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many people don't vote because they feel it doesn't make a difference This is actually the case in many areas. For example, casting a vote for a Republican Pre
by downandout 8y ago
many people don't vote because they feel it doesn't make a difference
This is actually the case in many areas. For example, casting a vote for a Republican Presidential candidate in California is a pointless endeavor. This sentiment doesn’t arise from lack of voter education, but rather from voter education - people understand the political makeup of the areas in which they live, and in those that are overwhelmingly partisan, can correctly conclude that their vote won’t make a difference.
- rootusrootus 8y agoThat's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kinda like millenials complaining about boomers voting for things they don't like, while simultaneously not turning out to vote even though as a group they outnumber the boomers and could actually effect change if they bothered to show up.
- downandout 8y agoThis effect could easily be counteracted by paying attention to polls and voter registration numbers. If you're in a competitive area, sure, go ahead and vote. But if the numbers are clearly lopsided, as they are in places like California and New York, Republicans are free to vote, their vote just won't do anything except waste their time.
- rootusrootus 8y agoThe reverse is true in places like Texas, but Beto came respectably close to winning.
- hcg 8y agoExcept millions more people showed up to vote against Trump, against the republicans, and they got no power to show for it. Voting matters, but the US system is fundamentally broken. That's what happens when you have a system that was designed from the start to work only for a small ruling class of white landowners.