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Lanius

(662 posts)
15. People need to vote!
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 06:15 PM
Oct 2018

I hope this teaches all of us (but especially angry liberals, Green Party spoilers and the "non-political&quot ) that elections have consequences, that the parties are not the same, and that you can't rely on a Republican to do the right thing no matter how "moderate" they make themselves out to be.

Susan Collins might say she's a moderate and all that crap, but she almost always sides with her party. Same with Jeff Flake (fitting name).

Instead of relying on "moderate" Republicans to save the country from the right-wing wackjobs in the Republican Party, maybe left-leaning constituencies should turn out and f-ing vote from now on! I'm talking about all those demographics that hardly ever show up in numbers equal to the old white people who vote for the GOP. These include young people, some minority groups, liberals/progressives/the Far Left, and the 40-50% of "non-political" people who would rather watch Dancing with the Stars take the time to vote.

By not voting, especially in Congressional elections, sane Americans are letting the insane, out-of-touch, right-wing 30% of the population run this country into the ground!

If an alleged sexual predator's appointment to the SC, as well as Trump's awfulness in general, doesn't motivate Democrats and left-leaning Independents to vote this fall, I don't know what will.

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