@earl-of-trumps saidShouldn't people be encouraged to vote?
@Kevin-Eleven - said
"I wonder how many people who otherwise wouldn't even bother to vote are being "helped" to vote by this or that party."
Uh huh.
I can tell you in my state, big-wig Dems are going to the low income (welfare) developments to urge people to vote.
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@earl-of-trumps saidI get your sarcasm, Earl. I was trying to be even-handed to avoid causing a ruckus. 😉
@Kevin-Eleven - said
"I wonder how many people who otherwise wouldn't even bother to vote are being "helped" to vote by this or that party."
Uh huh.
I can tell you in my state, big-wig Dems are going to the low income (welfare) developments to urge people to vote.
But what would the GOP's pitch be? "Keep us in office and your life will be so much better at the bottom of OUR pyramids." 😉
Either way those welfare people would be voting (or not) for college-educated people in suits who have absolutely nothing in common with them, no matter what heroic poor-roots sob-stories they trot out on the campaign trail, and whose work generally involves talking, writing, sitting around at meetings, and manipulating other people, as opposed to actually making or maintaining things themselves.
@no1marauder saidMaybe we should all be discouraged from voting, and the ones who vote anyway will be the True Americans.
Shouldn't people be encouraged to vote?
@no1marauder saidNO...only legal citizens should be encouraged to vote,
Shouldn't people be encouraged to vote?
@mott-the-hoople saidDon't be so literal; obviously I didn't mean those ineligible to vote (like children) should be encouraged to vote.
NO...only legal citizens should be encouraged to vote,
@no1marauder saidThe only obvious thing is the progressive incessant push of liberals to drastically change America.
Don't be so literal; obviously I didn't mean those ineligible to vote (like children) should be encouraged to vote.
Does this not give you pause? Oh, wait, you are one of them.
@averagejoe1 saidThe US is a country of change, the only question is whether it will be for the better or not.
The only obvious thing is the progressive incessant push of liberals to drastically change America.
Does this not give you pause? Oh, wait, you are one of them.
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@averagejoe1 saidThis has nothing to do with being Liberal; it has to do with reality: the demographics are changing. Politics should change when the demographics change, by democratic means. Republicans in America right now are in denial about reality. They are trying to forestall an avalanche after it has already started down the hill.
The only obvious thing is the progressive incessant push of liberals to drastically change America.
Does this not give you pause? Oh, wait, you are one of them.
"In all 50 states, the share of non-Hispanic White eligible voters [EDIT: that 's you Joe] declined between 2000 and 2018, with 10 states experiencing double-digit drops in the share of White eligible voters. During that same period, Hispanic voters have come to make up increasingly larger shares of the electorate in every state. These gains are particularly large in the Southwestern U.S., where states like Nevada, California and Texas have seen rapid growth in the Hispanic share of the electorate over an 18-year period.
These trends are also particularly notable in battleground states – such as Florida and Arizona – that are likely to be crucial in deciding the 2020 election.2 In Florida, two-in-ten eligible voters in 2018 were Hispanic, nearly double the share in 2000. And in the emerging battleground state of Arizona, Hispanic adults made up about one-quarter (24% ) of all eligible voters in 2018, up 8 percentage points since 2000." Quoted from:
https://www.pewresearch.org/2020/09/23/the-changing-racial-and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate/
If you don't like it, you're entitled to leave. No one is holding you back.
Trying to make it harder for people to vote is unAmerican, against the Constitution, and not nice. Not nice at all.
@earl-of-trumps saidMy pleasure. The Donald evidently thinks he lost the election because a few thousand people copped their neighbours' ballots or combed graveyards looking for dead people with same-names and faked the signatures. It doesn't work like that.
@moonbus
Thanks, bub
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@kevin-eleven saidIt wasn't sarcasm, Kev, and I'm not trying to muck rake. it's the truth.
I get your sarcasm, Earl. I was trying to be even-handed to avoid causing a ruckus. 😉
But what would the GOP's pitch be? "Keep us in office and your life will be so much better at the bottom of OUR pyramids." 😉
Either way those welfare people would be voting (or not) for college-educated people in suits who have absolutely nothing in common with them, no matter ...[text shortened]... ings, and manipulating other people, as opposed to actually making or maintaining things themselves.
And if the GOP has such plans to get people to vote, so be it. I think in general the supporters of
the GOP are not on welfare. My opinion.
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@Very-Musty
Are you an assshole by training or do you come by it naturally?
If the only issue was voter ID there would be no problem but you ignore the rest of the suppression issues which you no doubt deny happens.
Like making it illegal to even give a person in line a bottle of water, or reducing the number of polling places or stopping the vote after church bit and a number of other dystopian BULLSHYTE designed SPECIFICALLY to reduce democrat votes which BTW they admitted IN COURT that was the only way they can win, they have to have that suppression law so they can win by stopping eligibility of voters AND YOU KNOW THAT FULL WELL YOU ASSSININE HYPOCRITE.