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In reply to the discussion: Why are people not marching in the streets? [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)My point is that the Democrats in those States have the only power and the only right to make changes to their own system. They have other, better run States to pattern after. Why don't they just do so? I mean, we watch Florida now for 13 years, each election they have it is like no one ever ran an election anywhere and they are just figuring it out on the fly. They say 200,000 people were kept from voting there. Why did that happen? Other States do not have those issue, do not expect the people in other States to do the work for them. Do you expect us to fly out there and drive them to the polls as well?
Election reform should be the resounding message of Democrats in those States. There is no excuse for it not to be.
Again, people seem to think that outside others are going to cure their State's problems when they have to do it themselves. They could. Other States have. They should. But what do they do? They freak out because the opposition is opposed to us. Of course Republicans lie, cheat and steal. That' no reason to lay down and let them do so.
If you are so content with your system that rather than change it you'd snarl at a Democrat who is telling you how his State gets far better turn out and elects Democrats that's part of the problem. Seeking to place blame rather than make change. Pointless.