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In reply to the discussion: Chafee and Webb announced. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Look, you are now backtracking because putting words into my mouth has not worked,
But going to the original stance, no voting is not going to make a tinkers damn of difference. Not one bit.
There is so much you need to do beyond voting. As to the expense of others, exactly how? By listening to people who consistently tell me they are fed up? They are fed up that their concerns don't matter to those in power? To be super local for a moment, that my city is willing to spend a quarter of a million dollars to try to keep the chargers, when they have a billion plus hole in infrastructure repairs?
That the police denies there is any racial profiling even when their own stop data reveals that?
Or that a whole generation of youth is getting prosecuted for being young and black? Those are real issues, and this is why people are going why bother?
If all you are getting out of this is don't vote, you are not understanding what you are being told. Once again, what you are being told is that partisan politics is not the solution, you need to do FAR MORE THAN JUST GO TEAM and JUST VOTING.
But no, at this point at this point I really do not care for that. I used to... but then, as the joke goes, I opened my eyes.