#and for a lot of minority blocs ie poor people disabled people elderly people there is an active barrier to voting

[brinnanza]

people saying "Republicans voting is what got us here so you also need to vote" are not wrong necessarily but the argument does tend to ellide how vigilantly Republicans have been eroding the right to vote for the last well forever. like yeah, you should vote but let's not pretend Republicans haven't been intentionally making it as hard for anyone who isn't a rich straight white man as possible.

that being said if voting didn't do anything they wouldn't be trying so hard to make sure we couldn't do it.