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In reply to the discussion: What's your response to the "There's [almost] no difference between the two parties" comment? [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)So it becomes a cost-benefit analysis. Do you take time out of your busy day, trying to keep yourself above subsistence, to wait in order to vote for one candidate or the other who will almost assuredly treat you as a non-entity?
The big failing of the Democratic party - a failing of both parties really but it's especially bad coming from the democrats - is the assumption that they can take needy sectors of the voting public for granted. I see it here on DU all the time, from our right-wing democrat posters. "Whaddya gonna do, vote republican? Haw! Haw! Haw!" The party makes little effort to engage people on the bottom rungs until the very last moment, when volunteers pull up and knock on the door with the question "have you voted today?"
It's rather sorry to complain about people staying home, when those are inevitably the same people you spit on, dismiss, and ignore throughout your entire political career, 'cause their donations, if there, trend towards double digits on a good day, rather than six.