sharice davids just unseated a republican in the middle of fucking kansas becoming the first native american woman to serve in the us house of representatives and guess what SHE’S ALSO A LESBIAN
This is why voting for a third party is absolute bullshit and y’all stubborn idiots are so hellbent on being rebellious that you get republicans elected and make shit worse for all of us. Hate me for it if you want but it’s true, third party bullshit fucks us over every. Single. Time. I’m sick of this.
voting third party splits the left vote however many ways there are non-republican options. its understandable why a leftist would want to vote for the person who best fits their idealistic vision for the future, because the left is (at least currently) built on idealism, the need to change things for the better. however, to do that you need to understand how this game is played.
you vote for the option most likely to win, which is the democrat that makes it far enough to be on the ballot, and then you keep voting for everything else. and on top of that you work to get to know your neighbors, and your local businesses, and the people who work in retail, and you just talk to as many of them as you can so people feel connected. and you help support each other so that we can, as a GROUP, push for greater social change.
the left needs to get it together and unite without thinking that doing so would take away each groups sense of purpose and their individual ideals and goals.
you want a revolution? you have to create a sense of stability in your community, and for those people to know each other and know that they can reach out to each other, otherwise that little compost heap in your back yard and the garden in your windosil arent going to be enough to keep you fed if you ever do go off the grid.
the reason republicans win? they work as a unified front. theyll argue with each other and “agree to disagree” but actually work together. the left has the tendency to tear itself down for the sake of moral purity, and its killing all of us.
tldr; third party voting is a symptom of a much larger issue and guilting people is a band-aid.
The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
bullshit central 