• HereticalDoughnut@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Congratulations on coming away with the most ignorant apathetic take possible. So many issues, especially at a local level, are decided by a small number of geriatric voters with nothing better to do and little to no skin in the game as they’re likely to pass before the effects of their vote even matter.

    If you want to move the needle and encourage more progressives candidates and policy then you need to prove statistically that you and people like you will show up at polls, especially primaries and local election. No one is going to run on likelihood that so far unrealized voters will materialize at polls.

    • thekbob@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      It is very difficult to overcome decades of propaganda that deemed any leftist ideology as evil.

      The best move to create movements at the local level, but with the national Overton Window continuously sliding to the right, that also murders left wing discussions on the local level.

      It’s hard not to be apathetic in a nation that thinks housing and health care are luxuries or that LGTBQ+ people existing is a crime.