• TwoGems@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ok so it starts with you. Volunteer with your local voting rights groups and get people registered to vote. Work their social media teams. Go to high schools and go register those turning 18. Voting rights groups are well known for this useful work.

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      1 year ago

      I really appreciate your call to do something. I personally don’t think we can vote our way out of this, but we all need to do something. Anything. Whatever we can and feel called to do. This isn’t the dress rehearsal.

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        1 year ago

        Well, maybe. If everyone hadn’t voted though in the last midterms etc. or even the most recent races, we’d be doing a lot worse now.

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      1 year ago

      From what I can tell, many of the people who are bailing on Biden are the very activists who have been staffing volunteer efforts in past years.

      They’ve grown disenchanted from doing so much work just to prop up the DNC pick without making any progress on the initiatives they care about.

      I think that’s what Biden’s crisis is all about. His focus on ‘moderates’ has alienated the activists in the party.