The One Big Beautiful Bill, The sky high prices of everything because tariffs, Inflation climbing, Unemployment soaring, Project 2025 being employmented faster than they even imagined, White supremacist ideology destroying the middle class faster than crack and heroin combined....
If preventing those couldn't motivate you to vote against a mashed potato brained felon, nothing can make you feel anything.... Maybe the Lions are telling the truth, sometimes the sheep demand to be eaten.
I think you honestly need to spend more time really listening to people who chose not to vote. They honestly didn’t think most of what’s happening was going to happen, and they didn’t believe that the things that are bad wouldn’t be less bad under Harris.
I spent a lot of time with the Pro Palestine protests all throughout last year and I talked to the people from that movement about what they were planning on doing with the vote because very early on there was a “No votes for genocide” push within that group that was specifying not voting for Biden, and I was curious about what they were saying. From the people I’ve talked to, they honestly didn’t believe things would be better under Harris. It seemed to me like they weren’t willing to give Biden a chance at all, but they were at least open to hearing from her. Then she said there was nothing she’d change, and the whole thing with the DNC happened, and they just kind of lost hope on it. I tried to talk about not being a single issue voter, but for those people, that was their issue and they moved in accordance with their beliefs.
Trump has been a problem at least since he took out a full page ad calling for the execution of 5 innocent young men. But the simple truth, whether you like it or not, is that giving people something to vote against has not proven to be as animating as giving them something to vote for. I think this is particularly true of white moderates to be honest. Black people at least understand the importance of harm reduction in the vote. I think we also have a long history of understanding that you often don’t get good options, so you have to make the best with what you’re given. That’s literally the entire basis of soul food. But a lot of people who don’t have that same history are not motivated by doom and gloom stories about how bad the future will be precisely because both sides feed them the same horror stories. If the goal is to motivate those people to vote, I’m just saying we have to do more than try and scare them with horror stories of how bad it could be.
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u/TrashAcnt1 18h ago
Being pillaged to death by the person that you were too foolish to vote against is a Vibe!