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(396 posts)Thanks for the information.
I tend to forget that apathy plays a huge role in the sort of gov't we wind up with.
Apathy is deliberately induced, one ex: the media serving up false equivalencies regularly. It's easier to shrug & walk away, (maybe to find the media that doesn't tell you both sides do it, Fox. )
Certainly we need gotv. What would really help that effort is if we had democratic leaders w/ vision who could fire us up, get us excited about voting.
What does the Democratic Party stand for lately besides, uh, were not as bad as the other guys?
IOW - Elizabeth Warren, who talks about the actual problems of actual people rather than the 3rd way dems who can't even inspire as much bribe money as their colleagues across the aisle.