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"I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket."
-via this post by @what-eats-owls
So there's something I want to say re: intentionally withholding your vote, and I want to do it without coming across as condescending or dismissive.
I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Technology may have changed, but people are still knocking on doors for specific voters the way they were 12 years ago.
If you say you're not voting/voting 3rd party, the campaign volunteer is supposed to mark that and move on. Their job, in the final month of the election, is to make sure the campaign's supporters have all the information and resources they need to cast a vote.
They aren't collecting data on why you're withholding your vote. They aren't submitting opinion polling results to the campaign. Something like 155 million people voted in the 2020 election, and if you say you're not voting, the campaign is not going to waste a volunteer's time and morale begging you to vote when there are literally millions of other voters to turn out.
Let me repeat that: The campaign does not track why you're not voting. They simply note your vote is not a priority for turnout and move on.
I say this because I see a lot of promotion of non-voting like that's a boycott, when the function is not the same. A boycott is a coordinated mass refusal to engage with an institution—which sounds similar if you see a vote as a good or service to withhold. Unfortunately, it's not.
A vote is a choice you're making as part of a community hiring committee. Your abstention doesn't prevent someone from being hired. It just lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.
All this to say: In my direct experience as an organizer, abstaining from the vote sends a message. That message is not "You need to try harder to win my vote." It's "Don't waste time on me."
#vfd#lemony snicket#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#all the wrong questions#vote for democratic#tumblr post#what-eats-owls#happy destiel election day my friends#if you are a US citizen#please vote#vote#for#democrats#vote for
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scopOphilic_micromessaging_1132 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.
PLEASE VOTE!
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Why Do the Young Vote Left?
Socialist teachers lead them to think of government as a free-money tree.
It’s the gifts. The progressive vibe is that big government will take care of you. It knows what’s best for you. It will redistribute money how it pleases. You need to put a smile on your face while it takes away your laurels, guns and money. “We believe in the collective,” Ms. Harris declared, much like Hillary Clinton’s “it takes a village.” Equity in Schenectady. Handouts for all.
You want proof? Ms. Harris’s Senate voting record is leftward of socialist Bernie Sanders. Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz fawns over China, saying “everyone is the same and everyone shares.” Viva la revolución and Che Guevara T-shirts for all.
This is antifreedom. Too many of today’s youth fall in line with progressives because they’re undereducated and overindoctrinated with someone else’s agenda. I watched in horror as local high-school biology classes spent weeks on the science of recycling centers and only a short afternoon on mitochondria and mitosis. Profit is a bad word. It’s gimme, gimme, whether it’s student loan forgiveness, free healthcare or tax credits.
Who’s to blame? Misguided capitalism-hating social-studies teachers to start, with Tim Walzian thinking: “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” Who is he, Mr. Rogers? Add like-minded college professors. Work ethic and ambition are evaporating.
Worse, Pew Research notes almost a third of currently childless 18- to 34-year-olds aren’t sure if they ever want children. Why? The Harris campaign’s “climate engagement director,” Camila Thorndike, is among the hesitant, telling the Washington Post, “I want to protect them from suffering.” Perpetually pessimistic progressive prognostications induce fear. No wonder U.S. fertility rates are at historic lows.
OK, I know I’m asking for trouble. Every time I write about youth, I get a chorus of comments and tweets telling me I’m an old man screaming, “Hey you kids, get off my lawn.” Yeah, yeah. Very clever. I’m not that old. But in the Kamala collective—as California attempted—private “ornamental” lawns are out, and drought-resistant vegetation is in. Progressives literally want you off your own lawn.
My conversations with young folks who do exhibit some actual drive show their confusion: “I want to do a startup.” Great! To do what? “A sustainable something or other. To save the planet.” OK, is it productive? “What’s that?” Does it scale? “Huh?” Will it do more with less? “Not really, it needs lots of money to keep going and save more of the world.” Sounds like a nonprofit. (That usually invokes a smile.) Actually, wealth comes from delivering ever-cheaper stuff to millions of people, not handouts. “I don’t care about money.”
OK, I say, but progress and societal wealth happen when you delight customers and postpone consumption to reinvest profits into better products. The looks on their faces are as if I’m describing Chinese arithmetic.
Our youth aren’t lazy but lost. Progressives have strong opinions about society but no viable solution beyond handing out other people’s money—taken from the few who actually are productive, drive progress and generate wealth by fulfilling customer needs. It’s a downward spiral: When progressives tax—screaming ���fair share!”—they cripple the productive few who actually create the real non-burger-flipping, get-out-of-your-parent’s-basement jobs.
To aggressive progressives, government is simply a magic money tree. Vote left and dollars appear. The gross incompetence of government—think billions for eight electric vehicle chargers—destroyed healthcare (thank you, ObamaCare) and education (assisted by Randi Weingarten’s teachers union) and is close to destroying energy (net zero), even while the Biden-Harris administration works hard to destroy Big Tech—one of the few productive industries. And I’ll never forgive progressive Hollywood for turning “Star Wars” into unwatchable wokey Wookiee drivel.
What industries will be left standing? Who cares, because the dreamy types think generative artificial intelligence will kill all jobs and government will provide universal basic income so they can Zyn, TikTok and play College Football 25 videogames all day. A naive youthful triumphalism.
This is a false endgame. There is so much more to be invented: drugs, immunotherapy, fusion, self-folding clothes, humanoid robotics, flying cars. Hard brain work plus quality recharging leisure time is the goal, not a nation of welfare queens.
I feel sorry for the youth that do care, do work hard, are productive and help push the boulder of progress up that steep slope, while essentially carrying all the others on their backs. It’s you against the collective, the village, which is always about being supported, pampered, living off someone else’s hard work and then complaining that the handouts aren’t big enough. So, yeah, get off my lawn, while lawns are still allowed.
#Harris#Democrats#Biden#Obama#-----#Vote for#trump#trump 2024#president trump#repost#america first#americans first#america#donald trump#ivanka
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"I vote for deadfront, but not sure if two words or one."
-via a scintillating work chat
#vfd#lemony snicket#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#all the wrong questions#vote for deadfront#dayjob bleed#vote#for#deadfront#vote for
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"...of course I'm not gonna vote for Donald Trump..."
via this tiktok
BLESS THIS POST
#vfd#lemony snicket#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#all the wrong questions#vote for donald#tiktok#hey team we are voting for Harris today r ight?#vote#for#donald#vote for#I'd like to retire the Vote For Donald tag ok
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Cali voters
Vote YES on 6 to end forced labor in prisons! It really is that simple. If you show up for nothing else but this it will be worth it.
Vote YES on 4 for funding for drinking water, wildfire, and natural lands and communities
Vote YES on 3 to put the right for same sex marriage into law and remove old wordage blocking it!
Vote YES on 34 to force drug companies to put their profit towards patient care and allow for medi-cal to negotiate drug prices!!
Vote NO on 36 to stop the reactionary increase of felony charges and sentence times that will fill our jails and courts with low level offenders and cost money that would be better spent helping vs punishing those struggling.
#California#ca#cali#theres more statewide initiatives i just wanna highlight those#polls are open till 8pm and you can register to vote same day at your polls!#look at your county + voting locations and just head over#also check to see if any local groups are helping people get to the polls if thats a concern. look up ''dems [county/city]'' try county firs#stay safe stay vigilant#cali is blue yes but please dont forget about state county and local measures. theres some really great initiatives locally i was happy to#vote for
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#Ginny Hogan#comedian#funny#lol#donald trump#republicans#politics#government#us politics#America#USA#vote#voting#democracy#beauty-funny-trippy#democrats#trump#haha#hilarious#comedy#aesthetic#jokes#humor#election#elections#twitter
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"If you (like me) want 3rd party candidates to be an actual viable option in USA elections so you no longer have to vote for Democrats OR Republicans as your first and only choice, then what we need is Ranked Choice Voting."
-via this tumblr post
If you (like me) want 3rd party candidates to be an actual viable option in USA elections so you no longer have to vote for Democrats OR Republicans as your first and only choice, then what we need is Ranked Choice Voting. In order for that to happen, we as voters have to do two things:
Vote Democrat this fall, because Republicans fucking hate Ranked Choice Voting, and in several Republican-run states they have outlawed it. So if you want it, you have to keep Democrats in power in your state.
Lobby for and then vote for Ranked-choice voting in your state!Many American states have already adopted Ranked Choice voting and several more are set to do so in 2024. The ball is literally already rolling on this, we just need YOU to help it along.
#vfd#lemony snicket#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#atwq#vote for democrats#tumblr post#it's that time of (every four) year(s) again#I'm not american but ranked choice ballots are the way to go#vote#for#democrats#vote for
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Headlines across eight years. Who you vote for really does matter. None of these headlines delve into the Boar's Head listeria outbreak because I can only post ten photos in one post. But the slaughter house self regulate headline? Yup, that's why.
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#rafael edward cruz#ted cruz#freedom of speech my ass#freedom of speech#free speech#politics#vote blue#vote democrat#please vote#voting#election 2024#get out the vote#american politics#us elections#pronouns#deadname#gender identity#genderqueer#gender#labels#preferred names#preferred name#kamala harris#kamala 2024#vote kamala#kamala for president#harris#election#president#presidency
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What an unsurprising & completely expected turn of events that literally everyone saw coming 😮
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You guys realize this means we ALL have to vote now. No "don't wanna vote biden" excuses now- if we don't vote our rights are going to be taken away.
#joe biden#donald trump#vote!!!#vote blue#vote! vote! vote!#vote democrat#trans rights#protect trans lives
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Biden-Harris Admin Said a $1B Program Would Bring Thousands of Solar Panels to Puerto Rico. Years Later, Only a Few Have Been Installed.
#Biden#Obama#kamala harris#walz#failure#Democrats#vote for#trump#trump 2024#president trump#ivanka#repost#america first#americans first#america#donald trump#democrats
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“Vote for DUCKS by @beatonna in this year's @goodreads Choice Awards”
-from this tweet about our friend Kate Beaton’s new book
#vfd#lemony snicket#asoue#a series of unfortunate events#kate beaton#hark a vagrant#vote for ducks#beatonna#tumblr darling#it's probably too late for you to vote in this poll now#BUT I highly recommend this book#one of the best I read last year#it's a graphic memoir of Kate's two years in the Alberta oils sands#and the tolls that industry takes on the environment and mind#trigger warning for violence against women and misogyny though#vote#for#ducks#vote for
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