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Let's make this the best #caturday ever!

💯 agree. My first choice candidates often do not survive the primary. Do I sit it out - I do not! In the general, I door knock / postcard / volunteer as much as possible and vote for the best choice. Democrats Please Vote ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

Never sit it out. Primaries should be dynamic and even annoyingly combative. That's fine. Politics can be about fighting. Once the Primaries are over, then we fight the GOP with everything we have. I once voted in NYC with 11% turnout and helped prevent Giuliani from getting a 3rd term.

Those aren't voting no matter what. It's just their excuse.

But the fraud felon isn't on the ballot. Nor will any vote make him leave. I fear people are letting polls blind them to boots-on-the-ground reality. The GOP became a cult, not a political party. Cults rely on vilifying reality to sustain power, not just over adherents but to make others skeptical.

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Great stuff!👍 I’m British, so I have no experience of the American voting-system as such, but - a vote can be for a direction of travel and not necessarily for a destination.

Primaries are where you vote for the best candidate. General elections are where you vote AGAINST the worst candidate.

Also, spend time, once they're in office, mailing them and telling them in person what things they need to do to make things better.

Politics is and has always been a pragmatic endeavor. The smart people hold their noses and vote for the candidate who they know will harm THEM the least. We are experiencing a time when too many voters focus on electing the candidate they believe will hurt others more.

Those with enough power and privilege that they don't need to vote for their own survival sure as hell aren't going to vote on behalf of those who do, especially on the red side of the spectrum.

Can't people just IGNORE those guys and walk in to vote? Just move along with your life. They are nothing more than wallpaper.

I fear we'll be disappointed in midterm results because we think the felon's poor approval translates to R rejection. He has spent YEARS projecting fake "Biden crime family" etc just so the visceral reaction to his crimes is, "They all do it." Starr & Rove mastered the D vilification for same reason

Those lefties splitting hairs and whining and threatening to sit out need to be taken up sharply.

I saw a video that compared voting to public transportation: Choose the candidate who will get you the closest to your desired “destination”…. A candidate may not tick ALL your boxes but, most likely, they will get you closer to your vision of America . Vote. 🗳️ We need you.

If you are voting by mail and have access to secure drop boxes in your municipality, use them to drop off your completed ballot and avoid the post office. Complete your ballot and drop it off at your nearest secure drop box this weekend.

They did that two years ago. How's that working out for them?

Folks who talk like that need to grow the fuck up.

That is precisely how we wound up with Trump AGAIN!

Agreed. Dropped off my ballot to a dropbox at City Hall only a couple days after I received the ballot. Vote early it will only get more chaotic.

Think like those w/ parliamentary systems like the UK, where they don't directly elect their prime minister.

That's precisely how we got into the jam we're in at this moment. BTW..my dear cousin voted as a single issue voter and she's heartbroken that she didn't widen her horizons at that time. Lesson learned the hard way.

Vote to put PooTins Puppet in check bsky.app/profile/stop...

Purity tests are luxuries. It virtually guarantees that the choice those people make lead to abstention. The people we vote for are representatives. Yet to meet a perfect one of those anywhere.

What a (white) privilege is must be to be so haughty, and self-serving.

He is always welcome in Milwaukee/Wisco.

I vote for the person who will lift the most boats possible. Never has been all boats yet…

You would hope after 2024, people would have learned this lesson. Sitting out because a candidate doesn’t believe/do everything you want is crazy. Which party comes through for ALL Americans; it sure isn’t the MAGA party.

Primaries are to choose your candidate, generals are to choose your party.

Voting for perfection is giving your opponent an escape route.

We must declare it a national holiday and yes we all should get dressed up

No, it was Doc Rivers who talked abt his mother. Webb posted the clip.

I encountered a self-declared RINO before the general election who said they were going to 'sit it out'. I asked why not *vote against* the guy they couldn't support and got a blank look like, 'me? vote for a black woman?'. When someone shows you who they are...

The Democratic Party is far from perfection, but it's a start. We'll be better able to eliminate the traitors within our *own* ranks, once we regain a foothold. An overall accounting is coming for EVERYONE.

trump has to pay for his criminality like anyone else and if We all don't vote, he/they will continue to committ crimes against humanity.

We used to vote as a family when we were all registered at the same place. Go vote together, then dinner and arguing about it. Mom has never revealed who she votes for, "That's my business." "Anyone who voted for George Bush is a giant pussy."--Dad. We knew where he stood.

How everyone should vote.

This is inspiring. I’m going to dress up when I go vote, too, in honor of his mom.

This is why we vote. If it didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to stop us www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020...

As my elders get older, I always think of what they had to endure. Every time I vote I do so out of respect for THEM.