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askshivanulegacy · 10 months ago

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THIS. This is why your vote MATTERS.

There are bigger things at stake than your feelings over not having the perfect candidate.

You're not voting for a candidate. You're voting for a party, which is nothing but a TOOL to do things with. You're voting for the US, and you're not voting for anyone else.

Did you know?

Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections going back to 1992? The only time the GOP has won the popular vote in the last 36 years in a presidential election was in 2004, and it was a pretty narrow margin. This was a wartime election and the first election post-9/11. The Democratic candidate was the unfortunately uninspiring John Kerry, who had been lied about. You know how in politics we say someone has been "swiftboated" when a successful lie is told about them? That term originates with the 2004 election because a bunch of people concocted an elaborate lie about John Kerry's military service. He wasn't super inspiring as a candidate, but that was the worst thing he did. He wasn't a bad guy. He was just running in a very gross, jingoistic time after the worst terror attack in American history, and had a bunch of successful lies told about him to the point where a whole word about a specific kind of lie was invented about it. THIS is the only time since 1988 that the Republican party has won the popular vote. George W. Bush did not win the popular vote in 2000. The Supreme Court ordered that votes stop being counted in Florida and handed the victory to Bush.

Donald Trump has never ever won the popular vote. The electoral college handed him the victory in 2016, less than 15,000 votes across three states decided the election. Hillary Clinton in total won about 3.7 million more votes than Donald Trump. Trump HATES hearing this number. He hates even more that Joe Biden got about 7 million more votes. He hates even more that you bring up the fact that he lost his midterm elections for his party in 2018, badly. And that the "Red Wave" in 2022 did not happen because of backlash at his Supreme Court. Or that in 2023 voters continued to reject his Supreme Court at the polls.

He knows, the Republicans know, that if more people vote, they lose. They don't want small d democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want to suppress it.

So when you get cute about not wanting to vote, you're not doing activism. You're surrendering.

#go vote!#I feel like the people who don't want to vote just because of Israel must be very juvenile #like #barely out of college (if that) with no real perspective or thought toward the country and the world as a whole #they're all trapped in performative moralistic sjw social media nonsense #and haven't learned how to think for themselves or make decisions for themselves or to think critically at all #and tumblr and all the other platforms definitely perpetuate that for a longer timespan #so this juvenile thinking lasts longer than it would for a normal person who doesn't make social media their life #if you haven't had exposure to standing up for yourself and for investigating things and questioning things critically before social media #then rip #that mental/social development is hindered #sad really #probably the best impact you can have in encouraging people to vote is to do it in realtime in your real life communities #the people online who already have a clue are already gonna vote #and the people who don't can't be swayed by information or logic because they're marinated in fake guilt so all that matters is their own #feelings for themselves and some arbitrary 'does the party DESERVE things' nonsense which has no real meaning #it's not about what the party deserves. you don't even look at the party as a 'recipient.' No.#the party is a TOOL with which you shape your country #those are the only tools on the shelf so you better pick one to get your shit done

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