Current Events > non voters are heavily minority and poor

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https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/nonvoters-are-not-privileged-they-are-largely-lower-income-non-white-and-dissatisfied-with-the-two-parties

As the Washington Posts summary of that survey put it: Pews data shows that almost half of the nonvoters were nonwhite and two-thirds were under age 50. More than half of those who didnt vote earned less than $30,000 a year; more than half of those who did vote were over age 50.

and more than 66% of the country is white, which makes how many of them are POC even more significant
but instead of try to figure why 100 million people don't vote why 42% of eligible voters don't vote they shame them. Instead of rectifying the problem they also laughably called them "privileged" which is largely projection as a huge amount of voters are affluent and white.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/298.html W.E.B Dubois said it best. It is extremely frighting how many parallels there are to the current election.

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a "Socialist" Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform. If a voter organizes or advocates a real third-party movement, he may be accused of seeking to overthrow this government by "force and violence." Anything he advocates by way of significant reform will be called "Communist" and will of necessity be Communist in the sense that it must advocate such things as government ownership of the means of production; government in business; the limitation of private profit; social medicine, government housing and federal aid to education; the total abolition of race bias; and the welfare state

this Administration is dominated and directed by wealth and for the accumulation of wealth. It runs smoothly like a well-organized industry and should do so because industry runs it for the benefit of industry. Corporate wealth profits as never before in history. We turn over the national resources to private profit and have few funds left for education, health or housing. Our crime, especially juvenile crime, is increasing. Its increase is perfectly logical; for a generation we have been teaching our youth to kill, destroy, steal and rape in war; what can we expect in peace? We let men take wealth which is not theirs; if the seizure is "legal" we call it high profits and the profiteers help decide what is legal. If the theft is "illegal" the thief can fight it out in court, with excellent chances to win if he receives the accolade of the right newspapers. Gambling in home, church and on the stock market is increasing and all prices are rising. It costs three times his salary to elect a Senator and many millions to elect a President. This money comes from the very corporations which today are the government. This in a real democracy would be enough to turn the party responsible out of power. Yet this we cannot do.

Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest.

Is the answer the election of 1956? We can make a sick man President and set him to a job which would strain a man in robust health. So he dies, and what do we get to lead us? With Stevenson and Nixon, with Eisenhower and Eastland, we remain in the same mess. I will be no party to it and that will make little difference.


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I don't blame them, they have better things to do than vote.

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If people dont vote, thats their own damn fault and they should shut the fuck up when they get no results.

even if they do vote they get no results lmfao

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Capitalism is a failed system but socialism has failed even harder
we need something new

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it's up to these people who have been fucked by everybody including joe Biden to save everybody else from trump

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https://twitter.com/RobbyMook/status/1249500948898238470

lmfao this dude's dad was a dartmouth physics professor his mom was a hospital admin.
His incompetence and arrogance as the head of hillary's campaign are a huge reason we have Trump.

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