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"I'm really starting to regret my vote"
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Think of it this way.
You're a wage worker who's just sat through eight years of the Federal Government, under both parties, doing absolutely nothing to mitigate the struggle of your daily existence. Are you going to choose to miss a badly-needed day's pay to vote?
No. You've already observed that there's no point.
There are countless examples of Democrats trying to make lives better, and Republicans denying bills and voting against it.
They are not the same at all, and idiots who vote R or don't vote are the reason Rs are allowed to continue to run the US into the ground.
People can't eat excuses. Maybe next time put some Democracy back into the Democratic Party instead of crowning a candidate who let it all happen. Those of us who don't hang out in an echo chamber could see this coming from a mile a way, hell, Harris couldn't even win a primary against Tulsi Gabbard.
Well that fifty bucks cost us any forward progress or even retaining past progress so great job. Non-voters fucked us all by not giving a shit. People died to give everyone the right to vote, throwing it away for "a day's pay" is insanity especially because the law states you get to vote - with pay. Anyone who doesn't see the radical difference in the parties is trying very, very hard not to
And to be clear, we have defeated ourselves. Name the cause you want to highlight, but not voting has stopped all progress and rolled back even more.
No, they didn't. Partisan voters fucked us all by not caring about politicians' records. For 40 years straight.
People understand this, they are just saying that there was a choice between having a vote for the same, or voting for trump. And between those two chosing not for the same means voting for trump, even by not voting.
If they end up worse afterwards, don't complain. That one day of much needed work hopefully pays for the years that come afterwards.
Until the Democratic Party and their voters develop empathy for workers, they're going to continue to lose elections.
Your voting is messed up and needs to change. I'm not going to say Australia is perfect, but we have compulsory voting and they do their best to make it as easy as possible for every single person to vote. The fact people would have to even CONSIDER missing work to vote is an absolute joke.
You're right. Voting is made arbitrarily difficult here in the States because we're ruled by the wealthy, simple as that.
If only there WAS SOME WAY TO CHANGE THAT.
Goddamn.
The fuck? Which party has ever done anything for workers?
ANY legislation that supported workers came from the Democrats. Don't give a shit and consign us to demented fascism through your careless inaction but saying garbage like that is BULLSHIT. Learn something.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7489
Also some states/employers already do this.
Yup, your rights in many parts of the country vary significantly depending on your zip code, and unless you're a billionaire or okay with achieving notoriety by following in the footsteps of a particular Italian gentleman, there's nothing you can do to change it. (At least outside of your local community.)