - voting for the lesser of two evils get you less and it’s still evil. No one is saying trump isn’t evil, horrible and an outright fascist, but there needs to be an actual alternative. Not just another rich puppet for the fossil fuel and war industries in a blue tie

Well whatever you thought of her (not going into that, you have your beliefs), that was the choice we had. Him or Her The smarter strategy was Her anyway because whatever you object to, one of them was going to win More people will suffer and die because it was Him

let go of this narrative that this is the voter's fault kamala had $2 billion dude the money printer the money tap infinite money glitch what did she do? she campaigned with liz cheney she tied herself to the most unpopular first term president's policies she ran on ??? vibes SHE lost dude

Doesn’t matter. She pulled a boner campaign move. The situation came down to the same facts and voters still have a responsibility and a choice Does her fuck up make trump a better choice?

It doesn't matter! People don't think that way, and no amount of whining or browbeating is gonna make them start! When you present them with two terrible candidates, they don't flock to the less terrible one, they go "fuck it, I don't care anymore" and tune out.

How many more idiot neoliberals need to get their lunches eaten by the most terrible candidates conceptually possible before you people are willing to figure that out? How many more times does an increasingly insular fascist right need to fucking clean house before you admit your way doesn't work?

It doesn’t matter when the choice should be that clear. Anybody who wants to die on the hill of their standards when it’s the choice we had has no business opining on politics There’s what you want and then there’s reality. Not everyone believes what you do. You think it will be easy if only…

endless apologies. i hope the party pays you well. since i know it doesn't pay you a dime, ask why you need to shill for them, apologize for them, cover for their mistakes is kamala's loss your bad? no? then stop defending it

Shill? stfu

Hey dipshit, I’m about to blow your fucking mind (at least whatever of one you happen to possess): election outcomes are the result of voters.

liberal, i know you'll never be disabused of this notion, but a bad candidate making such profoundly shitty campaign choices that people were so unmotivated to vote for her against a deeply unpopular ex-president is actually not my or anyone else's fault but her own

Guess you didn’t see the study that showed her policies were actually very popular with all voters. But she made campaign mistakes, so let’s show her by not voting for her — yeah, that’ll make a real statement

Tell me you have zero contact with reality without telling me.

How many people are eligible to vote in this country? You weigh all the policies and you choose the candidate whose policies you agree with more. That IS voting for someone. In my voting experience over decades if I waited for my perfect candidate I would never have voted. That is irresponsible.

And policies that benefit

Unfortunately that’s not always reality

As a long time democrat 1968 I agree we have to give the general public reason to come off the couch and go vote I told my grandson who will turn 18 by the next election he needs to vote and he agreed he did not realize need to register This is information the party needs to communicate and explain

These people, which I'm assuming includes you, need to stop expecting life to play out like a 1980s children's cartoon with every episode having a happy ending and grow the fuck up.

Here in Canada, people have a noted tendency to vote against politicians they don't like. An inspiring candidate would only get so far if the status quo isn't sufficiently unacceptable. And if there's no incumbent, people still vote against bad candidates. The US does appear to be different though.

Some people eligible to vote have never voted in their entire lives, and their parents never voted either.

youtu.be/xIraCchPDhk?...

the same percentage of eligible voters voted in 2024 for Trump as 2008 for Obama (65%) www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

Everyone needs to vote. No exceptions!!

I am sick of people complaining about their choices- if you don’t like them run for something yourself. Democracy is a participation sport. Better yet- a civic duty requires stepping up.

We are a country largely made up of people who suffer from the "I cannot be inconvenienced" gene. If we decide to engage, we can #throwthebumsout and #rebuildUSbetter

Exactly. Until people realize they have to do something themselves & not leave everything up to someone else & then complain about the results not much will change.

yep

Because the parties run garbage candidates

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Centrism: Run to the left and govern to the right. Harris got three percent support in the primaries and had to drop out. Running her was political suicide.

What intelligent person would get involved in this circus? Great minds do not get into politics

And then they end up in the concentration camp because they weren't interested in politics. Womp womp.

Meanwhile centrism keeps pushing things further right and preventing them from moving back to the left

Great minds also practice humility and do not view themselves as great. "A wise man knows that he knows nothing." - Plato. Here's another: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King.

Sounds like you should run for office!

Sounds like the Democratic part should ditch the failed centrism experiment while there is still a country

I'm not disagreeing with that point, but I will always choose the least-worst candidate while also pushing in the primary for a not-bad candidate.

This "We are the least worse" model has gotten us where we are today

No, not choosing the least worst option is how we got here. 2000, 2004, 2016, 2024. Remember those? Now imagine how any or all of those elections going the other direction because voters did their fucking job would have changed the landscape.

Listen to yourself "Least worst"

I’m using their words numbnuts. But go ahead and ignore reality in favor of verbiage. Lol

Yes YOU used them. "Better isn't possible. Now shut the fuck up and vote for our genocide" -Centrism

Apples compared to piles of 🐶💩

Vomit compared to shit

I like that!

That's why they practice voter suppression.

Cause or effect? Could it be that when Democrats run for election with certain policies (maybe right wing ones) lots of their usual supporters don't vote at all?

This was maybe so in the past, but you won’t ever have fair elections again.

That's why we have compulsory voting in our country. And because of Trump, our Labor Party won a resounding victory. The conservative side has so few reps that it threatens their party status.... Change your system, people, your so called 'freedoms' are oppressing you.

Let THIS sink in. The reason Dems had fewer voters in 2024 than in 2020 was because the Dems touted Biden's economic recovery as a huge win, but it was only a recovery if you had money. People who were struggling (and still are) to buy groceries were IGNORED. The Dems spent 2 billion dollars on the

2024 races and lost the trifecta. Was that because of bad messaging or because centrist (neoliberal) Dems represent corporations, billionaires, and lobbyists instead of voters? The logic your graphic discusses is sound, but the Dem Party is NOT sound. They vote to endorse fascism (Schumer and the

others who voted for the CR), they vote for the fascist's nominees (Booker voted for Kushner), and a whole lot of Dems take a lot of money from AIPAC so they vote to give Israel YOUR money so Israel can murder kids. If the Dems want to be a viable party they are going to have to put up candidates

who actually support voters. For example, Mamdani in NY. What a great campaign. Guess who hasn't endorsed the Democrat candidate for mayor? The Dems. No neoliberal or fascist is ever going to get my vote, and a whole lot of people feel the same. #EndFascists #EndOligarchs #EndNeoliberals

Truth!

Good luck with the fascists with that viewpoint!

Good luck pushing that rock in a circle until you drop.

Oh, I have options. So, by all means live your best life voting only for the purest examples of exactly what you believe. Or do something useful and run for office if you see no-one in your area who represents you.

I strongly encourage working class people running for office. There should be no races without a progressive candidate. Including Republican primaries. And not voting for people who give YOUR money to Israel to murder kids is not a purity test, it's common sense.

I agree with the first point. I'm also against warmongering, but I understand that, in most of the U.S. (where there isn't ranked-choice voting) you sometimes need to hold your nose and vote for the not-worst candidate.

No you don't. You can't reward a party for putting up a shitty candidate. That's how you slide into a situation where the neolibs are able to capture the Dems and move the party to the right and deny leadership roles to left leaning candidates. Ranked choice or not. Stand firm or they won't learn.

As I said, you do you, but don't complain when you get only a half ration because your goose-step at the mandatory "patriotic parade" isn't enthusiastic enough.

Thank you! That "purity test" line is a right-wing talking point. No one ever asked for purity. We asked for integrity. Don't tell me that integrity is too much to ask for in a candidate.

White people have been finding reasons not to vote for the Democratic party since the Civil Rights Act. This is just more of the same. Boring.

"It's not a purity test, it's an integrity test," is a line I'm going to start using now. Thank you

Apples compared to piles of 🐶💩

I opt for the 70% turnout and the elimination of the Republican Party. Let them deal with what they have done to their party, but for the near future and years to come, they need to be made irrelevant.

youtube.com/watch?v=ejHX... I will never allow myself to be sheepdoged back into the Democratic party. I voted for Claudia de la Cruz. I hope all 25 million of us who Left never come back. Who along with me is sticking to their guns on this. The last time I fell for the bait and switch was in 2020

In Australia we rarely have below 90% turnout. That’s what a real democracy looks like.

Try 90% USA, why aim so low. Aim really high and fail, 85%will do.

Voting was working when you lived in a democracy.

It is not obvious that those who don't vote would lean Democratic if they did. Do you have any evidence for this assertion?

Vote blue for genocidal maniacs vote red for genocidal pedos

GET THE VOTE OUT ON THE DAY.... GET REGISTRATIONS FROM NOW TO THAT DAY.... HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT ???

Can't remember who said it, but 90% of success is just showing up. In this case, I couldn't agree more! VOTE!

It's required in Australia.

I like Jed Bartlett’s version: “Decisions are made by those who show up.”

Elections are binary. “Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.” - Voltaire

There are at least three options, blue, red or don't vote. Unfortunately when the candidate(s) are poor many choose the third option.

The third option is just a worst version version of the first two. Someone is going to get elected either way.

Yeah but with the third option your hands are clean. People were basically asked to vote for 1)genocide 2)fascism and genocide 3) no vote Can’t blame people for taking option 3.

Their hands are anything but clean. Under FPTP, they chose the worse of options 1 and 2.

No, they chose option 3. You can make a lil trolley problem picture but the person by the switch isn’t to blame. The blame lies upon who started the trolley, who tied the people to the tracks, who refused to untie them. Also you know there’s no single “correct” answer to the trolley problem, right?

Both parties seem to be casually indifferent to those exercising the third option, until election day.

Speaking for myself: if you “exercise the third option,” you forfeit your right to complain when elected officials take action you disagree with. You’ve chosen to remove yourself from the conversation.

Fair enough, having said that, do you think it makes sense for the people in the Democratic Party he led us to defeat in 2024 should still be leading the party?

That’s the purpose of primary elections

Like the one we didn’t have in 2024?

George Carlin disagrees youtu.be/xIraCchPDhk?...

While I am a casual fan of him he's dead and hasn't witnessed this fucking bullshit. So that being said whatever choice he made is completely irrelevant to these times we are currently living through.

His point on this still makes complete sense to me.

The third option is a complaint. And then they move on. The parties are like, "meh, maybe next time we'll try a slightly bigger bone" . . . than the minuscule ones they toss out every couple years.

That’s not a real option, that’s accepting fascism. I don’t care whether you feel “inspired,” care about vulnerable people and vote against the fascists.

It's incumbent on the party's to "nominate" candidates that can win elections. Virtue signaling is a good recipe for losing elections

Are you suggesting nominating Kamala Harris was virtue signaling…? And there would have been no excuse for not voting for even a literal Weekend at Bernie’s Joe Biden over Donald Trump. Sure, Dems do better, but no, vote against fascism.

"Fascism"! 🤣

Had VP Harris gone through the primaries there is zero chance she would have been nominated The "nomination" of VP Harris was 100% virtue signaling Any candidate that is unable to beat the current POTUS is a terrible candidate After the debate the election was over President Biden lost that night

The third is a half vote for the worst candidate

I would say not wanting a candidate to commit genocide is not expecting perfection. It's having a pretty standard baseline that neither candidate chose to meet.

So you chose not to vote in 2024?

I live in a safe blue state that was always going to go for Kamala. So I used the privilege, afforded to me from this fucked up electoral system we have, to vote my conscience and vote third party.

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I loved this episode!!!

In spite of somebody else poking fun at me for quoting him, President Bartlett is the good kind of fantasy- the aspirational one for the kinds of ideals we should expect out of our politicians. And Sorkin gave him some banger lines.

You ain't wrong! I've been bingeing West Wing for the last few months, to try and maintain some semblance of logical presidential behaviors in my mind...

Are you honestly quoting a fake, a president from a shitty liberal fantasy TV show?

Shitty? Liberal? You seem to know quite a bit about the program for someone "hating" it so much... 🤭

I listened to an entire podcast, talking about how horrible that shows politics is. The West Wing Thing. You should check it out.

Nah, I'm pretty good at doing my own critical thinking and evaluating the cost-benefit of what I watch on the TV box. I choose West Wing and Law&Order (1990-2010) and refuse Real World, Honey Booboo and Immigration Spouses.

I hate those reality shows too while also hating the shitty liberal fantasy show and the entertaining but bad for society copaganda. All of those tv options you chose are varying degrees of not good.

We have to remember Dems are lazy people and don’t vote!!!!

Until the 💩 shows up on their front door stoop and then they’re all whining, crying, screaming and bitching about how horrible 💩 is happening to them or their family 🙄 but until then, they could care less! And all they had to do was take one measly day and a couple of hours out of 365 days to vote 🤬

If all of us don't vote we all lose!

Here's how you get voter turnout: Tax. Wealth. First. Everything else will follow. Spread the word.

You cannot sit this out! We all must vote and pray we can keep it a fair election! Though you know if we win, it will take a fight to clean out the swamp! They won’t go easily! lol!

Voters in all states if you want freedom an not tyranny Then register to vote and vote for people who believe in our republic and democratically elected representatives! You can’t ignore voting or politics because these two things can make your lives better or worse depending on who you elect!

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Vote blue change the world

Can't I just ignore elections, and then constantly complain about their outcome?!

✊ Don't be passive...

Gotta have a dem nominee worth voting for tho…

Always!!! I will be 70 years old in a couple months and I have never in my life voted for a Republican! Never have, never fucking will!

This Is A Fact. 🤷

Just freakin’ vote, dudes!

That person blocked me Happy about it.

This has always been true. It’s why they’re trying to rig it now.

Hence Republican gerrymandering and other voter suppression tactics.

Get Mad, Stay Mad, Vote Mad, #America! LESS THAN ONE THIRD of 2024 Voters Supported #SEXOFFENDER #CONVICT #Trump and #MAGAGOP! THE TWO THIRDS, "Have ALL The Cards!" PLUS - @22 Million Newly Eligible Voters, and - ??? "Betrayed" Trump/MAGAGOP Voters! "JUST VOTE EARLY!" #VOTE U.S. BACK! 🇺🇸 🗽 🦅

And what percentage did you get after abandoning your base?

Technically our free and fair elections without the window with Nixon legalizing lobbying. Our democracy died a long time ago & we've been blind to it.

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Republicans win by restricting voter access.

The bigots care more than we do. Most white men & women dont care about anything other than his promise to harm people they hate i.e., non white, Christian, heterosexual, binary, Republican. Not a shit about women's health, inflation, none of it. Most Hispanics voted for their own persecution too

Talarico made the point that “if republican policies are popular, why do they need to to redraw these maps? Why can’t they just run on their policies. Conversely, if dems had policies that the voters liked, it wouldn’t matter what the maps looked like. Mamdani won because of his policies.

People don’t vote on policies (Mamdani excepted). In blind studies, Dem policies are overwhelmingly supported

Look at the polling, the dem party is more disliked than Trump BECAUSE of their policies. I want a blue tsunami in 26 but if dems go with their current policies no one will show up to vote.

Do people like Trump policies better?

Look at the polling, the dem party is more disliked than Trump BECAUSE of their policies. I want a blue tsunami in 26 but if dems go with their current policies no one will show up to vote.

Trumps polling numbers are awful.

Nope, they are more disliked because of the party name Just like people think Rs are better on the economy when data shows Dem administrations have better economic records for the last century Just like people liked the ACA, but they hated Obamacare

The dems showed up to vote for Mamdani because of his policies, if the dem party reject him because he won’t bend the knee to the rich and corporate donors and go with the same policies that contributed to the current inequality, then the electorate that would have voted dem will stay home.

People don’t vote policies — many trump voters are surprised now because they didn’t think he would do the things he told them he would do. Again, Mamdani and probably other local elections are exceptions www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/rep...

Exactly! Just a bunch of tits

Get off your dead asses and vote. If you didn't bother to vote in the last elections, you have no right to bitch and moan. Get out and protest and more importantly vote in the next election. Don't depend on others to do your job for you

Love this! Go vote!

I don’t understand how people are simultaneously saying that the elections were rigged, AND it would’ve turned out differently if more people had voted. They DID vote. Their votes were ignored, suppressed, changed, and thrown out.

Does that still apply with more people registering as Republican now?

Don’t worry, next election the “radical progressives” will deliver us—again— into the hands of bigots & fake-christians, like they always do Republicans are annihilating rights of lgbtq+, women & immigrants, but despite this, Democrats are still the bad guys because they haven’t solved Gaza, right?

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I am encouraging the Democratic party to let voter turnout decide the primary order. 1st primary should be held by the State with the highest Democratic turnout in the preceding elections, the 2nd in the 2nd.... And then by region, also in turnout order.

It has happened every 100 years. Tariffs the gas that lights that fire. Don’t teach history and this all seems new. The last time bye bye to Republicans for 50 years. That happened 100 years ago.Hoping it is 75 years this time.

what now boss?

You guys have a ballot box stuffing problem (technically unstuffing ) that needs to be looked at

Are you saying this about Democrats?

No…he is Canadian and is saying that the US has a problem. And we do….it’s called MAGA and the republican party.

You're both right. Dems have a problem. Maga is the problem

I don’t just blame voter suppression or gerrymandering…I also blame all the assholes who sat out the last election over the former administration and their handling of the Israeli conflict. How do you like it now assholes? You should have voted dicks!

Exactly!

With hundreds of bomb scares, republicans win elections. DeSantis should have gone to jail in 2023 for the coup he ran on the House in 2022 in Florida. The democrats should be horsewhipped for seating Florida representatives in 2023.

Nice numbers. Now why should I?

Resilience is working, dig in and RAGE against the REGIME! youtu.be/w4PbD8ObTLg

I truly hope that can happen with all the gerrymandering all those red states are doing cause I don't think we have enough blue states that can do it

We need to be out in red states getting them to vote. I’m talking to you, Texas!

Great message and marching orders. Get out the vote!!

Equally important to remember… Republicans vote. They vote every election. It doesn’t matter if it’s POTUS, Congress, State, County, City, or dog catcher. They vote. And they vote how the party orders them to; like little Nazi pedophile lemmings marching off a cliff. So, vote! Every election!

They sat out in 2012 in large numbers and were rewarded by getting the candidate they wanted and victory

the same percentage of eligible voters voted in 2024 for Trump as 2008 for Obama (65%) www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

This is not a joke.

Republican's cheat. I am one of the most honest people you could meet but I feel like our side to start cheating too.

We need to do exactly what Gavin Newsome is doing fighting fire with fire. If it all burns at this point the sane people will not be able to tell the difference from now and when it burns because we are already there. People most people just are not paying attention

And yes I know I missed the punctuation on this, don’t care

on Nov 3rd 2026, let's end the GOP vote.org

This is why we need to go back to ATLEAST New Deal ideals

Ich denke, hier ist der Haken: Wenn die Wähler nicht aktiv sind, ist das wie ein Spiel ohne Regeln. Und wenn die Regeln nicht bekannt sind, kann es nicht fair sein. 🤔

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How many votes got disappeared? Because the tallies don't ad up.

If you vote blue, no matter how imperfect, you will have a chance to vote again in 2 and 4 years to choose again. That is how you move forward.

With a 2 party system one party always has control. Except this time, one party has it all and is changing the system. Remember: "Dictator on day one" - "You'll never have to vote again". He is not going anywhere without a fight. Stop the movement not the man. Trump is just their puppet.

Great - put up a candidate that inspires people again

That part too!!!

Why don’t you run?

You're never going to have a better reason to vote than you did in 2024. If you were uninspired, you're uninspiring.

We owe more to the marginalised than to allow uninspiring candidates to run with full endoresement

Congratulations! You get Trump.

“You” so you’re not in this with us?

I did my part.

And what is that?

I voted. What did you think we were talking about?

It takes more than voting. I voted too but there’s more to do.

Neat.

They did too, have some morals

This is a constant message from the democrats. Don't vote for facisim / maga, etc., Tell me what the democrats are for. What's the platform? How will they do better with the economy? Otherwise it's defensive, uninspiring and whining. Trump is on offense most of the time. And, I did vote.

On issues like tax cuts for the top %, unions, access to Medicare and Medicaid, climate change, the right to abortion, social security, drug prices, Medicaid expansion and minimum wage Americans are overwhelmingly on the side of Democrats; then add in the fascism thing and I find that inspiring.

Yes, I can get behind all of that. Dems lost the election on the economy. This is supported by polling done around the election date. Every one of the maga issues they tied to the economy. Open border is stealing jobs. Regulation is hurting growth. And so on...

Do the bare minimum and go vote for the best candidate. Or don't, and suffer through fascism.

Seriously. So tired of the "they're both terrible" argument. You don't get to complain for a millisecond after an election if you didn't bother to go out and vote.

I agree but you're preaching to the choir. How do you engage the disenfranchised and communicate with the politically illiterate? The Dems have to meet these people half way and actually field candidates that engage with people outside of their bubble and aren't just in it for a paycheck

THIS! This is what the Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd never seems to grasp. It's not about the choices of those who are engaging in this discussion. It's about the millions of disaffected citizens, over whom we have no influence. The Dems have to do better to reach those people.

The population is crying out for change and the dems are here running on keeping things the same. No wonder Trump won so easily

That's great, now if you would ask yourself why this doesn't seem to actually convince people to go out and vote we might actually get somewhere.

Exactly the people that sat on their ass complaining the democrats didn’t have a good enough candidate are you happy now?! Let’s see I don’t want a not so inspiring (to that person not me) who I disagree with some things on or a full tilt racist rapist felon who hates YOU! Got it hard decision 😼

No, I'm not happy now. And I blame Kamala Harris for running a horrible campaign and supporting genocide. Disagreeing with someone on whether or not america should be enabling a genocide is a pretty big thing.

Sad but the US taxpayer funds the Israeli Genocide. An American can move to Israel & get lots of free stuff. That's why we have no free health care & no free education and pathethic infrastructure.We have a 37 trillion dollar deficit yet we fund a genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCn...

So we don’t have genocide now? So we still have genocide and a racist dictator and higher costs and military in the streets and the take over of our museums and the deleting of African American history stop me if Harris would have done these things too but ya I guess she ran a horrible campaign 🤷🏽‍♀️

She did because she lost to a person who said he was going to do all those things.

Omg exactly you have proven my point! If people knew or should have known he would do these things why didn’t they not choose her? How are we in a better place? Lets see not vote for a person that wouldn’t put us in the hell hole we are in now or sit on my ass and let it happen. Got it 🤦🏽‍♀️

Shaming folks to victory. You must really want to win.

If they offered the bare minimum.

Seriously agree with your comment.

I will vote blue no matter what but the best candidate is a progressive.

But if you say that now, the democrats have no incentive of giving you a progressive candidate, and instead will give you a candidate that supports genocide.

Not always.

So far, in my nearly 40 years of voting that's all they offer. The process needs a massive overhaul and Citizens Untied must be overturned. Eggs need to be broken. Dems are corrupt too. Maybe not all but all take $ from some of the same people & orgs. We need change!

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I absolutely agree!!

Every time we get one, the Dems try to kick them down.

You're lazy 🤷 don't post about hating Trump if you didn't fight with your vote.

So vote all ye citizens!

Whats the point of voting blue in the midterms while the POS who calls himself Prez is still in control? He can veto every single Bill the Dems want to pass. But the Dems can also kill every single bill the GOP want to pass as well. So NO bills get passed for 2 years?

Of Trump gets his way we will never have another election Trump and Putin are carving up the world and what they want . Putin gets everything west of China all through Europe Trump gets north and south America central America Mexico Canada Iceland and Greenland !

And to assure a democratic win, we need to join with all Democratic states and redistrict so there are few Republican seats left to gain. They would do it to us, so we need to fight back and do it to them first. They won't be nice so why should we?

It is a competition of ideas, and no, the democrats have not won. Until the democrats provide a compelling reason to vote for them instead of against the other party, they will continue to struggle with voter turnout.

We know what needs to be done. We just need to do it.

Yes but it's not "vote harder for von Hindenburg". What needs to be done is incredibly obvious. Your forefathers did it. Your whole national mythology is based on it. France did it over BREAD. The whole world knows what needs to be done, and is waiting for Americans to have the courage to do it.

Americans have been sleepwalking now for 45 years through unfathomable and snowballing corruption. It began with Ronald Reagan's administration. There are those, and I am with them, mounting a deep campaign against bottomless, deadly, and incomprehensible corruption. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqO...

Race to the Bottom by Reagan, Thatcher, and Mulroney The story of Western decline.

VOTE!!!!

And yet Democrats constantly undercut themselves, and push forward a string of terrible candidates. And when legitimate grassroots support rallies around one, they attack that candidate for being "too liberal."

HEH. CANADA 🇨🇦 *HUMOUR* #VoteBLUEjustnotinCANADAinCANADAVOTERED #LIBERAL

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But also corpratist Ds who sell out to the rich have done more to discourage voters than Rs ever have. If every election is 'the most important in our lifetime' but once in power we keep subsidizing the rich then people give up. You want the public to do better we also need better Ds to vote for!

Compulsory voting ensures nearly everyone votes, in Australia we have a saying 'if you don't vote you get the government you deserve '

The Republican Party got decimated in 2016, no longer exists. There’s the maga-cult and the anti-trump party now!

OKay I mean yeah. What if they rig the election again? WHAT IF they just cancel the election and put armed, masked goons everywhere? WHAT IF they just build more death camps?

Rumblings of no more elections so who the hell knows

Well you or I might not 'know' for sure, but someone knows. Project 2025 dudes know. The heritage foundation knows.

People so egoistic they can't be bothered to vote for what they suppose the better party or candidate, and would vote for if they voted, have not really been won over by Democratic ideas, because Democrats suppose voting important, the stakes high. Non-voters have one foot in conservative values.

If only the dems could run someone who doesn’t suck Israel’s dick

Abandoning all your issues over a foreign nation. Ideologically weak and obsessive over easily influeced ideas.

I voted for her, but also you can suck a dick

Ok. Enjoy trump.

Lol that makes no sense

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Amen to that. 70% is the target.

I borrowed this! They wouldn't be trying to block us if there wasn't a reason!

Agree

The weakness of Dem leadership has really hurt the turnout. That needs to be turned around asap. Problem is I don't see a unified movement from the leaders just a bunch of pockets of resistance like Newsom and Texas Dems.

So Texas redistribution to get 5 seats puts every seat in the state in play for the non republicans at with increased turn out. The dems should be throwing what they can at turnout.

Register. Check your status regularly to make sure they haven’t removed your eligibility. Get out and vote! The midterms are our last shot to stop this dictatorship without massive bloodshed and lives lost. Get out and vote for democracy or live under stupidity and greed.

And the key to winning elections is nominating candidates who can win, virtue signaling does not win elections.

The problem, in a nutshell

We need 70%

And if the Democrats win, Republicans will scream the election was rigged.

A Republican won last year with 64% turnout.

Maga voted in numbers too big to ignore.

Rather than just say "Vote blue", shouldn't the message be "Vote", since its about turnout.

Yes, that is why Republicans always try to suppress the vote -- because if all the people vote, they lose--and they know it!!!

ask everyone you know to ask everyone they know if they are registered to vote. #gopmasterraceplan #epsteinlist #djt #fatdonny #espn #trumpslump #jdisacouchfucker

Sadly, many Dems cannot vote (or their votes don't get counted) due to questionable/illegal tactics... and @gregpalast.bsky.social delivers specifics

vote to change that, it starts at city and school board elections, on and on, but you have to start

Only way we can get rid of it is to get rid of *all* GOPers...had hoped more of them would have gotten terminal Covid at one of P47's superspreader events...☹️

I vote for telling us who dropped the cocaine in the White House and why daddy dementia pardoned coke boy n couldn't keep his word regarding said pardon. His doc took the 5th uh, another coward.

I wish that were true. We all need to show up. But we need to convince people to change their minds too.

The working class needs someone to vote for. Someone deserving of votes. The democratic party has failed to provide such a candidate and I predict they will continue to fail. We want representation for the worker, not the wealthy donors. Providing for the needs of the people inspires voters.

So wrong stats. It’s turnout.

My observation looking at the numbers in CA….approximately 1.5 million people did not vote in 24 vs 20. Trump only got 80k more votes than 2020. If CA had voted like it was 2020 at least he couldn’t brag about winning the popular vote!

LOL they are both puppets for Israel and Wall Street anyways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZb...

Obama got that landslide from a campaign built on progressive rhetoric. We need to make sure that if we want to win we need to throw incrementalism and centrist fence sitting out the window. The bare minimum is abolishing ice and ending the genocide in Gaza .

Obama didn't get a landslide. White voters overwhelmingly chose the Republican candidate twice. That white people would "vote for Obama a 3rd time" is a myth. Most white people didn't even vote for Obama once.

Well as far as these elections go winning both the electoral vote and popular vote is a land slide in my eyes as the op is noting the actual conversation is based in the correlation from voter turnout to candidate wins. Which is statistically proven. Hwvr it omits the context of Obama's campaign

in 2008 43% of eligible white voters voted for Obama, while 55% voted for McCain

i love seeing your party take off confidently in the wrong direction

Hamas can end the devastating war they started anytime. They don’t want to. Hamas wants to survive in their tunnels and don’t give a fig about heir own citizens.

Hamas is insignificant in the scope and brutalism that has been presented with this genocide the only people who are willing to defend this are white supremacist or tools of such either way it's not looking good for you

Saying Hamas is insignificant is protecting them. Possibly supporting them. A group that has been launching missiles on Israelis cities for years, committed a genocide, triggered a war, wants to commit more genocide and sacrifices its own citizens is not insignificant. Stop covering for them.

This is just deflection from the war crimes that Israel is committing nothing Hamas has done has matched the brutality and scope of the Israeli ethno state. Your a white supremacist who wants to argue in bad faith in favor for genocide. Though I might giving you undue credit you tool

This isn't about hamas even Israel doesn't care about the hostages who many have died from their genocidal madness themselves. This isn't about hamas. This is about a genocidal apartheid state and boot lickers like you who enable them to do as they please.

It’s not about Hamas? It’s entirely about Hamas who started the war by committing a genocide on Jews. Hamas is still committed to exterminating Jews and rejects the existence of Israel. Don’t protect them. Hamas is terrible for Gazans.

Genocide is the tool of the fascist state to brutalise the demographics that get in the way. Ie what the apartheid regime is currently doing to steal the land and slay it's people . Your comparison is essentially apples to oranges and holds no water you racist freak

So you think the indiscriminate carpet bombing of civilians, the attacks on the UN and Red Cross and other aid personel, and the policy of killing journalists - all of which is being enacted by the IDF - are Hamas's fault for not surrendering sooner?

Absolutely. Hamas triggered a war that they knew would bring devastation to Gaza. They hide under civilians and mingle with them knowing they put Gazans in danger. But a dead Gazan is an al Aqsa martyr who is glorious. Hamas could end this anytime. But they will hang in until every last Gazan

So your logic is that it's better 100 innocents die, rather than risk one one of the guilty get away? No matter how you frame it, it's Israel that's pulling the trigger here.

My logic is: don’t start a devastating war knowing that your own citizens are going to suffer horribly. Don’t grab hostages and hide them in apartments unless you want civilians to die. Don’t hide under civilians in tunnels - unless you were planning for them to die.

By your logic, Israel should have just saved some time and dropped a nuke onto Gaza

piss off zio

Yup, stuff like this is why the Dems got routed by a Nazi

Exactly. All the Hamas sympathizers on college campuses made the Dems look like Hamas supporters. Big mistake. Americans don’t like Hamas. Most.

And Americans don’t like Israel either. What’s your point?

Untrue. Americans just voted in the most staunchly Zionist govt in decades.

Sounds like Trump is the leader you want

I’m not crazy about him. But he is generally supportive of Israel and dislikes Hamas. That’s better than a lot of west European countries who have embraced Hamas.

You’re a Zionist, go put on your red MAGA hat.

*Netanyahu* can end the devastating war Zionist settler-colonialism caused anytime. He doesn’t want to. Israel wants to kill as many Palestinians as they can and take the land, they don’t give a fig about their own citizens who are still held hostage.

Hamas can abandon their vow to exterminate Jews anytime. They won’t. Destroying Israel is more important to them than protecting their own citizens whom they view as nothing but al Aqsa martyrs. Hamas just brings more suffering to Gazans. Israel opens the world of freedom, trade and development.

See, I could have seen this being a good-faith argument until that last sentence. If you think a state that has exterminated that many innocent civilians “opens the world of freedom, trade and development,” I don’t know what to tell you besides that you’ve absolutely *guzzled* the kool-aid here.

Hamas started this shit? Oh my it started way before Oct 7 don’t fucking kid yourself

Agree !! It started in 47 when Palestinians rejected the partition plan and tried to destroy Israel. They failed. Palestinians keep failing and they keep suffering as a result. Self inflicted. They need to give up their dream of killing Jews and build something of their own other than tunnels.

So who is the aggressor?

In what context? What are you taking about?

What are you talking about? You act as if Israel is the victim…….

an account with a 4 digits random name, which post only these type of sentences, in different languages : Israel propaganda account. don't engage, just block and pass the word.

? Who massacred Jews Oct 7? Who vows to exterminate Jews? Who has spent years sending missiles on Israel trying to kill civilians?

Who’s been massacring Palestinians for generations? Gaza war alone 63,000 vs 2,000. What’s that about? Victims my ass.

And why do they do that?

Don’t care, 125,000 women and children are dead.

Huh ?

hAmAs cAn eNd tHe wAr aNyTiMe tHeY wAnT jUsT liNe uP aGaInSt tHe wAlL

They are Israel’s tunnels Sparky. And they rarely slaughter their own children

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I’m fairly certain their utter and complete inaction combined with voting with trump repeatedly since 1/20/25 has sealed the Dems fate. Witness Booker’s faux outrage for the cameras while voting to approve 6 of trump’s nominees, including the felon Kushner. I’ve been a blue voter for 30 years…

…these last few months have shown me exactly who they are. I will only vote for blue candidates now that aren’t enabling fascism. Newsom, for example, gave air time to Kirk and Jones. Nothing he’s doing now changes that. I would vote for Pritzger, Beshear or Buttigieg in a nanosecond.

So true! Too many people stayed home

Ppl pls. VOTE!!!

This is what you should ALSO let sink in. Email your election commissioners after the election to CONFIRM your vote was tallied. In NYS 2nd Dept. GOP regularly sue to throw out your vote and you won’t know it unless a someone calls you. @dutchesscounty.bsky.social

I love this!!!!!!!

"In relative terms, voter turnout nationally in 2024 was 63.9 percent. That is below the 66.6 percent voter turnout recorded in 2020, which was the highest voter turnout rate in a U.S. presidential election since 1900." www.cfr.org/article/2024...

Love this!

Last election had 65% so 🤷

Really?? This is all the fault of democrats who didn’t vote?

If people actually voted issues instead of feelings or peer pressure, Dems would always win in a runaway Last election, Dem policies had 60-85% approval when respondents in a poll didn’t know whose policies they were

This is why conservatives colonized the right wing of the Democrats so even when Democrats win we still somehow lose and can’t pass anything meaningful.

I could replace "right" with "left" and "Democrats" with "Republicans" and that would be exactly what I hear in Texas

Maybe but that just tells me the Republican voters in Texas are delusional and unhappy that the state isn’t galloping towards fascism & christian nationalism even faster than it already is.

We could also eliminate the electoral college

And just like here in the UK What makes that swing is those who don’t always vote The ones who always vote red or blue, always have always will Those votes don’t change Got to work on the floating voting

I’m for the last one!

Okay, now, SHOW UP TO PRIMARIES. Shitheads like Schumer, Jeffries, and Pelosi keep winning their seats because people in their districts don't show up to primaries, and don't vote for representatives that actually support the people. "Vote Blue no matter who" is just Blue MAGA.

We *DESERVE* better representatives and senators than, "well, at least they're not Republican...". We only get that when people show up to primaries and vote for stand-up guys like Mamdani. Otherwise we get asshats like Cuomo.

VOTE BLUE

The Republican Party is already gone. It sold it's cold heart and soul to the Trump Cult and worship their orange pedophile god.

excellent

Yaasss! For instance, Texas has 6.5 million registered Republikkkans and 8 million registered Democrats. Let that sink in for a minute… Then walk precincts; knock on doors; give folks a lift to candidate’s night; write and mail postcards; give voters a ride to the polls. This engagement works!

A bit misleading - Texans don't register by party. Sign the petition urging TX House Dems to HOLD THE LINE – tinyurl.com/TXRepsHOLD

Let that have some verifiable stats it back it up.

I agree with your stats -- But that assumes that we will have elections and they will be fair and not interfered with by the muskrats and Russians as the last one was.

If we weren't going to have elections then the GOP wouldn't be desperately trying to redistrict before midterms. If they thought that Russian troll farms and Skynet was enough to cheat then they wouldn't be redistricting.

It's a show so they have an argument against accusations of fraud.

I really wonder what’s being done to ensure there’s no tweaking the numbers for the midterms…otherwise, what’s the point of having elections? I don’t hear anyone talking about this. Where are the non-koolaid drinking tech oligarchs with a fool-proof voting system? A girl can dream….

We have to stop electing old people. My students have a lot of ideas and a whole lot of energy to do things, but our Congress is made of up their grandparents and great grandparents who have absolutely no idea how to communicate with them or what they want. It’s ridiculous.

I hear you but… How can we elect young people when the elections are bought and rigged?

Revolution is the only way for change, it seems. We could learn a fair amount from young people on that, too. It’s not all that wise to look to people who can only focus on how things have been done for answers when what we need is a whole new system.

Let’s not lose our focus! Never give up and give away your vote! Too many fought, bled and died to secure your vote! Their sacrifice should not be in vain, even in the face of insurmountable obstacles, we all need to show up at the poles with a spine of steel and the grit of a true patriot!

Totally correct. We have to spend the next 17 months getting people to understand this.

The Refucklican Party is no more as they have become fascist in ideology and action so that party has to be decimated in midterms….decimated.

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The Democrat party has been in existence for over 100 years. Every time they have gotten in, they have done Nothing to reverse Republican decisions. Clearly, the Democrats are not the answer. We can't "push them left" no matter how much we vote, our vote, in bourgeois 'democracy', means nothing.

Dems won this past election, in a huge fashion, and still here we are.

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Except that we don't say jack shit when they rig the election. Harris actually got over 70% of the popular vote, where are we?

Also explains Republican voter suppression tactics.

People will always find a reason not to vote. They will make whatever excuse they can to not only not vote but convince others their vote means nothing. If this last election didn't get them to vote nothing will.

If there’s no democratic primary the Democrats lose. Let that sink in!

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Which Dems, though? The party apparatchiks or the actual voter Dems?

Shame the Democrats can't fucking figure that out. All they do is spend entire elections trying to court the mythical Republican that will for some reason vote blue. Maybe if they spent time messaging to their base to excite them they'd get their base to turn out to vote for them.

THIS 👆👆👆 Voters do not change parties Voters vote the platform, or against the other platform, and take whatever goes along with that

Wonder what the percentages would be now…as of today.

More disgruntled ex-MAGA, but little from the folks that voted Biden 2020 but not Harris 2024. Current Dems appeal more to the near-right than to the mainstream. They want the people who voted for Reagan, not the folks who voted for FDR.

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Unless someone hacks the election and a urine soaked cockroach wins every swing state by just enough.

It's always the voters' fault..Never the broken, corrupt system that teaches voters that they don't matter. (I always vote but I feel like a mark when I do.)

65% turned out in 2024. Maybe the Democratic Party bares some responsibility, at some point.

Yeah, in a real election where all the votes are counted. What’s that? You think that’s what it will be? Wow. Such a silly man.

Also, Calling All Cops, National Guard deployed against the American People, Military Active Duty across the Nation. This is what We The People Want You To Do The Right Thing Stand With Us at Every March Take a Knee for We The People Tell Trump You Won't Be His Tin Soldiers youtu.be/ey8-e7UIK2E

That fat, orange shit-stain is going to rig and cheat every election he can't stop entirely. It doesn't matter if 90% of the country votes blue, he's going to win anyway. Voting won't save us when he's changing the system to guarantee his victory.

Come on, Democratic Party members! It’s time you showed up with new & better policies, a new resilient & inspiring leader & really gave despicable Trump & the sycophantic Republican Party a pasting! 💪🏻

I switched to the democrat party when I actually started to read the policies from both sides. It turns out I really wasn’t a republican

I find it utterly shocking & reprehensible that Trump, with Congressional support, has just blown a hole in those social services, plus the U.S. Veterans Administration social supports, among other cuts. The Republicans are the party of only one strata of society: the rich.🙁 2/2

I agree but we have to remember if congress was doing their job, and I mean republicans, it wouldn’t have happened. We need to do our best to make sure they do not win their upcoming elections. If we still have them by then.

Agree completely. I really hope that your upcoming mid-terms create better Congressional conditions next year with more Democratic members. Americans need the Dems to fight for their social services to be re-instated. Fingers crossed! ❤️🤞🏻

Thank you

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From what I’ve learned, the Republican Party has always framed itself as the party of fiscally responsibility yet it’s the Democratic Party that has made more positive, life changing improvements for U.S. citizens: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid etc. dating back to 1938. 1/2

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If you actually read their policies they are not that bad it’s their messaging that they lack on. I explained one of the policies to a guy at work but didn’t tell him who’s it was and he liked it until I told him it was a democrat policy, then he hated it for some reason

It’s good to know that the Democratic Party’s policies are reasonable & sound. I hope that the members are able to find a leader who can really impress & appeal to American voters. Americans need the Dems now like never before. 👍🏻

Not saying they are perfect but they do have the interest of helping at least. But they just do not know how. We need more like jasmine Crockett and the younger ones that actually fight back and speak out

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