Y'all, this is why you need to vote, including your local races. All an ideology like this needs to grow is fertile ground, a propaganda apparatus to spread it, and a willing legislature.

Vote like your lives depend on it, vote like your families' and friends' lives depend on it, because it very well might.

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[+] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Those downvotes you are recieving: they are the point of all of those Disney and Marvel movies. The good guys win, don't worry about it. If you just 'do the right thing' things will turn out ok. The system works. Justice exists and is inevitable.

It never occurs to them that people have been voting this entire time and the result of that is what we have. Voting isn't enough, its not enough, and its not clear it has any real impact whatsoever. If all voting gets you is delay and Joe Biden, what then? Its always the same tired "Vote Harder", "Vote Blue No Matter Who" line of crapola, a line of crapola those espousing don't really have a critical assessment of. They don't really have an answer for systematic change, or answers for when institutions like the DNC decide that your vote just shouldn't matter, as in New Hampshire, or the 2016 primary?

The fact is voting isn't working and it hasn't worked since the Supreme Court overturned the 2000 election of Bush V Gore. These strategies aren't working. If "voting harder" worked, we wouldn't be here right now. But these debutantes who think they know shit and are clicking the down button can't imagine another way. So the react, in the same reactionary way the right wing does.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If everyone voted for Hillary, abortion rights and IVF would still be safe. Despite common belief, The President isn't King. Bernie couldn't have done anything more than Hillary without a Democrat majority in Congress.

So yes voting does work. The problem was the majority didn't care enough about Roe V Wade until their rights were taken away by those who voted for Trump.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Hillary would have nominated better judges than trump. It makes a difference who you vote for.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't occur to us that everyone has been voting this whole time because it's patently and demonstrably false. The very best America has done since 1900 was about 66% (2020 Presidential cycle). 49% in the 2018 midterm was the highest since 1914.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Those numbers are also based off the number of registered voters, the percentage of the entire eligible voter population is lower.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

I guess you should vote twice as hard then.