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goobster  ·  1288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Republican senator says ‘democracy isn’t the objective’ of US system

    "Saying "fuck the south" altogether is also saying "fuck all the people who are constantly stifled and made invisible by the dirty, racist, plague-ridden, parasite-infested, cousin-raping idiots in power"...

... who haven't cared enough to change things... like people did in Oregon, or Colorado, or Texas, or anywhere else where people have risen up against The Stupid and made it known that they reject and do not support The Assholes, and have changed things for the better of everyone.

For example, I, as a Seattleite, can only give so much to the campaign to unseat Mitch McConnell.

But people who live there can actually VOTE him out.

You, the "blue South", have ALWAYS had this ability, and chosen not to use it.

In this election, the median age of an American is 37. For possibly the first time in living memory, there are more people under 40 than there are over.

If even 1/4 of them showed up on November 7th, everything would change. But they don't. And they won't.

So yes... gerrymandering is one hurdle amongst many. But, honestly, "fuck the blue south" for not getting off their asses and doing something about it, and passively accepting the status quo and allowing themselves to be utterly dominated by the conservative minority, when they have ALWAYS had the power to change everything, just by showing up on one day (Nov 4th) out of 1460 days in a 4-year term.