Liberals! You are NOT free. Get your butts out and VOTE.

[CousinIT]

. . .

. . . White liberals, even now, after a preponderance of the evidence to the contrary, still believe that it’s up to the leaders of the Democratic Party to give Democratic voters a reason to vote in November. If they lose, white liberals say, the Democrats will only have themselves to blame.

What does enthusiasm have to do with self-preservation?

I don’t know about you, but when someone’s drowning, I don’t want the lifeguard asking beachgoers to inspire him to do his damn job.

. . .

I want the hearings to pull the scales from the eyes of white liberals. I want the evidence to show that they cannot thrive, no matter how white they are, when the democratic will of the people is optional to a political party with a highly armed paramilitary wing that has been terrorizing the public while demanding the public just live with it.

There is no definition of freedom that includes:

A million Americans dead from preventable disease.
More kids killed by guns than cops and soldiers.
44 percent of the GOP saying mass death is acceptable.
Voters forgetting about the J6 insurrection, according to Bloomberg. Indeed, “they’ve been rewarding election deniers.”

I want white liberals to see they are not free – to see that the white power they inhabit, the one they have the power to ignore if they choose to, gives only the illusion of freedom. In that illusion, white liberals might not feel the urgency to vote. After all, they have the luxury of blaming the Democrats for being “bad at messaging.”

Who needs an autocrat when white people, even white liberals, surrender their democratic advantage in exchange for the comfort and security of white power? White liberals will always have a choice.

I hope they choose freedom.

https://www.editorialboard.com/will-white-liberals-choose-to-liberate-themselves-from-the-illusion-of-freedom/

[Pachamama]

1. In liberal Marin County, CA where it's mostly white democrats - only 20% of registered voters

…voted yesterday.

20 Percent

WTF

[2naSalit]

2. That's terrible!

[Murphyb849]

3. I am 66 years old and have seen many dismal turnouts in primaries

But impressive turnout for the Presidential election. I choose to be positive, try to enlist as many people to vote as I can, share the truth, and not have a defeated self fulfillment prophecy. That's what the Repubs want....that we feel we are defeated before we even vote. Hell no.

[PXR-5]

4. The Excuses I Hear While GOTVing;

Knocking on known Democrats doors in a red county.

1. She / he has emails

2. God won't let bad things happen to this nation.

3. Democrats have not raised minimum wage since the Clinton era, even Bush raised it, Obama didn't.

4. My vote won't count, it's a red state and red county.

5. I don't want to get involved anymore, my neighbors threaten me.
(This one I fully understand, my neighbors light my campaign signs on fire and shoot their guns in their yards to upset me and my dogs).

6. Even if we have a Democratic president, representative, governor and mayor, they will not enforce the laws, the police and other authorities only inforce what they believe. (Hard to argue with that).

[Celerity]

6. this one's literally insane, it's utterly dangerous, wilful suspension of disbelief magical thinking

2. God won't let bad things happen to this nation.

That same wilful suspension of disbelief (that is necessary to believe in a god or gods) is the same force that animates the Christofascists with their various lunatic broths of which they drink deeply from.

It opens up the nation to all sorts of shitbaggery, as once you ('you' meaning the majority of all people, not just the RWNJ's) accept the biggest, oldest woo (and its inevitable human-made religions that spring forth from that magical thinking) in human history, you are playing with forces that have brought forth the greatest tragedies, suffering, wars, destruction, torture, guilt, misery, hate, subjugation, desolation, darkness, and death throughout that very same human history.

[VGNonly]

5. 2010 election

63 house members went to the dark side. President Obama called it a "shellacking".

GOTV!