Finally did some phonebanking this election. I'd been reluctant, but heard from my friend that she was doing it & so succumbed to the peer pressure. ;-)
How did it go?
@LnzyHou not too bad. A couple hostiles, couple nonvoting cynics, an a bunch of enthusiastic Harris supporters.
It’s the non-voters that get me the most.
@LnzyHou @rpardee Seriously.
I can write off the hardcore Trumplicans as either hopelessly deluded by the RW media echo chamber or just sincere believers facism is better than their group losing power.
The privileged unaware and undecided can be won over. The privileged cynics smugly superior doin a "both sides" dance can seriously DIAF.
Ask the folks on CoSo who block politics if they vote. They don’t want to hear it.
Hearing it makes it real.
In most states, next week is the last to register.
#HarrisWalz2024
#VoteBlue
#JoshSteinForGovernor NC
#ColinAllredForTexas
@LnzyHou @rpardee
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
-Plato
It is a privileged position of indifference presuming that if things were really bad "someone would do something." That someone is you, me, all of us.
One reason I am fascinated by the buildup of Nazi Germany is German people weren't inherently evil. Most were just complacent, going along, unwilling to get involved.
All too familiar in America.
40M registered Democrats didn’t vote in 2016. If they had, Clinton would have been president. Not trump.
We get the government we deserve.
And yet, HRC won the popular vote by 3M in 2016. It seems w/compromise to the slave states call The Electoral College, votes only count if they'd been cast in the 7-8 currently called SWING states.
#AbolishTheElectoralCollege #NationalPopularVote
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
"Take Action Now – Tell Your Legislators to Pass National Popular Vote"
What if it was 43M?
🗳
@LnzyHou @Gladari @S_r_stone @rpardee
A friend from Florida was " non political " and never voted. Despite my warning.
Well roe vs wade changed that! 🗳 she said she's all in! So maybe the dems will pick up a few due to it.
@KazzyH @Gladari @S_r_stone @rpardee
I worked the polls in 2020. My job was to enter the paper ballots into the computer. An elderly woman handed me her ballot with tears streaming down her face.
“I’m 82 & this is the first time in my life I’m voting. It’s my fault that trump was elected.”
I did my best to assure her it’s not her fault but she was inconsolable. She promised to vote in every election thereafter.
Never will I forget her guilt & angst
@LnzyHou @KazzyH @Gladari @S_r_stone holy cow, what a story!
@rpardee @LnzyHou @KazzyH @Gladari @S_r_stone
Better late than never!
@rpardee @LnzyHou @Gladari @S_r_stone
It helps that it's on the ballot in Florida at least until DeSantis tries to remove it for the umpteenth time!