Please help us in NC!! This volunteer is worn out.

[passiveporcupine]

12. Asking a serious question of all dems here

Why the hell can't we encourage dems to get out and vote? Voter apathy is at a low right now for both dems and repubs and I'm wondering why we can't get enough people to care about change to get out there and vote like every adult should want to do.

What will it take? Voting is a hell of a lot easier than armed revolution. It just seems like people would realize that if enough of us voted, we could enact real change now. We have the candidate who will fight for us. And either candidate is far better than the republicans regaining control of the white house, so what is wrong with people?

It is our lack of participation that allows the republicans to take over state and federal congress and legislature and start their regressive attacks on any progress we've made as a country.

Is there something lacking in our education process that does not instill this responsibility to vote in all our youth? I don't remember leaving high school with that feeling of my responsibility, so maybe that is what is lacking?

It just seems like we keep struggling with this process and we know that if dems showed up at the polls we would win most of the time.

What can we do (I mean other than what we've been doing up till now) to wake people up to the power they hold if only they would exercise it?

I'm so frustrated...not with our elected leaders, but with the people who just walk away as if they are not responsible for what is happening in this country.