Plouffe Sees ‘Screaming Siren’ Party Warning in Florida

[myrna minx]

131. I don't accept your framing and what I find to be false choices.

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The liberal base can still work hard to door knock, drive the elderly to the polls, phone bank *and* feel betrayed by the third way rightward pull and direction of the national party. I don't accept that false choices you present in this argument.

Also - voters aren't "lazy" - that's a bit of a haughty view of our citizens. In addition, I've never claimed that the voters are stupid either - yet another false frame.

Do you do realize that voters in in Ohio and Florida have had to wait for *hours* to vote? In horrible weather conditions? There are punitive Koch brother funded voting laws erupting up all over the country to prevent the right to vote for many! It's not a slight inconvenience as you say, in fact people have missed whole work shifts while waiting to vote because of the oppressive poll lines. The revocation of early voting which aids non-traditional workers like servers, factory workers etc - not just 8-5 workers has depressed voter turnout too.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/11/04/1136701/why-the-lines-are-so-long-in-florida-and-ohio/

Voters need to feel the issues they are passionate about mean something to those they elect. Democrats win when they promote populist positions like raising the minimum wage and expanding Medicare to cover the aging Boomers. Voters don't go to the polls for shitty fast track trade deals and oil pipelines. If voters in voter caging areas are to stand in line for hours, we better make it worth their while. Calling them lazy (and falsely claiming I called them stupid) isn't the way to go to GOTV>