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Showing Original Post only (View all)Where Are These Young Voters' Aunties? [View all]
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/11/2234605/-Where-Are-These-Young-Voters-AuntiesWhere Are These Young Voters' Aunties?
Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 8:49:51a EDT
BlackGrannyRising
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Oh, and youre just not into President Biden? Good Lord, are you marrying the guy?!!?
So allow me to be a surrogate Auntie right here. You cannot allow your feelings to cloud your logic in this most important election. The future of our Democracy is at stake and the choice is as stark as it gets. Democracy vs fascism. Reproductive rights vs forced birthing and not being able to exercise our rights to make health decisions for ourselves. Working families- friendly policies vs policies that favor the 1%. The death and chaos of the first trump administration vs the professionalism and concrete accomplishments of the first Biden administration. Lets help President Biden finish the job.
I could go on, but young people (and truth be told, some of yall older ones too), please dont make the mistake of letting your idealism override your common sense. Your vote counts! And if you want a chance to make YOUR vision of the world you want to see a reality, a non-vote or a vote for trump and the rethuglicans will cause that vision to not be realized.
Finally, to Black young people talking this nonsense: I have the last original poll tax receipt from 1965 that my late Mother had to pay just in order to vote. That was the LAW-just 60 short years ago. Fannie Lou Hamer, who was beaten almost to death just for registering Mississippians to vote, was my Moms contemporary. How DARE yall even contemplate not voting!! Or even THINK about voting for that orange menace who called our ancestors countries shithole countries? What the HELL are yall thinking!!?
Whew! Id better end this now, because I feel an even worse rant coming on!! Just vote. When we vote, we win.
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Most of the responses up until I posted were about the "feelings" or "reasons" this generation uses to
Probatim
Apr 12
#13
If intellect was the deciding factor, we wouldn't have had TSF as president - let alone running for a second term.
Probatim
Apr 12
#23
If the election is close (and it almost certainly will be) ANYTHING can derail us
Silent3
Apr 12
#18
I personally know some of them. They are for real. Tik Tok is non-stop "Genocide Joe." n/t
Coventina
Apr 12
#11
I'd call myself a "guncle" if I had nieces and nephews, but I don't. Nevertheless...
Otterdaemmerung
Apr 12
#20