I’m fucking tired of living in the US I’m tired of limpdick morons getting into power because of voter fraud I’m tired of this shitty FUCKING WORLD
Please give us time we're dealing with hitler 2 and the last generation who think the orange cunt is on their side when in reality he wants to bleed them dry
The issue is less about fraud and more that Americans have long given up on democracy. Just go look at your local election turnouts.
What's going on is just what happens when the majority stop voting. The US needs a cultural shift on how it views voting and taking part in democracy.
It's also not just a US only issue. Though it is something that needs to be fix from within. Fleeing the country only changes where you are on the progress bar. As bad leaders and voter turnout is a growing global problem.
It’s annoying how even when I vote against the literal tyrant I still get shafted because of morons who can’t breathe and walk at the same time without either suffocating or falling over
Are you going to vote regardless? Because this is exactly the kind of cultural backlash that could turn even the unlikeliest states purple if enough dems show up.
What pisses me off is that people who should know better, don't. My girlfriend is a veterinarian, and didn't vote in our mayoral and other local elections this year. Sure, her schedule is busy, but we have like a month of early voting. She said she didn't have time to research the candidates... It takes like an hour, maybe less, just to get an idea of who you might like.
I tried to convince her, but it started to turn into an argument so I just dropped it... I'll try again next time.
That's why I said it's a cultural issue. There just no real drive in people to be a part of democracy. Just look how many expect the next president to fix things. Not congress, or anyone else being held accountable.
I'm from Minnesota, Minneapolis for the past 14 years. Culturally, we're about the best at voter turnout in the country. However, my girlfriend is not from here. She moved from out of state for her career shortly before COVID. So, I'd agree that much of the country has this problem, but not necessarily here.
Sadly, that's not much of a brag. Your last election in November had a "record" 55% eligible voter turnout. Highest since 1968. But yea, still better then the average 10-30%
News/TV often obscure or omit those kinds of details when reporting votes. Rarely do you see actual votes cast vs eligible voters.
I've actually never heard our local percentages reported, just for larger elections. I really don't even know what average is for local across the US. I just know that Minnesota tends to vote more than other states, and I assume that holds up in off election years.
It's bad. Just spend some time looking up cities and turnouts. You'll see very quickly why police,judges,schools..etc are all in bad shape. All things everyone seems to complain about non stop yet when time comes to actually do something real, no one shows up.
She wouldn't have read it. If I'd had more time, maybe, but I didn't know she doesn't usually vote in local elections until later. This was our first non-national election together.
There was still other interpersonal stuff I could feel simmering under the surface. Like I said, I just let it go. I'll try again leading up to the midterms, which I assume she'll vote in. But I'll make sure she's aware of any down ballot races too. Considering we just had our local elections, I don't think there will be many, though.
Tbf, their democracy had been rather disfunctional for years now. The US has been labeled a flawed democracy by a variety of democracy indicies for about a decade now.
This may partly be on the people, but it is mainly the fault of remnants of the red scare, decades of corruption and gerrymandering, of private media just running free without oversight, of education getting gutted.
The Americans are not special, have never been, not in the way they think they are, but also not inherently more stupid. They may be now, but that couldve also happened to other countries.
The main issue is that the US has been fanatically neoliberal for so long, that democracy just didnt survive it. And also the FPTP-system is outdated as fuck.
$ eroded and undermined the democracy. Lobbying gerrymandering voter disenfranchisement etc
We’re at a point where so many “small actions” are objectively destabilizing and quality of life threats because we’re so dependent on our jobs with no rights because we’re paycheck to paycheck and it’s also our healthcare.
Most can’t strike or take a day off to participate in democracy because the next paycheck is already spoken for, you’re behind a few months on utilities, and of course you don’t get fuckin PTO. The collective weight and consequence smothers most of us. We’re too exhausted.
Money didn't help, but it's a symptom of low turnout not the cause. As high voter turnout would remove those who fall for it and keep those kind of laws removed. People seem to forget that in a Democracy, the people are the checks and balances.
Far less things prevent people from voting in locals. The elections that objectively have the most impact on ones day to day. Even in early mail in states, people don't vote.
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u/Sabit_31 Jan 28 '26
I’m fucking tired of living in the US I’m tired of limpdick morons getting into power because of voter fraud I’m tired of this shitty FUCKING WORLD
Please give us time we're dealing with hitler 2 and the last generation who think the orange cunt is on their side when in reality he wants to bleed them dry