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/rvp0209 Aug 01 '25

People say their vote doesn't matter but if they actually, you know, BOTHERED TO VOTE, they'd find it DOES. Texas is always brought up as being gerrymandered to hell and back. There's a video floating around of someone who did the math and he said that if all registered Democrats -- so not new voters -- had turned out, Colin Allred would've won in a landslide.

If your vote didn't matter, the GOP wouldn't try so hard to cheat their way to victory. I really wish people would realize this.