• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lauren Boebert, the hated representative from Colorado won reelection by just a few hundred votes. This in a state that has mail-in ballots.

    A few hundred more people had to vote and we never would have heard from that nutcase again, and yet people couldn’t be motivated enough to do it. They wouldn’t even have had to drive anywhere to do it. Literally a few seconds of their time and she would have been gone. Nope. People were just too goddamn lazy to do it. And yet those same people would be the first to complain about her winning.

    The vast majority of our problems in the US are homegrown and are a result of apathy and laziness. We live in a participatory democracy and that system only works when people actually participate in the process.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it had to do with laziness in most cases. It’s simply become a “damned if I do, damned if I don’t” situation. Voter apathy is huge.

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        1 year ago

        I do agree with this - I think it is a mix of apathy, laziness and ignorance. These people see a Democrat in the White House and then complain why the Dems don;t solve all their problems. We don’t live in a dictatorship. These people don’t understand that the President can’t just decree that something gets done. We need a buy-in from Congress to fund things and within Congress, we will always need to have some level of cooperation between the parties to get stuff done. That’s where twats like Boebert are so dangerous because she, along with most Republicans, will stop at nothing to halt any Democratic agenda from progressing. But average Joes don’t understand that and our useless mass media doesn’t really report on it.