Billions being spent to get your vote and you are gonna stay home?

[Actor]

sad

[timmymoff]

1. I guess like the person I support

we can't be bought nor are as easily fooled.

[Actor]

2. Epitome of privilege, must be nice.

[reddread]

5. the word Billions certainly ranks higher?

[timmymoff]

6. I am in no way privileged

But you feel she deserves privilege of my vote. Can she earn it like everyone else has? Doubtful because of trust. It's hard to trust someone who as been on every side of every issue.

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. So you think principles (can't be bought) and not being easily fooled are the epitome of privilege?

Whoa.

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. Ah, the "privilege" card!

Incoming race and gender cards in 3...2...1...

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Don't forget the ever-popular "guilt" and "fear" cards!

Collect 'em all! Trade 'em with friends!

{And we don't even get a slab of unchewable bubble gum with them.)

[Actor]

22. Not me saying it, well established liberal talking heads all over the country and media

Like I heard Stephanie Miller today who supports Bernie staying in the race getting email after email, tweet after tweet, from Bernie fans calling her an establishment troll, that she doesnt support Bernie.

Real ugly shit and lots of it.

It is very childish what the busters are doing.

[Lizzie Poppet]

23. Nice tangent!

Do you also do sine and cosine?

[Actor]

24. I have to admit, I am in awe of how the propaganda has worked.

[NWCorona]

40. It's too bad you fell for it.

[Buddyblazon]

38. If you're referring to your OP...

Yes...the absolute epitome of privilege.

[Actor]

41. America deserves Trump, I think. With this level of childishness, I think we need

to go ahead and just destroy everything which Trump will do.

Hell yes

You got me excited now

fireworks, sure in the form of nukes, but hey, still fun...

Yeah for TRUMP and the fireworks

Right?

I mean that IS the FUCKING result, right?

[Buddyblazon]

42. Stop with the privilege...

We don't reward children for that behavior...and neither should you be rewarded.

[Actor]

43. No really, you being privileged enough to afford to deport Latinos and the rest, must be nice

[Buddyblazon]

45. Hey...I'm voting in the GE...

I'm just voting for Bernie come hell or high water.

You getting upset would be the privilege part.

[JonLeibowitz]

3. I always vote, and encourage others to! There is great diversity of ideas on the ballot.

[Glamrock]

4. I wouldn't call it sad.

I'd say it was the American way (for the last few decades anyway).

[DesMoinesDem]

7. You think it is sad people's votes can't be bought. You're not on the right site.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. My entire State votes from home, so yeah, we stay home but we vote in numbers higher than

most other States. We vote at a rate two or three times higher than NY, for example. Sadly most Americans who are eligible to vote simply do not bother to do so. On the other hand, that fact makes it easier to find non voters to vote with me. Which is what I do. Which is part of why we have good turnout.
Where do you live?

[MineralMan]

17. Your state is a model of how our elections should be handled.

Oregon gets it right. My state also has very high turnouts, the old-fashioned way, but they'd be even higher if we had mail voting and almost universal registration. Sometimes MN beats OR in turnout, but not always.

BTW, the legislation in MN that will shift us from caucuses to primaries for Presidential elections has passed in one house of our legislature and is almost certain to pass in the other and be signed by our Governor.

Maybe after the 2016 election, we can introduce mail voting here, too. I hope so. There was a resolution to that effect in our package of resolutions at the last convention I attended. It passed overwhelmingly.

[Actor]

18. THanks for reminding me that some people want to vote and cant. They know what is at stake, but the

same group who brainwashes people into believing Hillary is Satan also is preventing people from voting.

[Mnpaul]

9. Unlike the Democrats in Washington

I'm not for sale. Actions earn my vote.

[bemildred]

11. Billions being spent to suppress my vote and I'm going to do it anyway. nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. Billions are spent to get us to accept all sorts of shitty products.

I don't buy those, either.

Oh, and of course I'll stay home. We have 100% vote-by-mail in Oregon.

[frylock]

14. Who said anything about staying home?

[hobbit709]

16. I'm not staying home. I will be voting for Democrats.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. Why would people not vote? Apathy? Passive resistance? Protest?

I always vote. Fortunately, my ballot comes with more choices than "really bad" and "not as bad".

[Actor]

20. The reason you wont vote for the Dem, if you dont, isnt entirely your fault.

You are the victim of 25 years of propaganda.

I will discuss this in more detail in a separate thread.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Not a victim of propaganda. I fully capable of thinking for myself.

[JPnoodleman]

25. Is the DNC entitled to left leaning voters? n/t

[Actor]

26. Wrong question, if you dont know why it is the wrong question, then we need to

start with square one, do we need to do that?

[JPnoodleman]

27. its an apt question, why not answer it?

Or are we going to play this game of shifting goal posts. How about you answer mine or just ask your counter question and cease being coy, it just makes you look like a dick.

[Actor]

32. No, it isnt. Nobody deserves Trump with his finger on the nuclear button or his attitude on

the minority groups of America.

If you are bothered of the fact that the Democratic party is hardly liberal at all anymore, join the club.

If you are bothered that Hillary Clinton is the epitome of the insider, establishment candidate, join the club.

If you are bothered that if Bernie loses it was a chance of a lifetime to actually make REAL and BIG changes, join the club.


You want me to go on? I can.

None of this has a damn thing to do with the FACT that NO sane person of any level of intellect or responsibility does not do everything in her or his power to vote against the insanity of Trump.

How in the WORLD can we be debating that?

[JPnoodleman]

46. Neither you nor I are planning to vote for Trump, the question is why should I vote for Hillary? n/t

[Faux pas]

28. I just think about

all that money being wasted on politics and how many people that money could be helping, that's my definition of sad.

[Actor]

29. That too

[PFunk1]

30. you want my vote? Earn it!

Because you wont get it by terrifying, shaming, cajoling me or any thing like that. And you wont get it with money. You get it by convincing me that they are worthy of that vote. And so far only Sanders fits that bill.

[Actor]

34. My vote doesnt need to be earned, it was earned the minute I heard Trump threaten

to deport 11 million, calling them rapists.

It was earned the minute I heard him say he would ban Muslims from entry.

Sorry to hear that wasnt enough to earn yours, how sad.

[Kelvin Mace]

31. I have yet to meet anyone who says they will stay home

I am sure they exist, but I haven't met one.

I will be voting come election day, just not for HRC (or for Trump).

[Actor]

33. Epitome of privilege, wish I was so lucky

[Kelvin Mace]

48. People had a choice between a good condidate

or a continuation of the Bush-Clinton Dynasty. Now, having chosen wrong, they want us to bail out their bad candidate.

[One Black Sheep]

35. Whose staying home?

But I'm not voting on account of "billions being spent", lol, that is a ridiculous reason to go vote... I'm voting based on wanting to vote, and being a participating citizen...

[seekthetruth]

36. Definitely not going to stay home.....

.....but I will vote my conscience, meaning that I will vote for the candidate who is best able to lead us to renewable energy, an economy that works for the people and not the richest among us, and one that will lead us not towards war but diplomacy and peace.

Needless to say, I think most people know which candidate I'm talking about......

[Actor]

39. Your privilege wont help the millions he will harm. How sad and sick this is

[seekthetruth]

44. How sad it is to continue to destroy our environment

How sad it is to continue to gouge students for getting an education.

How sick and sad it is to keep ignoring our horrible healthcare system.

How sad and sick it is that we have gross income inequality.

How sad and sick it is continuing to believe that America is the world's best country, and deserves somehow to be the leader of the free world when people aren't truly free in our own nation.

Seriously?

[cali]

37. Without a doubt the worst of the scolding/shaming threads

[whatchamacallit]

47. How can you let those corporate billions go to waste like that?!?

What the hell is the matter with you proles?