Yet it’s “too late to do a debate” according to trump…

? Walz has gotten tons of progressive policies through with a single seat majority in his state

Gauranteed paid family and medical leave, universal free lunches, passed protections for trans people, put over a billion into affordable housing development, taxes corporations more, expanded union protections, and more

Not only that, but

He was a faculity advisor of a gay-straight alliance in the 90s when that was not very socially acceptable at all

He’s got a strong pro-union background

He has not acted like a republican

When I first saw it, I thought it was in suport of him until I realized who was posting it

Same thing for “all lives matter” where I thought it was someone agreeing with black lives matter the first time I heard it. Didn’t realize someone could get so close to the point and miss it there

Low numbers =/= full ban

Read the link and look at what they are asking for. They’re asking for a designation change to make the process simpler/easier for gaza refugees

Not to say we shouldn’t also be doing that, but that the link does not say there is a full ban as trump is suggesting

Yes, however, doing it for one type of legislation is opening the same flood gates as any legislation. Given that she’s historically called the filibusted archaic and not something she wants in the way of voting rights as well. I don’t see her wanting it removed narrowly

I don’t follow what you are saying when that’s what would have to happen to do this?

In 2022, she’s also said she supports removing the filibuster to get voting rights acts and other things through as well

The concepts of a plan like a vauge idea to scrap all the good parts and replace them with nothing. Vance has talked about removing pre-existing condition protections for instance

Early voting also means in person early voting

If you have interest in helping more people, there are ways to volunteer from anywhere

Democrats Abroad have some volunteer opportunities on their site

https://www.democratsabroad.org/volunteer

If you want to write letters to abroad voters to help remind them to vote, Vote Forward has some letters left on their voters abroad get out the vote campaign

https://votefwd.org/district/US_2024_ABROAD_GOTV

One piece worth noting is that there intentionally is no dem running in this race. It’s only a republican and independent, so no need to worry about anyone acting as a spoiler here

I think a lot of people are sleeping on this race. People have kind of expected it to start moving towards republicans as undecided decrease. However in the in the limited public polling, the race so far has stayed close to statistically tied as undecideds slowly decrease (though still pretty high number)

Maybe not what you intended, but the phrasing there sounded a lot like saying that. “ignore all of those without it mattering” sounds like saying those topics themselves don’t matter. That’s how I ended up reading it

Nice! Make sure to do that sooner rather than later since it can take a bit of time for the ballot to get back

That’s not what I am responding to. I am responding to the claim of someone saying politics don’t matter at all to anyone ever. I find a great deal of issue with that

As a sidebar, voting still does matter a lot outside of swing states. Down ballot races are often way closer than you’d think even in deep blue or deep red states. Those local races also have a lot more importance than people think

That’s not at all how the person I was replying to phrased it. They said it didn’t matter for anyone at all ever

That’s what I take far more issue with

That’s not at all how the person I was replying to phrased it. They said it didn’t matter for anyone at all ever

That’s what I take far more issue with

EDIT: And to clarify, I am responding to the general claim that none of this matters to anyone ever. That is what I take issue with. The claim the political process as a whole can be ignore despite the consequences of it

Not trans people

Not gay peoole

Not immigrants

Not people on Obamacare

Not people who like having a functional national weather service (Project 2025 wants to eliminate it)

Not the parents of kids in schools (project 2025 wants to also eliminate the department of education)

And so on

You may not think politics affects you, but its outcomes certainly do. Even if it didn’t, someone you care about can absolutely be affected

Some democratic states have actually done that like California and New York. There’s been bills from some dems representatives to do that federally in the past

If dems get a tricecta, I suspect some dems would push for that again

Yes but not as much as people would think and it’s now gone down to about the same levels before the pandemic

They aren’t comparing directly to 20 years ago, they are comparing the delta between years. Saying that it’s the largest drop between two consecutive years when you look at the past 2 decades

Not sure what you’re saying here since that would make the drop larger? The US population is still growing. The US population grew by an estimated ~0.5-0.6% between 2022-2023 and another ~0.5-0.6% between 2023-2024 (the two periods mentioned in the article)