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Godnorgosh posted...

This was always a rhetorical point to persuade/guilt-trip/whatever non-voters to vote Democrat, and not something that was ever actually, literally true. Voted Biden 2020, fyi.

Republicans almost uniformly see it as their responsibility to vote. The sense of urgency is not always found on the left and certainly not in the middle.

I think it comes down to four factors:

• Republicans often have a strong sense of patriotism and it is seen as a privilege to be able to vote.
• There's a lot of learned helplessness on the left. ("This country's still gonna suck, so why bother?")
• For all the party's flaws, one positive is the sense of responsibility and work ethic. The responsibility to vote is strong within many of them.
• Easily the worst reason, people who are bigoted will walk barefoot on broken glass if that's what it takes to insure a preferential status for themselves at a detriment to others.

If voting were mandatory, Democrats would get 70% of the vote each time. That's part of the reason that it's not mandatory. There are people who profit from maintaining the status quo. And that comes about by having the two parties cancel each other out.

Kastrada posted...

Harris would be the first Asian American president as well though.

Nice.
I forgot about that.

Graycap posted...

There's nothing inspirational about being handed an office.

People voted for the Biden/Harris. It's understood that a VP could at any time become President.