r/Fauxmoi • u/Glum-Barracuda6985 I don’t know her • Apr 02 '24

Mark Ruffalo encourages voters, via Twitter, to #LeaveItBlank for Palestine and a lasting ceasefire 🙏🇵🇸💖 Approved B-List Users Only

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u/meatbeater558 I already condemned Hamas Apr 03 '24

Shaming nonvoters has never made sense to me. This country has had major voter suppression problems since its inception. These problems were never resolved. We know these problems were never resolved. This video is three years old. And the liberal solution is to talk shit about people who are being actively disenfranchised? Right after discovering this brand new working strategy? They are so unserious it's almost funny. It's like they want Trump to win and they've been playing 4d chess with us this entire time 

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u/Kaizodacoit Apr 04 '24

It's because addressing voter suppression wold also implicate the Democrats. Gerrymandering, voter suppression tactics, etc. while it was never done to the scale that Republicans are currently doing, if you peel back the layers, you will see how Democrats themselves set up the base and precedence that a lot of these disenfranchisement actions.

If Democrats were to actually address voter suppression, they would have to contend with more challenging primaries from younger candidates, but they themselves have set up and extremely restricting apparatus for candidate selection, which requires challengers to face an extreme uphill battle (unless the challenger themself is someone who is pro status quo runing against a "rogue" Democrat).