To the Lazy Lefties and Slothful Centrists: F*** all y’all.

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107. fair enough, but i think you'd find a lot less "lazy" voters under less-preventive circumstances

When the commitment to cast a vote is a 2-hour trip to a local precinct hall including a short hassle-free wait in line and filling out a clear, easy-to-read ballot, people will vote like the dickens.

When the commitment is leaving your hourly job early to engage in a 12-16 hour ordeal, including standing outside in inclement weather, followed by getting fucked with by some GOP-activist poll watcher, to gain access to a beat-up flaky touch screen machine that misrecords votes or maybe just fill out a provisional ballot that will probably never be used, well that's going to depress turnout. It takes some real high-profile campaigning with strong party leadership to get people to make that kind of sacrifice, the kind of sacrifice it took to get winning turnout in 2006, 2008, and 2012.

This situation did not arise by coincidence, but by design. Discouraging liberal turnout is the #1 mechanism conservatives have for winning elections, when they bother to win them legitimately.

Now I'm not going to say that there are no lazy Democratic voters, and to them your criticism might be fairly leveraged. However, I'm also not convinced that they compose the main ingredient in our recent midterm losses. On the other hand, there are a lot of discouraged voters who don't want to face down the bullshit that awaits them in the off-year elections, and without some major changes in our GOTV systems, they will remain discouraged and continue to show up only for national elections. And every off-year, the conservatives who dominate most state legislatures will gain the opportunity to make it harder and harder for Democrats to vote. It's a vicious cycle, and we need leaders who are ready to put some serious effort into turning it back the other way.

One thing I'd like to see is making the November election day a national holiday. That alone would significantly change the whole dynamic.