they told him they had a thing that day.
Crazy, it’s almost like we need some sort of change so that people can reliably and easily show up. Maybe we can call it election reform or something.
That, and by the time my state got around to voting, Bernie had dropped out and endorsed Biden. Do you honestly expect young voters to vote for somebody who has explicitly told them to vote for somebody else?
Young eligible voters owe what they want the bare minimum of showing up
The solution to large scale behavioral problems isn’t condescending shouting down towards people to change their behavior. It didn’t work with cigarettes, those only fell out of use to the extent that they did after reform/regulation came down. It doesn’t work with road safety, people will always speed until the road is designed to make people feel unsafe driving faster than the posted limit. It doesn’t work with crime rates, crime will continue to exist until people’s needs are met, and that includes healthcare, shelter, food, water, a job with security, the ability to retire, etc.
The solution to large scale behavioral problems is routinely structural change. This problem is no different.
The primaries need to be legally binding so that people have confidence that their vote will be respected. They need to implement voting systems that actually give all candidates a fair chance (especially not looking at you FPTP). They need to hold the primaries on a single day that everybody gets off from work, so that everybody gets a chance to vote for all of the candidates. All campaigns need to equally spend money from a shared pool to run their campaigns so no one campaign gets a monetary advantage. The list of election reforms goes on, but the point is there is a myriad of reasons why our elections are fucking dog shit, which results in a lack of confidence, which further results in a lack of turnout.
Yelling at people to change their behavior will never work.
first thing I’m gonna ask anyone who asks me for help is if they voted, and if they say no and don’t have a good reason for it, I’ll shoot them in the face for condemning me and everyone like me
And what does it take to meet this totally not arbitrary “good reason” in order to not have violence inflicted upon somebody?
Does living in a guaranteed blue state do the trick? What about being brainwashed by your family/media? Quit being so trigger happy, it won’t do anybody any good.
