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Originally Posted by Matty Lice
Remember back in the day when people like Fly were screaming at me for suggesting fighting dirty wasnt the answer? Good times. People like Ocasio-Cortez running for office and getting voters to vote is how we win, not fighting dirty.
this is a really, really bad take.
the conditions and system in which we are voting matter too. they matter quite a lot actually.
everyone already agrees we should be turning out voters as much as possible. that's only one part of the equation, not the whole game. as an obvious example, running up the score in california didn't make one iota of difference for hillary because of the system.
republicans keep pushing and pushing on norms in order to tilt the system in their favor. gerrymandering, removing voting rights, etc. and democrats like you respond by saying well gee golly guess we'll just have to win by 5% more than them to win this time... and then gee golly guess we'll just need to win by 8% to win this time... gee golly guess we'll just need to win by 12% to win this time.
you can work to get out the vote and also fight back to level the playing field at the same time.
Last edited by JoltinJake; 06-27-2018 at 02:54 AM.