2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]lapucelle
(19,701 posts)along with dozens of other volunteers. We helped voters to re-register after they had been taken off the rolls due to the expiration of key provisions in the Voting Rights Act and devised election day voting plans for working poor rural democrats for whom getting to the polls presents a genuine hardship. Working in the field isn't as easy as pontificating from an armchair, but it did give me a new appreciation of exactly how privileged I am.
As far as I'm concerned, all the spoiled and lazy who couldn't be bothered to vote because they weren't excited or energized enough to make the effort should be ashamed. And facile assumptions about why certain constituencies were underrepresented in the final tally are insulting to the newly disenfranchised who really need our help.
Republicans control the entire federal government because those who could have helped or could have voted or could have used their voice as a tool rather than a weapon chose not to. A pyrrhic victory to validate their umbrage was more important than enacting a progressive platform or exercising stewardship of the Supreme Court.
It's not on Clinton, it's not on me, and it's not on those who have a right to vote that they are prevented from exercising. The people who are responsible need to look in the mirror and face the uncomfortable truth. They let their country down.
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