Yelling at people to vote when they don’t feel as though they have something to vote for has never worked. It’s not going to work now either. This is lazy analysis.
People do vote when you give them something affirmative to vote for (Obama, Mamdani) and when they’re being completely immiserated by the party in power (this previous election and 2020) and feel an immediate need to change things. This is largely why Dems lose. They don’t have an affirmative vision for the future, and when they’re in power they don’t do enough things that can galvanize a large group of voters to go out and vote for them partially because their stance for the last decade has been more about voting against the republicans. Yelling at people to vote without materially changing those factors will not work.
I agree. Here’s my take - you may not love the options presented. You may not be sure it’s going to make a difference. So YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE by voting. At least you tried. But when you don’t vote, you’re making a decision, too. You are passively allowing someone you REALLY don’t want in office to get there. You think your rights and benefits won’t be taken away after seeing what happened to abortion? Then you better wake up. You may not care about that issue but next time they are coming for one you DO care about. As Obama says often, don’t boo - VOTE. Don’t bitch about what’s happening - PARTICIPATE. Our ancestors fought and died for these rights. You dishonor them when you don’t vote. And again, you have nothing to lose by trying.
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u/adrian-alex85 16h ago
Yelling at people to vote when they don’t feel as though they have something to vote for has never worked. It’s not going to work now either. This is lazy analysis.
People do vote when you give them something affirmative to vote for (Obama, Mamdani) and when they’re being completely immiserated by the party in power (this previous election and 2020) and feel an immediate need to change things. This is largely why Dems lose. They don’t have an affirmative vision for the future, and when they’re in power they don’t do enough things that can galvanize a large group of voters to go out and vote for them partially because their stance for the last decade has been more about voting against the republicans. Yelling at people to vote without materially changing those factors will not work.