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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe sound is down on my tv, but I am watching the graphics. I am sick to death
of the false narrative Trump is deploying that the groundswell of opposition does not represent "most voters". Let me tell you something, perhaps is didn't- this one time. Then again, just enough legitimate and otherwise-eligible voters were purged from the rolls in the longstanding Republican war on voters.
I guarantee you I will be re-doubling my efforts to register voters, ongoing. We *have to. They are constantly purging, and otherwise attacking the franchise. We must get the message out, but that's not enough if we aren't registering people.
In my state you can register online, so I will be posting that link on my social media accounts regularly, and I will also be inviting people who want to do it in person to do so at the Voter Registration office. I also have the forms here at home, and if need be, I will go to them to do it in person.
Please, please, do more than lip service this cycle! Do these very things I mentioned in your own communities!!! It is vital, especially while people are angry. The old saying is "make hay while the sun is shining".
riversedge
(70,084 posts)register folks.
joet67
(624 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)There are paid protesters. It's interesting that's the first place they want to go. Gives a lot of credibility to the claims that the Tea Party was an 'astroturf movement'.
There are big crowds of pissed off people. People who might otherwise just share recipes on FaceBook will begin to ask "What's all the fuss about".
The difficult thing is keeping people engaged for a long period of time.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Challenge that Stupid Spice.
Orrex
(63,172 posts)It's an artificial, well-funded astroturf campaign, rather than the noble, organic and natural Teaparty movement.
I've heard this same thing about two dozen times, farted out of two dozen different Republican face-assholes. And because they say it, their enthralled cultist believe it and repeat it until it becomes true for them.