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CousinIT

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4. "Reproductive Freedom is the #1 issue among those that DID NOT vote in 2020."
Thu May 25, 2023, 07:52 AM
May 2023


This makes NO SENSE to me. if Reproductive Freedom is important ie: #1 issue - WHY WOULD YOU *EVER* NOT VOTE?

This is the thing that yanks my chain about all this. When I hear people talk about Roe v Wade being overturned and draconian abortion restriction enacted in their states, my FIRST QUESTION is "I wonder if they bothered to VOTE?"

My guess is, a LOT of them didn't. They took these rights for GRANTED. They didn't vote in 2016, 2018, 2020...etc. And NOW...?

NOW???

NOW??? NOW it's too late. It will be HELL getting rights back that FIFTY PERCENT of the US population HAD but are now lost BECAUSE. PEOPLE. DIDN'T. BOTHER. TO. VOTE. (at least partially for that reason)

“Reproductive Freedom is the #1 issue among those that DID NOT vote in 2020.”

Those NOT voters - CONDEMNED American women to reproductive slavery.

My guess is they may NOT vote in 2024 either. And why? "Well I don't like Biden or Trump (or whoever the Asshole Party nominee is)". OR, "Biden is too ooooollld!" OR "there's no poooint!" OR "I don't like...blah blah blah". They didn't like Hillary.

They don't like their choices on the ballot. Wah. Wah. Wah.

SO NOW WOMEN IN AMERICA HAVE NO REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES because some voters would not GROW UP and goddamned VOTE for who the nominees ARE, preferring instead to whine and pine for some fantasy world where their PERFECT candidate is on the ballot and because they're not, then the voter stays home.

UGH!
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