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(90,993 posts)Who the hell is voting for the other assholes like him?????
THAT is where we have to concentrate more strategic efforts. Either to convert or rehabilitate some of them or else blunt their impact by cultivating more voters on OUR side to cancel out and hopefully overwhelm whatever voting strength or numbers they have. When I hear from and read posts by people - elsewhere AND here, too - who whine that it isn't perfect enough so they're gonna sit this one out, or they blather "meh, they're all the saaaaaaaame", I just want to SCREAM!!!!!!!!
It's - I'm sorry but - NUMB-SKULLS like that, unfortunately too many on our side, who make it possible for the ted cruzes of the world to make it to Washington. When you look at the low numbers of voters, and you hear the bad guys saying again and again - "the FEWER people voting, the better OUR chances!" And when you see them doing everything they can to limit and restrict voting blocks that traditionally and reliably come out for OUR side, DOESN'T THAT SAY SOMETHING TO YOU???? SHOULDN'T THAT SAY SOMETHING TO YOU OTHER THAN "Sorry, SCREW YOU, I've Gotta Stand My Ground"????????
ISN'T THAT FAIR WARNING?
ISN'T THAT SUFFICIENT TO CONVINCE YOU TO STEP UP????
ISN'T THAT MOTIVATION ENOUGH TO GO FOR GOOD IF PERFECT STILL SOMEHOW HASN'T SHOWN UP?????
ISN'T THAT ENOUGH TO SUCK IT UP AND DANCE WITH WHAT THERE IS????? Rather than waiting for some magical perfect candidate that doesn't exist and never did????????????
ISN'T THAT ENOUGH TO GET YOU OFF YOUR HIGH HORSES AND JUST GO VOTE - if for NO other reason than to keep a REAL bad guy out of power?????
DO YOU REALLY THINK BOTH SIDES ARE EXACTLY ALIKE?????????
Sorry to shout. But y'know what? TOO DAMN BAD!!!! I'm sick of hearing from the people who should be on our side and should be relentlessly grabbing every opportunity we have to weigh in, in substantial numbers, and keep the bad guys OUT OF POWER - who decide they just simply must skip it out of some cockeyed utopian principle that gets you NOWHERE in the real world!!!!!!! If YOU stayed home when it came time to go vote, out of some imagined perfection-only grudge or hissy-fit, then YOU are to blame for assholes like this getting into power.