All these people* can go screw themselves

[conuly]

because they're determined to screw the rest of us over even more.

* Except those who are genuinely facing structural difficulties in voting.

Comments

[rebeccmeister]

Or OTOH, hey, this is chock-full of information on what it takes to get people to get out and vote: more up-to-date systems to disseminate information about candidates and issues; making it clear that you can cast a ballot without voting for any of the listed candidates; more up-to-date systems to help with registration and absentee ballots; political parties with substantive and meaningful platforms that they stand behind; etc etc.

At least these people were all willing to speak up with specific reasons why they've decided to not vote, rather than just shrugging their shoulders and remaining silent.

[conuly]

Yes, I'd love politicians I felt really great and hopeful about supporting... but in this election, c'mon, it's "meh" or "spawn of cthulu".

[dewline]

I'll take "meh" over "spawn of Cthulhu".

[archangelbeth]

I am excited to support most of the local ones! And moderately excited to support the federal candidate! (I'd be more excited if he'd been the one we were stumping for in the primary, but hey, the really annoying one(s) didn't win, so GOOD!)

Sorry yours are meh. Meh will help strengthen the position of the exciting ones in other states? (she said hopefully)

[sathari]

Yeah, and the thing is, even if the ones on your own ballot aren't exciting to you--- chances are that there are ones somewhere else who are, and a vote for the Democratic candidates in your state is a vote to back up, say, Beto O'Rourke in the Senate (as an example of a candidate who's gotten a lot of national squee). (The Bernie bro in particular infuriated me, because does he not understand how the electoral process works AT ALL? And also does he not understand that his personal hero there needs at least 51 votes in the Senate, if not more, in order to get any of the policy positions he espouses anywhere near passing, and likewise needs probably not just a majority but a veto-proof one in the House as well? A vote for any Democrat is the closest you can get to voting for your favorite Democrat/Democrat-adjacent pol.)