If it feels like someone is trying to make you think your vote will not count

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112. Again, I'm not talking about me

Believe it or not there are way more people who don't pay close attention to the information overload and every day goings on of politics and the minutiae of what Congress does or doesn't do. Many are lazy, many don't have the time amidst all they have to do in order to make ends meet. They don't have time to "take a closer look".

Maybe the choice isn't sitting on the couch or voting. Maybe it's working their multiple jobs. Maybe it's spending time with their family. Who knows what it is, but it's condescending to assume that if someone doesn't have time to pay attention and can only look at the current state of their life and the current state of the country that it's because they're busy sitting on their asses. They don't know about the fillibuster. They know that there is a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate and that despite some nominal progress, the country is in as shitty a state as it's ever been. And there's not enough full throated defense from the Dems to counteract that. It feels like the Democrats are more concerned with winning Meet The Press and Morning Joe than they are winning voters.

Those same people can look right at the Republicans and know what they stand for without having to work at it or dig deeper or find a website that lists their issues clearly and concisely. Far too many can't do the same for Democrats. And that's the core of their problem. They're too worried about appealing to the high information, mythical "independent" as defined by their buddies in the beltway media and not enough to the average person struggling to get by.

But yes, I know it's easier to dismiss all those people as "lazy" because they don't have time to peruse and argue on political websites all day.