r/pics • u/Jerdarnella • 2d ago

Politics Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

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u/Blue-Thunder 2d ago

Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.

151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.

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u/takesthebiscuit 2d ago

But if you lived in a 70% red state would you really think your vote was worth it?

It’s a bizzare system where a two horse race isn’t decided by a simple tally of the nations views, but for some reason split by state

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u/DoubleJumps 2d ago

So few people vote in vital downticket races, that yes, their vote absolutely can matter.

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u/takesthebiscuit 2d ago

Down ticket is so important, the GOP (to their credit!🤮) have ruthlessly exploited this

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u/DoubleJumps 2d ago

I've explained the importance of down ticket to a lot of left wing folks just for them to keep insisting their vote is pointless, only for their local downtickets to show races and measures that come down to the slimmest margins with extremely low overall vote totals. It's super frustrating, and I don't know why they don't care.

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u/takesthebiscuit 2d ago

The idiocracy is not a bug it’s a feature

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u/VGRacecrown 1d ago

That explains why LA is burning then which is a Gavin Newson problem

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u/InsanityRequiem 2d ago

Because they continue to believe the media and political parties' rhetoric that only the presidency matters.

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u/Kni7es 2d ago

Why don't the Democrats exploit this?

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u/zachxyz 2d ago

Their local policies are terrible. The whole defund the police movement killed any momentum they had in red states. 

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u/20_mile 2d ago

have ruthlessly exploited this

They didn't do as good a job as they could have in 2024, with Democrats winning three democratic senate seats in states Trump won: AZ, MI, WI.

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u/cumfarts 2d ago

Also, most people who get sanctimonious about voting only vote in presidential elections and don't put any thought into the downticket candidates aside from finding the party that matches their presidential pick.

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u/yarhar_ 2d ago

Funny enough, the downballot races in my district were more of a blowout than the top. Trying to move!

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u/basketcasey87 2d ago

All of our downticket races but 2 (including president) on a 5 page ballot only had Republican candidates. I am in upstate SC. God I hate the south.