Jesus christ stop projecting your party’s failure onto us. You don’t even know whom we voted for, and it turns out the ones that didn’t vote were right all along, so how about you focus on getting a winning candidate and platform and not blaming others for your own failure.
Hey, beyond apathy, as an outsider, I want to point out the fact that voter registration seems extra complicated in the US, and designed to prevent people from voting. Coupled with voter roll purges, and other measures, it requires extra determination to vote. When I learned how it’s done in the US, I was horrified. Some people have to go through a lot just to vote.
Where I live we’re all automatically registered. It’s the election bureau that makes all the work from what the government already knows about us. We get a card in the mail every election telling us we’re registered. That’s it. We can also register directly at the polls super easily. AFAIK voter fraud is nonexistent.
Funnily enough, it wasn’t complicated at all for me to register to vote in the state of North Carolina. I’ll never forget it.
I turned 18, I went down to the DMV to get my motorcycle permit along with updating my teen provisional license for an adult license. I passed the simple little tests, the DMV worker asked me height, weight, eye color, hair color, address. At the time, NC licenses could have one of several state themed backgrounds; the silhouette of the state, the state seal, the Hatteras lighthouse, the Wright flyer, I picked the plane. Want to be an organ donor? Sure. And the next thing she said to me is seared into my brain:
“Okay, we’ll just register you for Selective Service…Would you like to register to vote?”
So here’s what you do to register to vote in the state of North Carolina. When a woman in a weird half-cop uniform working at the DMV asks you if you wanna, you say “Y-Yeah.” and “Which party?” Say “Uhh. Independent?”
I’ve voted in every election, maybe not every primary but every election, since that day.
In many (most? all?) states, you only get to vote in the primary for your registered party, while independent gets a selection. This is likely intended to avoid a spoiler vote, where a democrat might vote in the republican party for the most abhorrent choice – though I think this is the kind of thing that can backfire and get us a Trump presidency.
WE sure didn’t choose Kamala to run against these people. Maybe the Democratic party ought to be democratic. Anyways, I see no evidence that Kamala would have held Israel back. Biden sure as hell didn’t.
I downvoted because I am not a US citizen, yet you said “we” as if this sub-lemmy is only for US citizens. I don’t like the language and the US-centric thinking it implies. Thus the downvoting.
I’m not a USian either, so I get your point, but wherever you are, look to your leaders and decide if they’re really the sort you want. The OP’s point stands in a more general sense than just those two stains on humanity
we chose these people. it doesn’t matter that you did not vote, you chose this. apathy kills, and apparently it kills us.
Jesus christ stop projecting your party’s failure onto us. You don’t even know whom we voted for, and it turns out the ones that didn’t vote were right all along, so how about you focus on getting a winning candidate and platform and not blaming others for your own failure.
I feel like in the case of Putin, it’s a very loose definition of the word “choice”
He blackmailed his political opposition when entering the public eye.
Hey, beyond apathy, as an outsider, I want to point out the fact that voter registration seems extra complicated in the US, and designed to prevent people from voting. Coupled with voter roll purges, and other measures, it requires extra determination to vote. When I learned how it’s done in the US, I was horrified. Some people have to go through a lot just to vote.
Where I live we’re all automatically registered. It’s the election bureau that makes all the work from what the government already knows about us. We get a card in the mail every election telling us we’re registered. That’s it. We can also register directly at the polls super easily. AFAIK voter fraud is nonexistent.
Funnily enough, it wasn’t complicated at all for me to register to vote in the state of North Carolina. I’ll never forget it.
I turned 18, I went down to the DMV to get my motorcycle permit along with updating my teen provisional license for an adult license. I passed the simple little tests, the DMV worker asked me height, weight, eye color, hair color, address. At the time, NC licenses could have one of several state themed backgrounds; the silhouette of the state, the state seal, the Hatteras lighthouse, the Wright flyer, I picked the plane. Want to be an organ donor? Sure. And the next thing she said to me is seared into my brain:
“Okay, we’ll just register you for Selective Service…Would you like to register to vote?”
So here’s what you do to register to vote in the state of North Carolina. When a woman in a weird half-cop uniform working at the DMV asks you if you wanna, you say “Y-Yeah.” and “Which party?” Say “Uhh. Independent?”
I’ve voted in every election, maybe not every primary but every election, since that day.
Why is there a party affiliation at registering?
Primaries.
In many (most? all?) states, you only get to vote in the primary for your registered party, while independent gets a selection. This is likely intended to avoid a spoiler vote, where a democrat might vote in the republican party for the most abhorrent choice – though I think this is the kind of thing that can backfire and get us a Trump presidency.
WE sure didn’t choose Kamala to run against these people. Maybe the Democratic party ought to be democratic. Anyways, I see no evidence that Kamala would have held Israel back. Biden sure as hell didn’t.
I am responsible for my brother’s sin
You are responsible for the Republicans winning I agree on that part.
to the downvoter, why do you fear the truth…the only reason to downvote herei is to hide things…
I downvoted because I am not a US citizen, yet you said “we” as if this sub-lemmy is only for US citizens. I don’t like the language and the US-centric thinking it implies. Thus the downvoting.
I’m not a USian either, so I get your point, but wherever you are, look to your leaders and decide if they’re really the sort you want. The OP’s point stands in a more general sense than just those two stains on humanity