Why isn't anyone helping?

Angry ML shouting incoming

I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
There is evidence to support widespread vote suppression is occurring by "vigilantes" knocking people off the voter registry amongst other tactics
- A third of the eligible voters didn't vote. If they had, this tiny marginal bullshit wouldn't matter.

Democrats do anything but take accountability for their mistakes any% Speedrun challenge (impossible).
Jokes aside at what point do you stop pointing the finger at everyone else and recognize that you just fucked up? Political parties aren't owed votes. They have to earn votes.
The Democrats failed to earn enough votes against Trump TWICE.
I don't even wanna hear some shit about it being a rigged election or anything. The right was screaming about 2020 being rigged for 4 years and y'all kept telling them it was ridiculous and they just need to suck it up because they lost.
The Democrats will lose again in 2028 if they do not make serious changes up and down their party.
- Jokes aside at what point do you stop pointing the finger at everyone else and recognize that you just fucked up? Political parties aren’t owed votes. They have to earn votes.
  Thanks, I love hearing that my existence has to be earned.

I’ve been voting. Doesn’t seem to work.
- It only works in aggregate. Like how a drop of water won't quench anyone's thirst, but a 20 gallon barrel generally will.
  
  This is why I hate group projects
  
  I thought the system was to dump the barrel out at the top of a hill so you can proclaim how much you're doing for the thirsty person at the bottom.
  Trickle down, but for voting too!
  Oh, and I guess that's what Trump literally did with the water in California, except they were different hills altogether.
- Have you tried the second amendment?
  
  that's that what they call every week, when a mass shooting happens, right?
- It's mitigation.
  
  Show me the part where it mitigated giving the entire government to nazis

Political parties are supposed to appeal to voters, not the other way around. Will post this again since people still don’t get it:
Directing the attention towards the voters instead of the democratic party is a deliberate tactic to create division among the working class. The democratic party has way more power than your neighbour who didn’t vote. Getting angry at your neighbour will only alienate them further. It’s a waste of energy.
- This ignores a very important thing: The Republicans get their votes by lying their asses off to their base. I have no doubt the DNC has the money to pay enough people to figure out the perfect lie to tell every single person here to get their vote, but no one here wants that. Short of lies, they'd have to go with their original strategy: big tent compromise. And that's means hard left compromising with centrists, and we all know that won't happen.
  So what's left? Abandon the middle? You'll just shift the non-voting demographic around.
  Maybe if the far left could organize its own political movement, but that would require "the left" to operate as a unified group, which just by looking at all the infighting here, is obviously never going to happen.
  So we have a left that won't compromise, a middle that isn't big enough to win an election, and a hard right party going full send on misinformation, voter suppression, etc.
  And the largest group of eligible voters...doesn't.
  Yeah, the answer here isn't "the DNC changing their shit", it's figuring out how to get people to give a shit about voting again.
- Thank you for succinctly expressing exactly how I feel about this.

making it difficult to vote is a feature not a bug.
The question isn't why are the not doing anything but why didn't they do anything when they had the chance.
- Obama had the house and senate his first term and all we got was shitty healthcare and drone bombing wedding receptions. We need a new opposition party.
  
  Oh and the Dodd-Frank act regulating Wallstreet. And saving the economy from the massive financial crash with the Recovery Act. And an act that extended how long after being fired someone can file for unemployment. And new tax legislation that had tax increases to help pay for the investment in the economy with the recovery act. And around 50 other pieces of legislation.
  Plus the "shitty health care" you mentioned mandated insurance companies have to cover people with pre-existing conditions giving insurance to tens of millions of people. And extended Medicaid to tens of millions of people providing relatively cheap medical care by comparison to before. Free? No. But many went from having bills of multiple hundreds a month to just 50. Again, perfect? No. But a massive fucking improvement.
  All that in the 2 years he had both houses. Not his entire first term. Much of it was incredibly influential even if not perfect. To say we got nothing out of it is misrepresenting both what we got and what we had before.
  Edit: and increasing the minimum wage.
  
  He had a filibuster-proof majority for a handful of weeks, and we got better healthcare than what was already on the table. While it's not great healthcare, it's still better than before.
  That included some staunchly conservative Democrats, by the by. Many of whom were ultra "pro-life", which means abortion rights weren't gonna happen.
  Additionally, people who mention drone strikes fail to a) recognize the tech was relatively new, but not so new that it was actually affordable to the DOD, and b) each president after has had more drone strikes.
  But let's not let facts get in the way of our outage or anything.

While some people don’t vote out of apathy, others are a target of indirect disenfranchisement that prevents the working poor from voting.

One of those things where both
Nonvoters who complain that Democrats aren't doing enough to protect them are exactly the kind of entitled twats who attack what meagre defenses we have against fascism, and then whine (blaming those same defenses they themselves worked to undermine) when fascism attacks them.
AND
Dems who do nothing in this period are inex-fucking-scusable, if predictably adhering to their norms-based civility politics schtick which plays so well with suburban white folk; and Dems in general are only interested in reform insofar as public opinion forces them to support it, and not an inch further.
are true.
- Everyone is constantly making excuses for the Democrats, but if a political party had zero power except for four months out of forty fucking years you'd think we'd at least try to replace them.
  
  I wrote up a big long thing and deleted it, because fuck that.
  The country doesn't want the change we want. Not even the Dem base, not when the ads start blaring and snarl words start getting tossed around. Even significantly left-leaning states like Cali and Washington regularly reject ballot initiatives for progressive measures.
  That the Dems, milquetoast and moderate as they are, and as broad a coalition as they make, had power for 4 months out of 40 years is an aberration caused only by the massive fuck-ups of the Bush administration.
  Correctly speaking, the Dems probably should've had none.

The crowd that didn't vote for Kamala have mysteriously disappeared from their soapbox and went into hiding...
- Da.
- Repeatedly banning people with different viewpoints will do that. You chose to become an echo chamber.
  
  Sorry I'm out of the loop.
  Who got banned for different viewpoints?
  
  Horseshit. They got what they wanted and then shut up about it.

The results at my last city vote was depressing. We had 20% turn out. Twenty! And we have mail-in by default here
Thankfully the people who did vote voted for the positive changes we need but it's not hard to imagine how easily 20% of the population can be easily swayed

I agree with this, but it seems to be more of a far-right nazi issue. In Germany, it was again the young, white men that turned nazi that almost won the nazis the election. Let that sink in. The nazis almost won an election in Germany. Here, we have the same issues, but with gerrymandering, voter suppression and swing state election officials cheating occasionally. It's our young white men that have a ton of energy, want to see change, and have lost their way when looking for someone to help them do that, that are our biggest threat.
Edit: I forgot to add the link to the Germany voters: https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-results-and-voter-demographics-explained-in-charts/a-71724186
- 21% of Young people voted for the AfD. They got 20,8% in total. Thats not a significant increase. The cohort of 35-49 year-olds turned out stronger for the AfD.
  The largest voting disparity is in the working class. 37% of workers voted for a party that would crush them.

Uncommitted performative boTh sIDEs grandstanding couch sitters who drank a bit too much right-wing wedge-driving vodka:

Obviously you're transphobic genocide lovers who demand corporate ownership of the meats of production.
(/s obvs)
- Good thing you added that /s or else I'd have to get my billionaire sponsors to test out their space lasers on you.

- You're suggesting people should burn down the houses of trump voters...? That's how we beat Trump?
  
  Yes.
  They knew what they voted for. They knew what the plan was. They willingly elected a dictator.
  How is that not grounds for retribution??
  They've shown they're willing to be violent. They've shown they don't care if people die as long as they get what they want.
  Why shouldn't they feel that very same fear?

How much are you getting paid by the billionaires in the dnc to simp this hard for them?
- Just enough to cover my Lemmy monthly subscription.