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Autumn

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24. If Democratic leadership and elected Democrats can't pull up their big boy pants

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Tue Jan 4, 2022, 06:26 PM

Jan 2022

and do the work required to overcome the shenanigans of the Republicans who are passing legislation right and left to stop people from voting, and getting rid of the fillibuster would do a lot then what do you expect from we Democratic voters who show up every election and work to GOTV? I think it may be illegal to drag people to the polls to force them to vote

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If we, as Democrats, are apathetic about the 2022 midterm elections, [View all] MineralMan Jan 2022 OP

And I suggest the first thing each of us do is contact our reps ESPECIALLY if they are Democratic Eliot Rosewater Jan 2022 #1

I will check with the Embassy here to see if they will be letting Americans vote in secondwind Jan 2022 #2

What the GQP did is not shenanigans, it is election rigging. gab13by13 Jan 2022 #3

We have to make sure the candidates know redstatebluegirl Jan 2022 #4

Post removed Post removed Jan 2022 #5

My answer TheRealNorth Jan 2022 #7

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Sometimes you vote against not for qazplm135 Jan 2022 #9

Agreed. Framing the vote is critical. Pantagruel Jan 2022 #10

I'm skeptical qazplm135 Jan 2022 #12

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We're not giving up, so much as being shut up, shut out, shut down. Budi Jan 2022 #6

That's true.... TheRealNorth Jan 2022 #8

And if you ARE from some small town in the Midwest, but are... JHB Jan 2022 #13

This isn't true, we don't flood info mediums like we should and the M$M isn't even the most popular uponit7771 Jan 2022 #18

We don't flood soc media with botnets & troll farms from abroad either. Budi Jan 2022 #21

RIGHT !! We can do the same but with facts and reality uponit7771 Jan 2022 #31

We can't afford apathy, but allegorical oracle Jan 2022 #11

Don't let a forecast become a self-fulfilling prophecy DFW Jan 2022 #29

The apathy/nihilism adjustment can start with Manchinema wellst0nev0ter Jan 2022 #14

Omg. This began long before Manchin or Sinema became the go-to blame. Budi Jan 2022 #22

You're right. We'll just blame the next electoral on Defund or Antifa or something wellst0nev0ter Jan 2022 #23

LOL. No lets just shove the entire blame for the failure of our Democratic process on ...ummmm... Budi Jan 2022 #25

As long as it is not the Dem leadership wellst0nev0ter Jan 2022 #26

2 people. That's all you came up with. I can name 6. Budi Jan 2022 #27

Those two people are certainly the biggest problem wellst0nev0ter Jan 2022 #28

I mean qazplm135 Jan 2022 #35

I guarantee you they did not use all the tools they had to pass BBB wellst0nev0ter Jan 2022 #36

The strategy folks qazplm135 Jan 2022 #37

All elections have consequences BlueIdaho Jan 2022 #17

probably apathy may not be exactly the description, more like depressed/despondent msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #19

Indeed! We need to continue the 2018-2020 waves... Wounded Bear Jan 2022 #20

If Democratic leadership and elected Democrats can't pull up their big boy pants Autumn Jan 2022 #24

This midterm is an either-or DFW Jan 2022 #30

Exactly! MineralMan Jan 2022 #32

I agree rockfordfile Jan 2022 #33

I've already been donating to Warnock & Kelly AZProgressive Jan 2022 #34