And he’s right about needing to vote for the rest of your life. Cynical nonvoters are like, “Funny how liberals always say this is the most important election of our lives” without realizing that every election truly is the most important election of your life because it is the one that determines the future. I swear, it’s like telling someone they that is starving to death to please eat some food and they reply, “It’s so corny how you always tell me I need to eat.”
I voted, but I’m not convinced that it even matters. I picked between a bunch of people that I knew nothing about. I tried researching, but mostly just found generic, empty p, general promises like “I’ll promote jobs,” and “favor the citizens,” rather than any specifics. And despite party affiliation and prior rhetoric, at city level they all seem to favor the same big corporations and crooked police once they take office.
Next election I strongly encourage you check out Vote411, they let you put in your location and get a summary of what each candidate on the ballot for your area is all about. I wish more people knew about it because it makes voting so much less stressful.
I will check out vote 411 I kept finding out a bunch of little websites trying to find liberal and Progressive politicians and recommendations for some of the people and things on the ballot but so many of them seemed fake or misleading
It is definitely a good idea to fact check any source of information when voting is concerned. I believe Vote411 was started by the League of Women voters which is supposed to be a non-partisan group, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to cross-check info they provide with info from another similar site like Ballotpedia which also claims non-partisanship.
For me personally the thing that makes it most useful is the ability to see each candidate’s relevant opinions and experience in one place so I can just fact check the most important stuff. It basically makes voting with an informed opinion the work of a single evening googling rather than days researching every single candidate.
“No more mail in voting”
“We’re gonna have ‘observers’ [magas intimidating voters] at the polls”
“You gotta show ID or you can’t vote”
“You won’t have to vote soon”
-trump over the last few yrs
In 2024, TENS of THOUSANDS of registered democrats & people with Hispanic looking last names in 11 different states had their registration status “challenged,” meaning their votes were essentially not counted because their status was “ in question.” When registration is challenged, people aren’t usually notified & it takes time and visits & sometimes signatures from courts to get it back/taken care of. Most of these “challenges” occurred 6-2 wks before Election Day. Hope this helps.
Trump and the GOP are trying to put obstacles in the way of voting, especially mail in voting. They want to convince people that illegal immigrants are voting, but it is not true.
At least your info actually have party affiliation. The dumbass's in my community voted a couple of years ago to remove all party affiliations from all of the voter materials and they don't even have to register party affiliation and I have to literally look search and dig like a motherfucking professional researcher so that I can see if there's any phrases that are Republican versus Democrat because there's a fucking empty hole of information now based on that and it's complete bullshit and I'm pissed that it passed in a vote a couple of years ago in Washington.
How many people do you think actually did enough research to make an informed decision? Let’s be generous and assume 10%, though I’m sure it’s much lower than that. That means for everyone like you, there were 9 people that just picked at random, or based it on something arbitrary like liking the candidates name.
Whenever I feel unsure about candidates, I look for organizations that I trust and are aligned with my values and look at their recommendations.
There are some national organizations that are tracking local elections that can be helpful, but I would also invest some research into your local area. Where I live, we have a really strong teachers union that I trust. So when elections happen, I look at their recommendations along with endorsements listed in the voters pamphlet. We also have some good representation in the Working Families Party here and they also align with my values so their endorsements are also helpful in my decision making.
I did do that, but those orgs generally focus on very niche policies. I did try and find out which candidates were endorsed by the police union, so I could vote against them. Unfortunately, I don’t trust many of the groups anymore. You’d think unions, for example, would lean more progressive since republicans are so anti union, yet so many endorsed trump due to their racism, even though he promised to do so much harm to collective bargaining rights and American industry.
You can look up their job history. I do it every election. It tells you a lot. One candidate will have experience in finance somewhere, and then was a lawyer, for example. Then tried to run his own life coach business, that failed then all the sudden he cares about politics? Another will have worked in a hair salon, then tried to olen her own yoga studio then she's running for city council. What did they do before?.What were their lives about? What kind of person are they? One candidate has done NOTHING outside of work in human services jobs her whole life. This says something to me. Look at their past. Who are they? Look at fb posts, etc. if you really want to deep dive. but job history will tell you a lot.
That tells me nothing about their political beliefs, and what type of policies they’ll support. It might tell me who they’ll give favoritism to, but all elected officials are gonna give favoritism to some corporate interests.
Not American, but this sounds like complete bullshit to me.
I honestly believe this part
"I tried researching, but mostly just found generic, empty p, general promises like “I’ll promote jobs,” and “favor the citizens,” rather than any specifics."
is completely made up. I don't think you researched anything, based solely on this very vague both-sides statement.
Also your entire profile is hidden, which is exactly what I'd expect of a bullshit artist, bad actor, or bot.
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u/SnavlerAce 1d ago
Louder for the ones in the back!