To keep voting blue/red no matter is how you create the very situation we are in. Punishing politicians is how you get them to work for you and not for themselves and pacs.
Young voters not voting in primaries is how we got into this situation.
You want politicians who represent you? Gotta vote in primaries! But the elderly, who are a smaller slice of the population, absolutely shit kick the youth in terms of voting in primaries.
Want change? Gotta vote even when it’s not trending on social media.
Whew! Good thing you’ve got an excuse for everything, otherwise you might actually have to do something other than play-act at being a radical on social media.
The primaries being controlled by party leadership is not an “excuse” to not participate in them, it’s just clarifying that that isn’t a sufficient approach.
If the most vocal young voters had actually shown up for Sanders, who as far as I can tell, offered pretty much everything progressives could realistically ask for, well, we’d be in a very different position.
But, elderly people outvoted the youth ans went centrist Clinton.
The party pulled plenty of shenanigans to stop Sanders from getting the nomination. The US has overthrown governments for less. They aren’t accountable processes.
Can you acknowledge that this hypothetical problem has never come up as progressive candidates have never won the majority of votes? (Because, yup, the progressive youth vote doesn’t show up.)
To keep voting blue/red no matter is how you create the very situation we are in. Punishing politicians is how you get them to work for you and not for themselves and pacs.
Young voters not voting in primaries is how we got into this situation.
You want politicians who represent you? Gotta vote in primaries! But the elderly, who are a smaller slice of the population, absolutely shit kick the youth in terms of voting in primaries.
Want change? Gotta vote even when it’s not trending on social media.
Party leadership has control over primaries and don’t have any legal responsibility to have them be fair or even have them at all.
Whew! Good thing you’ve got an excuse for everything, otherwise you might actually have to do something other than play-act at being a radical on social media.
The primaries being controlled by party leadership is not an “excuse” to not participate in them, it’s just clarifying that that isn’t a sufficient approach.
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But whining is so much easier! You don’t even have to leave the toilet! /s
If you don’t vote in them it doesn’t matter.
If the most vocal young voters had actually shown up for Sanders, who as far as I can tell, offered pretty much everything progressives could realistically ask for, well, we’d be in a very different position.
But, elderly people outvoted the youth ans went centrist Clinton.
Edit: a word
If you do vote in them it may not matter.
The party pulled plenty of shenanigans to stop Sanders from getting the nomination. The US has overthrown governments for less. They aren’t accountable processes.
And at the end of the day, young progressive voters didn’t show up.
Before whining that everything is rigged, maybe show up in the numbers required to win?
Do you acknowledge that the primary processes are not legally required to be fair? Yes or no.
Sure, there’s no legal requirement.
Can you acknowledge that this hypothetical problem has never come up as progressive candidates have never won the majority of votes? (Because, yup, the progressive youth vote doesn’t show up.)
Yes or no.