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To all of the people who who couldn't be bothered to vote in 2016 (Original Post) Snake Plissken Oct 2018 OP
Damn skippy! Cousin Dupree Oct 2018 #1
Actually, qwlauren35 Oct 2018 #2
I'm not interested in laying a guilt trip on anyone Snake Plissken Oct 2018 #4
exactly demtenjeep Oct 2018 #12
You are missing the point. Kaleva Oct 2018 #7
Jill Stein and Sarandon are happy Gothmog Oct 2018 #3
Myself and a bizzilion other DU'ers countless times begged, pleaeded, cajoled think of the SCOTUS Thekaspervote Oct 2018 #5
+1000. Hortensis Oct 2018 #6
Tthat should go out to all of the people who didn't vote in 2014. LonePirate Oct 2018 #8
Them too Snake Plissken Oct 2018 #9
Not voting? Surrender keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #10
Probably should take this to Facebook or Instagram...the DU'ers are quite politically active. unitedwethrive Oct 2018 #11
K&R ismnotwasm Oct 2018 #13

qwlauren35

(6,148 posts)
2. Actually,
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 05:27 PM
Oct 2018

only a subset of people deserve "scorn". People in Pennsylvania and Florida come to mind.

There were plenty of states where a protest vote did not make a difference and Hillary won.
There were plenty of states where staying home did not make a difference and Hillary won.

So, if you focus your feelings on the people in those states, then go guilt trip THEM. In such a way that inspires them to vote.

Because that's what really matters, right?

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
4. I'm not interested in laying a guilt trip on anyone
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 05:46 PM
Oct 2018

I'm just letting people who can't be bothered to vote what I think of them

Kaleva

(36,312 posts)
7. You are missing the point.
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 06:11 PM
Oct 2018

Every vote counts in every state because just concentrating on Hillary ignores the races for Senate and the House, for governorship's, for state representative and senate and for local positions.

I'm not going to try and guilt the faux liberals who don't vote. I call them fake because progressives KNOW how important each and every election is and we don't need INSPIRATION from others to get our asses to the polls or to send in an absentee ballot.

If they grow up and come to their senses and start going to the polls, that's great. But I'm not going to waste a minute of my life trying to motivate them.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. +1000.
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 06:06 PM
Oct 2018
And for those who imagined not voting for Hillary was a vote of conscience, hopefully a bitter year of learning and regret.

Most unaccompanied children have families who are trying to get the government to release them to their loving care. Instead, the Republicans just secretly transferred, at night, hundreds of "unaccompanied alien children" from group homes to a concentration camp in the desert, probably the "detention alley" area in southwest Texas where a bunch of facilities are springing up. The staffs at some of these homes cried out of fear at what would happen to these children. These children will not have schooling while they're held, btw.



The children who went missing? Over 1000 are still missing, did not find their way to their families, those who had family.

THIS is what treating the vote frivolously in the real world means now: First they promised to come for the immigrants, and I didn't vote to stop them..

Get it?

LonePirate

(13,426 posts)
8. Tthat should go out to all of the people who didn't vote in 2014.
Fri Oct 5, 2018, 06:16 PM
Oct 2018

Garland would be on the Court and Kavanaugh would never have made it out of committee if Dems had turned out in 2014 and prevented Repubs from taking the Senate.

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