• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    24 hours ago

    Apathetic != uneducated. Plenty of people don’t vote because they can’t be bothered to.

    My own mother refused to register for DECADES because “I don’t want to be picked for jury duty.” Not making that up. I finally convinced her to register after pointing out jury duty also comes from drivers license records.

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      23 hours ago

      Apathetic != uneducated. Plenty of people don’t vote because they can’t be bothered to.

      sounds like they failed American civics, which makes them uneducated.

      My own mother refused to register for DECADES because “I don’t want to be picked for jury duty.”

      sounds like your mother failed civics as well.

      Not making that up. I finally convinced her to register after pointing out jury duty also comes from drivers license records.

      I bet you were frustrated. Now imagine 20 million Americans refusing to vote to stop a literal Nazi from gaining power again. I would ask how you would convince those 20 million but it doesn’t matter anymore.

      when you fail to vote, you lose.

      when we fail to vote, we all lose.

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        18 hours ago

        Yup, and the sad part is, I called it before the election. The only reason voter participation was up in 2020 was because Covid restrictions encouraged vote by mail.

        Without the vote by mail push, participation was going to drop, and because the Democrats benefited more from vote by mail, it was going to hurt them.

        Surprise, surprise, that’s exactly what happened.