Ricki Yasha TarrAug 3, 2024

"I live in a red state my vote doesn't ma-"

If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to make it harder to vote in red states. Voting in red states can turn them into swing states like Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona. And voting in blue states can keep them from becoming swing states.

California used to be Red. Texas was Blue long ago. Florida was once a swing state. Obama took Indiana but it's gone redder since. Ten years ago Arizona and Georgia going blue was unthinkable.

Things change and we can make them change.

And that's before getting into more local elections. Turning cities blue, the state legislature.

Red states have flipped blue in recent years at those levels too.

Because people vote, and if we vote in high enough numbers we can turn a tight election into a walk in the park. If we vote in high enough numbers, we can turn a loss into a win. So many good things have happened in states where someone won by like 100 votes. (arizona is one)

-sniperct

Show threadSherBeareth
@RickiTarr And may I add, as a resident of the Blue Privilege of Vermont, that it’s not okay to think your liberal pals are fired up and thus your vote is optional. Or worse. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard a leftie say that and I speak up when I can. People of bright Blue states, don’t assume your community is going to vote for you so that the election is guaranteed a win.
Aug 3, 2024 at 2:00amWeb
Show threadsollatAug 3, 2024
@SherBeareth @RickiTarr
Plus: even if it’s very likely, know that skullduggery and legal challenge are also very likely. It’s your vote. Use it.
Show threadSherBearethAug 3, 2024

@sollat @RickiTarr

Pre-cisely. And I think women need to recall how damned difficult and dangerous it was for suffragettes to get the vote. There were pamphlets being secretly passed in Victorian drawing rooms, leading to wives finding excuses to socialize apart some evenings. But don’t get me started, the Black community was also denied the vote for decade after decade of having no voice and no choice.

Use your vote is good advice because we don’t want the #weirdness.