• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Generally, the more people vote, the more republicans lose. “Get out the vote” is an anti-republican message in effect, which republicans know and it’s why they try to stop people from voting.

      Instead of, you know, being electable.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        The Dems have a similar thing going on. It’s not “vote for me because I’m a great option”, it is “vote for me or democracy dies!”. If I only ever had one choice, then democracy is already dead.

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            4 hours ago

            Which, again, in a sane world, is really just one choice. This, quite frankly, is the only real bullet in the “both sides are the same” argument.

            I’m not saying Harris isn’t qualified; she clearly is.

            What I’m saying is that the Republicans have had years of making their base into good little soldiers that will vote R simply because they aren’t D.

            These mouth breathers only see the letter after the name. I can’t tell you the number of times that voters came up to me when I was a poll worker and ask me who the “Republicans” were in a local election where the candidates can’t have party affiliations.

            Why yes, these were often elderly voters. What made you guess that?