Make election day a nationalized paid holiday if you really give a shit about Americans heading out to the polls.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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I think it's pretty clear they don't want that at all.
Along with them trying to make it so votes have to be counted by end of the day
In PA, they created unreasonable deadlines and then refused to allow counties to begin counting until after polls closed. It was a transparent attack on voting rights in densely populated areas.
Texas also loves to restrict number of polling places in densely populated areas
Multiple days to cover people in emergency situations. One day would probably suffice when universal vote-by-mail starting at least a month ahead is in place.
Mail-in and early voting always results in bigger turnouts. It also tends to result in more progressive votes, so that's why conservatives try to reduce or restrict it. Imagine a country where a core right is the ability to vote for representation, and yet those in office try to make it harder to do so they can stay in power.
I mean we just vote on Sundays it's a pretty simple fix.
Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Henry Cuellar, and Ed Case
Funny how the Democratic party rails against Trump but when it comes time to voting, there's always a rotating cast of Dems willing to give him enough votes to screw the people over. Probably a coincidence, right?
Surely just a coincidence that the rotating evil is a different cast of people, despite the members of congress rarely changing.
Maybe if we donate to them and make them ignore the voter base some more, this time they'll stop Trump, and we'll get to kick the football!
Primary every taint-licking centrist that supports anything they try to do.
That fucking shit bag Ed Case..
AGAIN
Girlfriend and I had an episode in the anger dome for that fucking asshole doing his fucking DINO-ass shit AGAIN.
And for no fucking reason. Maybe he can argue there are secret conservatives in Hawaii for spending, but no one gives a shit about this made-up election-integrity issue. He's just a Fox News grandpa cosplaying as a Democrat and he's probably going to keep getting elected until he dies. All while we also vote for senators that are unreliable, but at least broadly default to having decent politics. Someone with a recognizable name in politics needs to announce a primary like yesterday, just like when Tulsi was taking the mask off.
How long before we can get rid of him and Schatz?
Cool, let's just normalize women not taking their husband's name. Less paperwork all around and no voter roll issues. I'm sure that'll go over great with Republicans as a bonus.
Also normalize the children having hyphenated names.
It's very few generations before that becomes unwieldy.
Perez and Cuellar? No surprises there.
IIRC Biden and Pelosi personally intervened on Cuellars race when it looked like Cisneros, a progressive, would have a shot.
There are the Democrats the Party has fought hard to get elected.
And I wonder why they worked hard on getting conservatives and neoliberals to win instead of progressives... Fucking ponderous.
This is why people both sides.
When it comes down to voting the Democrats will always vote for fascism because they only really represent their rich doners
Donors. Unless they are funded by big kebab
Four Dems and it's "always" for you? You know that "all" isn't "four", right?
They're really pushing the "both the same" narrative extremely hard.
You're the person who wanted to "reach across the isles" in supporting flat world and transphobia on .world, saying you should platform and debate those morons. I don't think you can say anything about this.
There are communities and entire instances dedicated to shit like this. The kind that will ban you for disagreeing. That's what I was looking to prevent.
My comments aren't deleted. Their comments aren't deleted. Nobody is banned just for having that opinion. That's the difference.
Why have a party when the party never has control of their animals?
The Republicans have no issue voting in line
We know who they are.