Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming

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Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

People haven’t turned out. Voter participation is abyssmal. Just because you personally have not seen universal and positive change from your own vote immediately does not mean it can never ever work.

Voter participation is low because dipshits like you keep saying “See? Your life hasn’t irrevocably changed because of this one election! There’s no point in doing the absolute bare minimum! Better to sit at home and complain about how everything is broken and hope that someone else does something radical and meaningful about it!”

Maybe stop treating everything like a winner-take-all competition and realize that we won’t see effective long term change except through repeated concerted effort where you keep showing up. Even if you see setbacks. We might actually achieve something.

But I guess if you’d rather give up because you haven’t gotten what you want immediately, that’s entirely up to you.

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