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.

[dine]

I have never wanted to boot a group of people in the head more than after reading that! omg, those self-focused idiots are super-infuriating

[zesty_pinto]

I've told people time and again to vote even if they didn't like the candidate, that even writing in an abstain shows people you gave a crap to go to the poll and made yourself visible to politicians.

It worked to some degree with 2016, albeit in an unfortunate way with the write ins for Harambe and the like, but the point still needs to be made that laws won't cater to you unless you make yourself visible. These youths don't seem to understand that and that is why I'll probably continue to pay Social Security despite getting nothing from it by the time I get old.

[pauraque]

I would put it a different way: All these people are screwing themselves.

[author_by_night]

Like the Kavanaugh thing — I get that they’re the minority and that was an uphill battle, but I just feel like there wasn’t a big enough fight put up to that, and I think there continues to not be a big enough fight.

So... she's not going to vote? How does that logic work?

I stopped reading after that.

[jtthomas]

Structural difficulty on my part: can’t drive, am two hours from “home”, and “home” is in such a small town that the address to send absentee ballot info to isn’t available online no matter how hard I look. Also, am queer in Massachusetts so if anyone should currently worry about specifics it’s me and those like me. Last I heard, there was a 50/50 chance trans rights would be lost.

Wishing I could vote, but alas.

[silailo]

*reads article* LOL First world problems.

I live in a red section of a blue state and I still vote blue (or independent). Will the Dem house candidate win over the incumbent GOP candidate? Probably not. But I'm voting anyway because there is absolutely no good reason for me not to.

It's especially important for me as a woman because I know women fought long and hard for the right to vote, and I'm going to honor them by casting my ballot.

[kaffy_r]

I couldn't get past the fifth or sixth person.; I think the Bernie Bro who got shirty because his hero did something smart and practical, rather than choosing a ridiculous hill on which to die (and to kill the country while doing so) just turned my stomach sour. They were so insanely self-absorbed, so massively ignorant, and so proud of that ignorance!

[siderea]

Except those who are genuinely facing structural difficulties in voting.

No exceptions. The disabled chick in Arlington, MA? She's twenty-seven. She had eleven goddamned years to find a goddamned stamp to mail in her registration to vote before this election. I'm not buying her lame-ass excuse that because she is disabled it's so damn hard for her and that's why.

Do you have any idea how relentlessly the Commonwealth of Massachusetts attempts to register voters? This woman had to throw out I don't even know how many voter registration cards in her life. They included the form in the reg packet for Medicaid and the paperwork for MassHealth. If the state finds out you exist, they'll send you a registration card just in case maybe you haven't registered to vote yet, whomever you are. I probably could find one right now going through my recycling, and I've been registered to vote at this address for almost 25 years.

[lydy]

The thing I wish they understood: the alternative to participatory democracy is, eventually, revolution. Usually with a period of increasingly brutal tyranny preceding it. When people opt out of the system, it stops responding to them. And even when you don't win, participating causes the politicians to notice you, and step a bit more lightly. I fear guillotines and revolution. It is brutal and damages infrastructure which will cause many thousands of deaths. Voting is your best way to avoid this.

[tielan]

Ooh, let me guess without clicking. It's that "why these young people aren't voting" article!

(Which is totally not designed to encourage other young people to be lethargic about something which their involvement might actually change. Because otherwise they'd have posted "why these young people ARE voting" at the same time to counter it.)