#Tho I guess a big chunk of that 40-something percent are felons

[boobachu]

Forever thinking about how this existed but liberals blame people who didn't vote and people who voted green for Trump winning

Especially how Clinton was like "maybe if you didn't vote green" and I'm like "maybe if you didn't bet on a strawman strategy"

I'm not sure how you tell the difference between "too lazy to vote" and "too disenfranchised to vote" because every stat that shows who didn't vote doesn't differentiate the two, probably because how do you tell the difference between "I have to use all my free time to work or my kids will starve" and "The two headed beast, why bother... gonna smoke weed......"

Like if the Democrats wanted to prevent this from happening again they should make voting a free action, not a pointless gamble. Like at least they've been pushing good policy that's mostly "unfucking everything Trump fucked" (but some are genuine progressive things we didn't have before)

But like, in 2024 if people are unable to afford driving to the polling place, you need to put in some money to take them there.

If people have to take care of their kids and can't vote, you need to be giving some damn daycare.

If people can't vote because they don't have valid ID, you'd better help them get that.

If the republicans try to make Crosscheck 2, you'd better be on them like a pit bull taking down a well, bull.

Then there's all the felons, they can't vote. Like how many of them are in because they touched a weed?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/live-updates/general-election/fact-checking-the-first-democratic-debate/how-many-people-are-in-prison-on-marijuana-charges/

Like, they can't vote even if injecting weed is legal now.

I can't find stats on how many current felons are felons because of weed possession, but could you imagine if they all were pardoned? That would have a huge impact.

I sincerely hope the Democrats don't fucking rest on their laurels and put effort into helping the disenfranchised cuz that's what lost the 2016 election. It wasn't the apathetic voters, it wasn't even the fascist voters, it was the fascist politicians making policy that targeted non-whites.

The democrats in power constantly sulking and blaming the helpless for them not being elected is just frustrating. Like, you're lawmakers, pass some damn legislation that helps.

And if you can't fight it on a legislative level, you'll have to fight it any other way you can. Use that campaign money helping voters vote!

And considering how empowered fascists are right now, that might be literal fighting.

Forever thinking about how, on election day in 2016, I wore a shirt with an American flag on it because it was what was clean. And the 20-ish year old bagging my groceries made a snide remark about it, followed by 'I didn't vote, they're all the same anyways.' And a fellow grocery worker chimed in agreement that he wasn't voting for the same reason.

And now I can't go to a local drag event without having to walk through a gauntlet of nazis.

I realize that the election is a year and a half away, but please don't fall for the 'they're the same' rhetoric this time around. Both candidates will suck, but they'll suck in different ways and one of them wants my community dead.