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The president warned that not enough is being done to avert dangerous global temperature rise, which is heating up the Arctic twice as fast as the rest of the world.
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Bernie Sanders on the issues .. well worth a read .. (here)
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For Americans who are eligible to vote:
- “I don’t want to get jury duty!” Being registered to vote has nothing to do with jury duty. Anyone who pays taxes can get jury duty.
- “I don’t want to vote for the lesser of two evils!” Stated wonderfully here: not voting for the lesser of two evils is like giving half a vote for the greater of two evils. Sometimes, you get to vote on the greater of two goods.
- “I don’t know how to vote, or who to vote for!” With the internet, learning about local issues is now extremely easy, and no longer time-consuming. Also using the internet, you can learn how to vote, when to register. If you don’t know if you’re registered, look it up here.
- “I don’t really care.” Perfectly acceptable. If you don’t care, don’t vote.
- “Elections are controlled by the rich!” Corperations get fewer votes than you, and millionaires get the same amount. Millionaires can change the vote, however, because most of them actually vote.
- “I physically can’t get to the polls.” Absentee voting is annoying, but it exists.
- “Politics is eating my soul.” Politics now seem to be about scaring people and raising hell and anxiety in the population. The gridlock is annoying. People care more about personal attacks than actual issues. The only way to change this is to vote away from partisanship.
- “It’s not even a democracy.” Yes it is. Every American citizen can vote unless special circumstances forbid it. It could be more representative, but you know how to change that? You vote.
- “My vote doesn’t matter.” IF EVERY YOUNG PERSON WHO USES THIS EXCUSE VOTES ONE TUESDAY EVERY TWO YEARS THEY WOULD LITERALLY BE THE DECIDING VOTE IN THOUSANDS OF ELECTIONS.
People born after 1980 make up 30% of people who can vote. Only 21% of them vote.
If you’re not voting, no one is hearing your voice.
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Right wingers love to slam the government as they use the government programs they are slamming. #thankless #ingrates
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Take a policy issue, or flaw in character, that Republicans resoundingly disapprove, give that flaw to a GOP candidate, and watch how the GOP base shreds their own values to prop up their weak-tea’d circus show.
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No one is forcing a ‘gay agenda’ on you. We the People are forcing equality, legal rulings, and “love thy neighbor” scripture onto your shitty life.
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Republican politicians do not have the courage to admit their true beliefs and selfish “all for me, none for you” personal ethics.
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…“It was Thursday, and so far the FEMA buses had still not arrived to help evacuate people from the Convention Center and Superdome, nor had Bush sent any federal troops, who were desperately needed in the search-and-rescue efforts. Instead of sending help, the administration had come up with a ploy. “I was on a conference call with the White House,” Adam Sharp says, “where they were saying: If you want any help, you have to turn over all control of your state to the president. We won’t help until you give us control of your National Guard and your law enforcement agencies, until Louisiana becomes a federal territory. They were using this as the excuse for their delaying on the issues. They kept trying to put it on Blanco. But no governor would ever give control of her state to the president.” — Salon 2008
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