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'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History
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The percentage of people who don't vote hasn't changed much in 100 years. Call them lazy, uneducated, apathetic, etc, it makes no difference. They don't vote and that's all there is to be said about it. If you're waiting around for them to start voting for your preferred candidate you're going to be waiting for the rest of your life. Stop talking about them and start making other plans.
There is plenty of discussion how this last election people didn't move rightwards, they moved couchwards. The absolute numbers voting for president went down substantially. I bet a good number of those were protest non voters.
The difference in non-voters between 2020 and 2024 was enough to swing the election.
And it swung the 2020 election. Biden still holds the record for the most votes of any president ever, Trump was number 2 for the most votes ever in that same election.
You cannot swing for the center and hope to flip some republicans. They vote on a single issue, and that issue is usually, "who will hurt the people I hate most". They like to play it off as "Fiscally republican" or some other shit, but it's all lies and falls apart if you pull on the threads of their reasoning.
Yeah maybe its the job of the politicians to go out and get peoples votes and listen to what they're concerned about rather than just sitting there saying well you have to vote for us cuz that guys worse
They ran on universal healthcare and taxing the rich. Their sitting president was one of, if not the most, progressive president in our lifetimes with a strong economic recovery record. They even listened when their base told them Biden was too old and gave them a younger candidate.
Just admit that the dumbfucks that voted 3rd party or didn't vote were single issue losers who couldn't see the forest for the trees and now we have fascism in America.
If you're so entitled you need to be personally courted to stand up against fascism then Idk what to tell you.
Like another plan like move out of the country to somewhere smart ?
so only non voters and MAGATS are left behind to shoot them selves in the foot
I think they are already doing that.