Mods pleaseee delete

[Jion_Wansu]

Never lived in Seattle. Tacoma and UP.

[fishjie]

How is Tacoma in terms of tent cities? Are they keeping that shit in check?

[Jion_Wansu]

Starting to pop up…

[Darksakul]

Not voting is a vote. Its still taking part by saying “Fuck these candidates.”

My choice to not vote for turd burger or the old prune is me still taking part in the political process. It’s me saying neither are worthy of my vote.

Okay the whole context.
One of the factors that lead to Trump’s victory is that there a sharp decline of Democrat Voters that year and a record number of Republican voters.

Other thing is there more than just Trump and Hillary on the Ballets. You had the choice of two 3rd party candidates as well. You could of chosen a 3rd party, let them know you are unsatisfied with Republicans and Democrats. And if a 3rd party gets a total of I think 10% of the popular vote nationally, they start to receive Federal funds. The same funds the Dems and the Reps already get from the Government. It’s called Strategic voting, even if that 3rd party didn’t win the Dems and Reps realize they now got new competition and realizes they need to straighten up to get those votes.

You biggest power over a In-office Politician or a Candidate is that you are a voter. You write to your senator or representative, they pay more attention if you start your letter, your introduction with I am a voter in your state/district, if you voted for them mention that as well: they will take notice your letter more than some joe smoe. Don’t like a politician’s agenda or position, write to them as a voter and if they get enough of the same (or similar letters) they know that path is toxic to their reelection.

You want to shape a party’s platform start voting. You know whats the most underrepresented and put the least into consideration for a politician, you know why its because they don’t vote.

Why does some politicians make it harder for minorities to vote, they don’t want to represent them.
Remove them from the political process, and they aren’t represented. And it spirals from there.

Voting is how the citizens choose their own government

[Radiantsilvergun3]

Much better. I still disagree fundemantally, but that was a much better response, thank you.

[Pertho]

The 2020 Election Thread: Your Taxes Paid for This

Its come to my attention that well before I was a mod I made a thread for the 2012 election. Because of the modding situation in 2016, people seem to have misunderstood what my original intent was in creating that thread and accused me of attempting to “rewrite history” on my intentions. I have a lot more freedom to as to my moderation at this time so everybody is going to get it raw. This thread is literally meant to be a containment zone so that people don’t put political nonsense all over GD…

Here you all go. Have fun.

Closing this thread since you’re all probably going to move on the election thread anyways.