… of responsibility for what politicians do. But that was in a time when the actual difference between the two parties was only canyon wide - instead of light years. Maybe he would reconsider today. Idk.

A long time ago. They said voter registration was how you get on the list for jury duty and they didn't want to get called for that.

I'd be happy to serve on a jury but I'm always disappointed. Almost every time I get called up there's a last minute plea bargain. The few times there was a trial I didn't get selected.

As the people who do vote, mostly for Republicans, while admitting they don’t pay attention to politics. My hairdresser is one of those people. I have told her countless times that she really shouldn’t be voting if she doesn’t understand or care what’s going on. She “just didn’t like Hillary” and “heard that Kamala’s not very smart.” So she voted for the dumb fuck at least twice. It would be hard for me to be disappointed if people like her didn’t vote.

he said if you don't vote you might just as well not be able to vote

What's wrong with pointing out how different they are from Rs in simple, preferably rude language? Why not confront that trope directly when it is presented as fact by journalists like Jake Tapper? Bottom line, if everyone including Dems just goes along with this "conventional wisdom" it will never die.

While Democratic is framed as a coalition.
While that illusion of identity still holds, the herd follows Republicans.

when I told him it's his most basic patriotic duty to stay informed and vote. I explained that "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" is a foundational definition of American democracy.

I doubt this surprises anyone, but it's just as bad when they're "political" but willfully ignorant. An acquaintance at work told me once that Biden could bring gas prices down "if he really wanted to" and that the world would be better off under a dictatorship because "things would get done." We don't speak anymore after he voiced his support for Putin taking Ukraine, but I'd love to hear what the edgy little asshole has to say about these subjects now.

Got one in my family...so irresponsible... I remind him constantly that there are things out there you better pay attention to.... bcz at some point there will b no option bcz it is in our/yourface! Frustrating

Why would she or anyone else do that. It was like a foreign concept to her. She’s in her mid sixties, relatively well educated and comes from a middle class family in Massachusetts. I honestly didn’t know what to say to her.

.....one will not bother participating.
But to not even know about elections, or worse, not even care about the outcome is just mind blowing to me.
Every aspect of our lives is governed by the outcomes in elections.

I feel sorry for your neighbor.

She’s very sweet and totally self absorbed. I don’t get it.

If she's "totally self-absorbed", she should be a bigly Trump fan!

He's the all time World Champion Narcissist!!

What a role model, eh?

it's just a "both sides" clown stung over being called out.

Looking at the posting history of " Pragmatic J" is an exercise in seeing how attacks on the actual left and class based politics take hold. Race and identity reductionist marginality politics are more of a disaster than ever for the Democratic Party and the left. "Pragmatic J" is a divider and not a uniter.

no interest in the world around them

I had someone send me a message the other day trying to reconnect after many years of having no contact. Okay... so like there had been no contact because we actually missed one another and wanted to stay in touch??? LOL

Anyway, we conversed a small bit by phone and she was asking me about my hobbies, etc. Told her I was involved politically and her response was "Oh, I don't keep up with politics. My husband does, and that's enough for me".

And wouldn't you know, just at that very moment, my doorbell rang OUT OF THE BLUE (hint! hint!!) and I had to hang up the phone and end the conversation???!!! LOL

I have no time for people whose only defense is that they refuse to see and acknowledge what is going on, yet allow all that is going on with Trump to continue without speaking out. Don't want to waste my time.

I try to help people who need assistance - transportation, errands, pick up meds, etc. They frequently have multiple health issues including mental health. I've learned that discussing current political topics is of no interest to them - survival comes first and it is hard enough already.

to what's happening in our country, and the World Around us.

It involves every aspect of our lives.. now more than ever. The air we breathe, the water we mostly don't drink now, The Produce that is grown.. do we want pesticides in our food or not?

Now, for many Americans, it is life and death threats from this mass homicidal, Fascist Regime. And, the US media****** are No Help AT All.

Mahalo, Swede, I unfortunately agree with your "World Wide Disaster" assessment.

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