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xAzNPimP4LiFex
11/11/25 12:28:21 PM
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laziness maybe?

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AurochSpirit
11/11/25 12:30:10 PM
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I dont support any party is the reason I hear a lot
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myusernameislame
11/11/25 12:34:25 PM
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They think it doesn't matter
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monkmith
11/11/25 12:37:36 PM
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work a day job. having the election on a fucking tuesday is a huge problem. mail in ballots have somewhat helped but many states make you jump through hurdles to get them.

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Enclave
11/11/25 12:39:23 PM
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There's a lot of reasons, I typically think most of it boils down to apathy though and it's hard to not blame them for that apathy when it often feels like the government is actively working against your interests constantly regardless of who is in power.

Yeah to people like us who are more plugged in there's far more nuance to it than that but these are not people who are actually paying attention.

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Raikuro
11/11/25 12:46:05 PM
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Massive under education about early voting. It is NOT just available one single day.
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ai123
11/11/25 1:12:41 PM
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Variations on 'None of the parties gives a shit about me', 'they're all the same', 'I'm not political', etc.

The feeling that their vote doesn't matter, either in the grand scheme of things, or because they live in a constituency where the result is a foregone conclusion.

Can't be bothered.

Sufficient barriers have been put up between them and the act of voting.

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SilverDragon22
11/11/25 1:17:13 PM
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papayapanda
11/11/25 1:58:39 PM
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  1. Disillusionment with voting entirely
  2. Deliberate orchestration of suppressing the vote (clearing the voter roles, removing the ability to hand out water in lines, shortening early voting, voter IDs and etc.)
  3. Outright lies about candidates running
  4. Not wanting to take time off from work.

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reincarnator07
11/11/25 3:05:33 PM
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Ignorance and apathy. Also a lot of people think that things will never get better, but that's mostly because people aren't putting in the effort to make things better. The GOP has been doing their thing for at least 50 years now, but people get upset that the Dems can't unfuck things in a term. While I think there's more they could be doing, there's a lot to unfuck.

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DarthEnvoy
11/11/25 3:08:53 PM
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A lot of people simply go "I'm not into politics" which is fucking batshit crazy to me. That's literally saying you aren't into how the education system, insurance, economy, rights etc. work.

And it's otherwise smart people that I've heard say it. People just aren't properly informed what "politics" actually affect.

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Enclave
11/11/25 3:14:15 PM
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DarthEnvoy posted...
A lot of people simply go "I'm not into politics" which is fucking batshit crazy to me. That's literally saying you aren't into how the education system, insurance, economy, rights etc. work.

And it's otherwise smart people that I've heard say it. People just aren't properly informed what "politics" actually affect.

I say this around a lot of elections, people do NOT pay attention and you see it all the time and doubly so when elections are near.

Look at British Columbia, the NDP won the last Provincial election there but it was a bit of a nail biter. Now, BC is the most left province but people know jack shit about the BC Conservatives and just how extreme and awful they are so a ton of people voted for them out of ignorance. This shit happens ALL THE TIME and EVERYWHERE.

Everywhere I've ever lived its been like this.

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snae99
11/11/25 3:16:47 PM
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Apathy mainly

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Evolician
11/11/25 3:20:41 PM
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Why do we even call it early voting and Election Day? Why not just call it election week? Oh right, this must be intentional to confuse and suppress voting.

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realnifty1
11/11/25 3:22:57 PM
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After the Dems caving on the shutdown I'm not voting anymore. Fuck it, if they can't do anything as basic as that, then let the whole thing burn I guess.
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haloiscoolisbak
11/11/25 5:35:57 PM
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I think it could be simplified to laziness.

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Limelol
11/11/25 5:41:50 PM
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Lack of caring. It's very easy to justify not caring if you only look at how it affects you, as for a lot of people, regardless of who wins, their own life will not dramatically change.

Add things to the mix like a left learning person seeing Democrats constantly fumbling and the passion can just evaporate. Then there's also spiteful things like "If most of the country wants to vote against their own interests, fuck them. I'm going to let them.".

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rick_alverado
11/11/25 5:43:22 PM
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For me it used to be a mix of thinking my vote didn't really matter, combined with social anxiety. That was over a decade ago though, I consistently vote now.
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Voidgolem
11/11/25 5:46:03 PM
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The American system for elections is, by design, extremely hostile to most people to actually participate in.

Being able to step out for 20 minutes during a workday is a luxury for most and that's assuming the best case of a local poll location with adequate throughput

It is genuinely strange that it's not a holiday

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El_Dustino
11/11/25 5:47:18 PM
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When you have an evil party and a party that is addicted to being cucked by the evil party it creates apathy.

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xAzNPimP4LiFex
11/11/25 6:28:42 PM
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Limelol posted...
Lack of caring. It's very easy to justify not caring if you only look at how it affects you, as for a lot of people, regardless of who wins, their own life will not dramatically change.

Add things to the mix like a left learning person seeing Democrats constantly fumbling and the passion can just evaporate. Then there's also spiteful things like "If most of the country wants to vote against their own interests, fuck them. I'm going to let them.".

I tend to forget this at times that no matter who wins, most peoples lives wont change much


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reincarnator07
11/12/25 1:13:27 AM
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realnifty1 posted...
After the Dems caving on the shutdown I'm not voting anymore. Fuck it, if they can't do anything as basic as that, then let the whole thing burn I guess.
This is an example of what I was talking about above.

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Glob
11/12/25 1:17:27 AM
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I personally considered not voting in the last general election. But that was because I questioned whether or not I should really have any right to.
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Tyranthraxus
11/12/25 1:19:54 AM
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Polls have been conducted on this generally say the reasons are:

  1. My vote doesn't matter
  2. Both sides are the same
  3. Politics doesn't affect me

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realnifty1
11/12/25 9:23:50 AM
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reincarnator07 posted...
This is an example of what I was talking about above.

Except it is exactly not that. The Dems haven't been in a position to fix things in a lifetime and I don't fault them for that, but I will fault them for not doing the bare minimum to hold the line. And if they won't do the bare minimum then neither will I.
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theAteam
11/12/25 10:09:49 AM
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There's a ton of people that don't pay attention at all to politics. I read stories about volunteers in 2016 that were going door to door and a surprising amount of people didn't even realize there was an election coming up.

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TyVulpine
11/12/25 10:13:04 AM
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"Two sides of the same coin" is what I hear most often.

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BlueBoy675
11/12/25 10:13:54 AM
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myusernameislame posted...
They think it doesn't matter
After this shitshow that excuse aint gonna fly anymore

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UnsteadyOwl
11/12/25 10:31:49 AM
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I think part of what fuels people's feelings that their vote doesn't matter and it doesn't affect them anyway is that there's so much focus on national news and it seems people don't follow local news as much as they used to. Depending on where you live, it can be hard to follow local news even if you want to since so many small town newspapers no longer exist.

What's happening nationally is important, but on a state and especially local level your vote counts for a lot more and what happens there is more likely to have a direct impact on your daily life.

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2001mark
11/12/25 10:34:59 AM
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Ignorance is bliss - I've seen ppl who relish blaming all their problems on politics & politicians.
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refmon
11/12/25 10:36:20 AM
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ReturnOfDevsman
11/12/25 10:43:20 AM
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myusernameislame posted...
They think it doesn't matter

xAzNPimP4LiFex posted...
laziness maybe?
These.

How would you convince someone whose state has not voted blue since the 70's when blue was conservative, that they can change that?

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TyVulpine
11/12/25 11:11:58 AM
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ReturnOfDevsman posted...
These.

How would you convince someone whose state has note voted blue since the 70's when blue was conservative, that they can change that?
It's difficult especially when the red conservatives have gerrymandered themselves into a majority.

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rick_alverado
11/12/25 11:12:51 AM
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UnsteadyOwl posted...
I think part of what fuels people's feelings that their vote doesn't matter and it doesn't affect them anyway is that there's so much focus on national news and it seems people don't follow local news as much as they used to. Depending on where you live, it can be hard to follow local news even if you want to since so many small town newspapers no longer exist.

What's happening nationally is important, but on a state and especially local level your vote counts for a lot more and what happens there is more likely to have a direct impact on your daily life.

Even if the vote is worth more on a local level, that doesnt necessarily mean it will matter more. Last time my city had a local election there were three mayoral candidates and all were older conservative men with essentially the same platform. And for city council there was only one more person running than there were seats.
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texanfan27
11/12/25 11:28:03 AM
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Lack of incentive to vote

voting is a pain for most

so much misinformation people just dont care

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emblem-man
11/12/25 11:31:42 AM
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rick_alverado posted...
Even if the vote is worth more on a local level, that doesnt necessarily mean it will matter more. Last time my city had a local election there were three mayoral candidates and all were older conservative men with essentially the same platform. And for city council there was only one more person running than there were seats.

I mean that's the problem. Localized politics is vastly underrated and because of that, people just don't run for those offices. If people knew how important local politicians are to keeping housing prices low/high, we'd have a lot more people running for those positions

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Heineken14
11/12/25 11:36:03 AM
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Pretty much this. Was going to say a combo of voting being cumbersome and the perpetuation of "same thing, both sides" that leads to apathy.

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FolkenRawr
11/12/25 11:43:32 AM
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Most it's laziness. And then a lot of 'both sides are bad'

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Westernwolf4
11/12/25 11:53:39 AM
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1.I think GOP propaganda has been very successful convincing people that all political parties are the same and awful, and so a lot of people dont bother.

2.I think a lot of Americans take democracy for granted as something that will always be here, no matter how lazy and unengaged they are. As was always obvious, and as we have seen, Democracy is actually fragile as hell. An attentive voting base has to check corruption, or it will not work.

3.GOP has engaged in decades of voter suppression and rolling back initiatives to make voting easier for people. They know if everyone votes, they lose. Harder to vote equals less votes.

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Jupiter
11/12/25 12:47:53 PM
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In the past, it was because I didn't pay attention to politics much and didn't think it really mattered since I live in a deeply red state. So I didn't really think it was worth it since I didn't know about early voting and it was very hard to get time from my job. Nor did I want to stand in line for a very long time. Trump has made me much more political though, and now I vote against republicans every chance I get. Especially with early voting. My two or three early voting experiences were amazing. I literally walked into the building and immediate was able to go through processing and hit a kiosk within 30 secs and walked out.

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reincarnator07
11/12/25 2:54:22 PM
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realnifty1 posted...
Except it is exactly not that. The Dems haven't been in a position to fix things in a lifetime and I don't fault them for that, but I will fault them for not doing the bare minimum to hold the line. And if they won't do the bare minimum then neither will I.
Oh I'm happy to criticise them for the rest of their existence, but it doesn't change the fact that the reason they aren't in a position to fix things is because people don't vote for them. On top of that, primary turnout is so poor that it's difficult to get rid of some of these shitty Dems. Until America unfucks its voting system (like that could happen without revolution) the people need to start ensuring the right candidates get through to the elections in the first place.

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sfcalimari
11/12/25 2:56:28 PM
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DarthEnvoy posted...
A lot of people simply go "I'm not into politics" which is fucking batshit crazy to me. That's literally saying you aren't into how the education system, insurance, economy, rights etc. work.

And it's otherwise smart people that I've heard say it. People just aren't properly informed what "politics" actually affect.

"I don't pay attention to politics. Wait, why have all the food banks in my state shut down?"

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ReturnOfDevsman
11/12/25 3:02:46 PM
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DarthEnvoy posted...
A lot of people simply go "I'm not into politics" which is f***ing bats*** crazy to me. That's literally saying you aren't into how the education system, insurance, economy, rights etc. work.
The problem as I see it is they can never just be upfront about it.

Like ok, the state income tax now funds this thing instead of the state property tax. Sure, some politics chess grand master sees that and immediately goes OH NO but someone would have to sit me down and explain why that's bad, why that ultimately means something that actually does matter, that they couldn't just come out and say.

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Distant_Rainbow
11/12/25 6:09:53 PM
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monkmith posted...
work a day job. having the election on a f***ing tuesday is a huge problem.

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papayapanda posted...
Not wanting to take time off from work.

(and many other posts)

...Wait a minute.

Americans have to work on election day??

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DrizztLink
11/12/25 6:10:33 PM
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Distant_Rainbow posted...
...Wait a minute.

Americans have to work on election day??
If we make it too easy to vote, we make it too hard to fuck rats.

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LightHawKnight
11/12/25 6:12:48 PM
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myusernameislame posted...
They think it doesn't matter

Which is so stupid. Why the fuck do they think Republicans try to making voting impossible? Why would they spend so much money and effort into it if your vote doesnt matter?

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nocturnal_traveler
11/12/25 6:15:02 PM
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When you have Republicans pushing voter apathy and voter suppression, establishment Democrats proving their point, and the media numbing minds, it makes a lot of sense.

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thronedfire2
11/12/25 6:50:09 PM
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In the US, Election Day not being a national holiday is a deliberate choice to make it harder for working people to vote

In lucky in that I live in MA, a state that makes it very easy to vote with lots of polling locations at least.

for the 2024 election I went at about 5pm and I was in and out within 5 minutes. But my city had like 10 different polling stations

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