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Donald Trump's chances of winning election slump after RNC speech
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If voting were sufficient then we wouldn't be in this mess.
So yes, do vote, but you have to do more than that, too.
If your vote didn't matter, try wouldn't be trying to make it harder (or blocking efforts to make it easier).
VOTE
Please do explain how the necessity of further action "makes it harder to vote".
If people are so pathologically demand-avoidant that asking them to do more than just vote makes them stop voting then yelling at them to vote isn't going to help either.
I think they are talking about Republican efforts to limit voting access, not that doing more than voting makes it harder.
I've come to really like the saying "voting is the least effective form of civic engagement"
This isn't true ime
Which part?
The fact that most people aren't pathologically demand avoidant?
The part where you imply that asking someone to vote and asking them to do much more are equivalent
Of course they aren't, and I've got no idea how you managed to take that from my post. XD
Maybe the part where you said that if asking them to do more than vote won't work, then asking them to vote won't work either?
Please point out where I said anything like that. XD
I'm too lazy man just read your own comment it was like 3 sentences
Yeah, which is wild that you managed to take something completely different from it than what I wrote.
No, I didn't.
I've basically given up worrying about federal politics; I STILL VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS, but it's clear they're too solidly captured by special interests to do much there. I've shifted my focus to local/municipal politics and found a lot more success there.
Correct opinion.