I don’t want to assume anything but are you able to afford your ID? Because a staggering number of Americans can’t afford to get a drivers licence or passport which are now required to vote in some areas. There is a lot of privilege involved in being able to just go vote. - ThreadSky

justinandhisjam.bsky.social • 63 days ago

I don’t want to assume anything but are you able to afford your ID?

Because a staggering number of Americans can’t afford to get a drivers licence or passport which are now required to vote in some areas.

There is a lot of privilege involved in being able to just go vote.

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celesteweforget.bsky.social•62 days ago

Not to mention not being able to get off work to vote, or having a polling place that's difficult to get to without a car. The system is designed to disenfranchise poor people.

coldgoldzero.bsky.social•62 days ago

I understand that, we are still talking about 90 million people, all that is needed is a fraction of that to vote to swing things. I don't think that is too big of an ask but idk I guess 90 million people registered to vote can't/won't vote because no car or whatever.

dustbinfilm.bsky.social•62 days ago

are you really young? one of the things you need to realize before you get too old is that no one has your exact same circumstances. it's easy for you to vote? great! it's not easy or even possible for everyone else. read up on gerrymandering, jim crow, poll taxes, etc. *or whatever*

coldgoldzero.bsky.social•62 days ago

Also if you want to come in acting like an authority maybe don't start your post by trying to invalidate my point because of my age that you know nothing about

coldgoldzero.bsky.social•62 days ago

Are you really young? How are you guys not grasping the fact that statistically 90 million registered voters who didn't vote is not all homeless people who are stuck somewhere with no ride. Like seriously, why are you being this obtuse?

spaceweft.bsky.social•62 days ago

Everyone who has responded to you has done so gently. No one is saying "all 90mil non-voters are homeless without a ride to the polls" but they are saying "voter suppression is a significant factor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States

coldgoldzero.bsky.social•62 days ago

Holy shit you are dense, at no point did I state it wasn't a factor.

celesteweforget.bsky.social•62 days ago

Eligible voters doesn't distinguish between those who registered and those who didn't, either. Only about 2/3 of the voting age population are registered.

I get what you're saying, but moralizing to non-voters doesn't really make sense when the neoliberal political order is designed to harm them.

celesteweforget.bsky.social•62 days ago

And, yeah, obviously Trump is orders of magnitude worse than Harris. But non-voters weren't exactly motivated by the messaging of "the Democrats are Republican Lite" and I think that's understandable.

I don't blame the voters, I blame political machine

justinandhisjam.bsky.social•62 days ago

Exactly this!!

coldgoldzero.bsky.social•62 days ago

And how do we change the machine? ..... Getting... non-voters....to ... vote. The system is too rigged to rely on it anymore, everything is gerrymandered to hell and most states votes mean next to nothing when the election comes around. They only care about the battleground states

celesteweforget.bsky.social•62 days ago

Electoral politics does little to progress society. We all saw happened under Biden: people turned out in record numbers and Democrats had control over everything and *nothing meaningful changed*.

Trying to stop a runaway train by shoveling more coal is an interesting strategy.

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