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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I agree.
This is why I think Mandatory Voting needs to be established in the US (as a form of Bi-Yearly Tax for those that don't do it in National Elections); Voter Apathy is too great in this country, and it's skews the Country too much to the Right.
I agree with that as well, but Mandatory Voting would help more so. It'd also help organizations that help people register to vote, by giving them more people to help register.
edited 4th May '17 8:13:35 PM by DingoWalley1
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good point.
I doubt you meant me but I have to underscore that I'm not being apathetic, that would be not voting at-all. But it's a fact that for the most part I'm a single drop of blue in an ocean of red.
edited 4th May '17 8:12:32 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI very much doubt you'd find much support for mandatory voting in this country. Probably along free speech grounds; freedom to express yourself also means freedom to not do it.
What we really need is to move voting to a time that's much more convenient for modern day schedules, and then declare it a holiday. (And possibly write in a law that makes it illegal to punish someone for taking off work to go vote, because a lot of people are simply afraid to take any time off at all.)
And also automatic registration on your eighteenth birthday. Registration booths placed in high schools and colleges for the students. Student ID standing in as a legal ID just the same as fucking gun licenses.
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No one is saying that the person couldn't give either a blank ballot, or a ballot filled with Mickey Mouse's and Harambe's. I just think it's absolutely important that 95-99% of the Population vote so that actual representatives of the People, not just the voting People, are picked. Plus, just like Obamacare, I'm sure people would come around to it, especially since people would only ever have to fear the Tax every 2 years.
I do agree that we should make Election day a National Holiday that no one has to work or go to school on, though.
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That's... a very nice sentiment. But I am not confident or convinced that Georgia will turn blue or purple anytime soon. I would love if it could but I'm not counting on it and neither should anyone else.
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Oh no I didn't feel that you were attacking anyone, I just wanted to make my position clear
edited 4th May '17 8:19:03 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangRe-enfranchising felonies would be pretty good too. Both in practical terms for Democrats, and just in a spirit-of-democracy way.
Do that and a lot of Southern states would probably become more competitive. Which is probably the main reason it won't happen, but, it's something to fight for.
I think the governor of Viriginia tried to move towards that but I don't remember how it went.
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Even so, for every small step, can come with a huge leap for the unknown tomorrow.
After all, each now and then, there's always the time where evil can show up to the world and tries to fuck it up at every inch of it, but time and time again, they failed to achieve all of their goals and submit Humanity to their doctrine. The current focused evil is Trump and his croonies and as times shown, they won't totally succeed as well.
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So it's also one of evolving freedom, compassion, independence and kindness if you look deeper into it. As far as I'm concerned, they're many people talking about on how ugly or beautiful the world is from the perspective of obnoxious cynics and naive optimists.= respectively.
Me and others on the other hand? Believe in both and respect both and know their existence, but always trying to not get stuck with each other for too long...you should know the beauty side more often than ever man, it's nothing less or even more of the ugly side as well.
So that means that either they were too ignorant to know of the consequences because they want to make their own bill regardless, or are just to eagerly misanthropic and nihilistically expecting on how their opponents will die anyway is the only answer they want?
edited 4th May '17 8:41:29 PM by Luigisan98
The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.The GOP hasn't started up concentration camps yet.
Ted Cruz I think has pointed out that it was the democrats who have the history of that and not the GOP, and sadly he's not wrong about that although it's wilfully ignorant of the circumstances and basically everything the parties have done and become since then.
I'm not surprised the GOP Reps didn't read the bill before voting on it. Trump apparently didn't read it either.
That said, while I don't think all of the Democratic Party Reps read through the whole thing either, I do still think they at least read up on the horrible downsides and loopholes and didn't just vote against it for the purpose of obstruction.
edited 4th May '17 8:53:29 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised

There are always other important things to vote on, even if just local elections and initiatives.