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BOOoOoTh SiIiiiiIIiiiiiiDESssssssssSsS!!
Biden is old, you see, and there was also a woman who wasn't exactly adamant about Israel, so you have to starve now. But don't worry, if you starve enough, something will surely happen. And if not, at least there will be a civil war, isn't that great? You get to die in a random shootout, isn't that wonderful? So glad we didn't vote so this lady didn't win.
True, but as for the last part -
We actually did. The even more depressing reality is the last three presidential elections had the highest turnout of registered voters and young voters in American history.
What's fucked up is that exit polling showed that most people were entirely tuned-out and saw no difference between the candidates because most people don't watch the news or politics, most people are uninformed on basic science and reason, most people have curated social media feeds that push attention-span erosion and right-wing propaganda, and a good QUARTER of the adult population of America is functionally illiterate. Meaning studies have shown that 22% or more of adults in the US cannot read more than a couple words strung together or have to piece together sentences contextually. They can work, they can answer text messages, but are incapable of assembling paragraphs and forming complex abstractions.
We're fucked on a level that is hard to convey.
This is one of the problems with how we've pushed the messages like "rock the vote", that you should vote, no matter what, or you're being a bad citizen.
If you can't be bothered to actually try to be informed, then you shouldn't feel pressure to vote. Sure, you should be allowed to vote no matter what, but no one should be pressuring you to vote even with lack of interest.
We should be emphasizing you should get to know the candidates up and down the ballot, not just getting your mark on a ballot.
*we should have been
this was probably the last election in a long time
The erosion of our education system and attention spans is a feature of the system, not a bug. They wanted this all along, and have been working on it for decades. There's a reason the right has hated PBS since it came out, and it's not just because Bert and Ernie are a same-sex couple.
Also there's statistical evidence that the vote was manipulated...
https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nus5JA3Vh4
deep breaths
Oh I'm sorry.... What I meant was:
deep breathes