Voting in the US
If you are entitled to, please vote. Politicians will not do anything to help you if you don't vote.
Before the election, get a sample ballot for your local area and research everyone on it, even if you think you already know about them.
If you can't be at the polls on election day, you can probably vote early or get a postal ballot. Additionally, if you expect difficulty with transportation, many community groups will take people to the polls for free.
re: Voting in the US
re: Voting in the US
@fluffy Voting is the bare minimum effort in which people influence the state. There's lots of other things that can and should be done as well. @alexbuzzbee
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re: Voting in the US
@fluffy I respectfully disagree. If what you're saying is true the US would have already invaded Syria and Iran by now. @alexbuzzbee
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@fluffy @terryenglish Do you think the US had any chance of losing a war with Iran or Syria? If not, how did we avoid those wars?
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re: Voting in the US
@fluffy @terryenglish If the wars weren't prevented by 1) probability of loss or 2) activism... what did prevent them?
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re: Voting in the US
@fluffy @terryenglish So then why did the US need to "bait" Iran at all? If public outrage doesn't mean anything, why not just go to war?
re: Voting in the US
re: Voting in the US
@fluffy @terryenglish I think one of several influences was that "just going to war" was politically unpopular and thus would have hurt the decision-makers' chances at winning reelection. That's not the only factor, but it's consistent with historical patterns and with the evidence I've seen.
@fluffy @alexbuzzbee @terryenglish PREDICTION: the one with whom you question will shift the goal posts in his next reply.
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re: Voting in the US
I will remind you that we have been at war for nearly twenty years. This despite how every president since clinton was elected on an antiwar platform.