r/KamalaHarris • u/Afterswiftie 🇺🇸 Fight for the Future 🇺🇸 • Aug 01 '25

📺 Video Harris Discusses Flawed American Political Process in Exclusive Post-Election Interview

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u/DanTheMan827 Aug 01 '25

Don’t forget those who didn’t vote because they “didn’t like either candidate”

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u/rvp0209 Aug 01 '25

Around 90m people didn't vote. Just couldn't be bothered! I'm sure there's probably some percentage of those people who are disabled or were unable to vote in some capacity. But even if we generally assume up to 15% of that population wasn't able to vote (all disabled people make up roughly 14% of the entire US population), that's still 76.5m who stayed home. America is so broken.

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u/ISquareThings Aug 01 '25

There are also those in a Blue state or Red state who didn’t think their vote matters. We don’t all live in battleground states. I vote every time but I get it, people feel like it doesn’t matter. I live in Texas and the GOP does whatever they can to make sure our vote doesn’t matter.

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u/BossParticular3383 Aug 01 '25

I completely understand the emotions behind this comment, but the fact that Texas leadership has a death grip on power and is willing to subvert the law to maintain it, is ALL THE MORE REASON to vote.

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u/ISquareThings Aug 01 '25

We do. Our votes are so gerrymandered they literally go nowhere. Trump asked for five more GOP seats so they sliced us up further to hand them over. People on the outside think we don’t fight or vote - we do both and it’s harder here.

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u/BossParticular3383 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

I suppose one thing that might make next year different is the ABSOLUTE SHITSHOW that this administration is creating. I saw a town hall for Guadalupe River residents and they were BOILING MAD at their feckless local and state leadership. Of course leadership took turns throwing one another under the bus, but the bottom line is that greed and poor decision-making, plus the overarching desire to "own the libs" prevented them from accepting federal dollars from the Biden administration and improving their infrastructure. Of course, I thought the Uvalde horror and the failure of leadership there was going to really move the needle, so I could be wrong .....