ladypolaris:madamkistulot:kawuli:astrond:Vote! Because all our futures depend on it.In 2008 INDIANA
ladypolaris:madamkistulot:kawuli:astrond:Vote! Because all our futures depend on it.In 2008 INDIANA went for Obama. Decisions are made by those who show up. As long as we’re being politically aware, can we please acknowledge that the reason there’s such little voter turnout is because the Democrats are afraid to actually stand for something in part because so much of their party line resembles that of their opponents?They’ve started to support pro-life candidates.They refuse to embrace single payer.They refuse to embrace free higher education.They insist capitalism is important to their identity even as it kills so many people.They won’t take any stand against bigotry if it isn’t incredibly politically advantageous to do so.Engagement soars when people at least pretend they stand for something, even when their actual record as a politician ends up being pretty garbage (See Obama’s many war crimes as an example of someone who hyped up their presence and then left a legacy of death behind that many are afraid to engage with directly.)This is not merely a fault of lazy voters–this is a fault of a party that frankly doesn’t care if their opposition wins enough to do anything about it. There are individual dems, yes, but as a platform they’re full of hand wringing centrists supported by people yelling to vote for them no matter what even if the candidates oppose abortion rights, have a racist voting record, are anti-union, etc.Ajit Pai was first put into the FCC by a Democrat. His conflicts of interest weren’t new.We need to stop pushing forth this wall of “Vote Dem”We need to start harassing Democrats to be better than just “the lesser of two evils”You don’t get people to the left to go to polls because of fear–that’s been shown time and time again. Low voter turnouts happen every time that the Dems just do a lot of hand waving and go “look at what things could be”We need to tell the cowardly centrist party to stand for something, or kindly take their money and go away so that the field is more open to someone who will actually give half a damn about more than “the middle class” which has been code for “we only care about you if you own a house” since before I was born.What part of “the Republicans put children in cages” do you not get? Vote against them and THEN harass the Democrats into supporting your causes! This is literally fascism vs neoliberal shiftiness. DO NOT CHOOSE FASCISM. -- source link