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Not to say that everyone that votes for Trump is a Nazi, but we do know who the Nazis are voting for.
Not to say that everyone that votes for Trump is a Nazi, ...
I'll say it. It's fascism. It's been fascism for a long time. People who vote for fascism are fascists.
I did some door knocking with Pence's former national security advisor last night and got to shoot the shit with her. Never thought I would be doing that.
Suffice to say, she is firmly in the camp of "he's a fascist," and according to her, what he says behind close doors is even scarier.
Also, she claims (like other Trump officials) that he doesn't give 2 shits about his voters behind closed doors. He views them as plebs to con that so he can accumulate more wealth and more power.
Fascism is correct, but Nazism is more accurate.
Although not all fascists believed in biological racism, it played a central role in the actions of those who did. Nazism was viciously racist, especially in its attitude toward Jews.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Varieties-of-fascism
I’m a broken record today, but please grab a few hours to phone bank or door knock with us today. Phone banking can be done on your couch, and you won’t feel like a POS if the fascists win and you could’ve spent 2 hours after dinner on a Sunday to secure a few more votes.
For the first time in my life I phone banked for Harris/Walz starting last month. I was expecting to be yelled at by Trumpers but that wasn’t the case. In case anyone is nervous about making the calls, you dont call Trump supporters, you call Dems and Independents to remind them it’s time to vote and how they can get information on voting. I haven’t had any nasty calls yet.
Correct. The calls are very targeted toward helping people correct a ballot that isn’t being counted, or helping / nudging sympathetic voters to get out.
A random volunteer ain’t going to be able to deprogram years of maga propaganda in a 2 minute phone call. Those calls are a waste of time. Turnout calls are more effective.
But how do you get their numbers? Just dial randomly and hang up if the person sounds Republican?
When you volunteer with a campaign, you don’t get the phone numbers and don’t use your actually cell phone. You use a dialer program where the campaign dials and connects you via your computer. So you click a button that says you are ready to do a call, the program then uses their phone system to dial someone in their system and it connects the call to you via your computer. The phone numbers come from wherever campaigns get their lists from.
When you register to vote here, you can have a party affiliation and can give them permission to contact you.
Plus also make sure to encourage and remind any dem leaning people you know to get out and vote. Friends, family, neighbors, etc it makes more of a difference than you might think
And bring a friend of your phone banking. Grab a beer, have fun with it. It’s not hard and you’re going to be targeting sympathetic voters, not the maga brainwashed.
Also also worth noting that there's also even phone banking on Tuesday on election day too if you want something to do that day beyond just voting (if you have not yet voted)
Hey, I was working solo through a 42-door canvass list when I saw your post, it was encouraging!
Not bad. Any fun people on the list?
Dunno, I'm not a natural at this, so I'm still "decompressing". I kept thinking of that picture with the kid holding a sign saying "It's so bad, even the introverts are here!"
Anyone ever have a good experience making or receiving these calls?
The door knocking is definitely more of a positive thing, but I got about 2-3 effective calls in a 2 hour window.
And if you get 50 people in a phone bank, that can translate to 100 ballots cured and or people at the polls.
And when you’re talking about elections that are won by hundreds of votes, that phone time matters.
Why is everyone waiting for the perfect choice that will never come?
I'm thinking through the last half dozen presidents and I don't see how Kamala is far worse than any of them, that people are making comments like this
Lots of reasons, really. Some of them are disenfranchised with the system, some of them are probably part of a Russian campaign, and some of them are just idiots.
And probably you should look at your ballot and vote for democratic people like Democratic representatives or local government on the democratic party. When you do that, next election will be easier to win by the Democrats. That way we can take a breather and finally abolish the stupid electoral college. It's 2024, we can easily vote by phone 🤳. Give people a nice moth to vote on....like July maybe? So they can take a free day to vote when there are no hurricanes or snow pack or whatever bullshit happens in October. And then change over to a new government the next month.
I am voting but I could throw my president vote right in the trash and it'd have the same effect thanks to the electoral college. The local shit I'm voting on will potentially have a bigger impact.
American authocracy at its finest... I agree one should vote, and not for Trump. But this poster is disheartening...
Best and also only choice to beat a Nazi
If Kamela wins, she MUST reorganize the US political system. She'll be the no limits president, Supreme Court said so, she can do whatever she wants.
Cut the shit with the electoral college. Just direct voting
No more winner takes all. The US needs 30 political parties, not two
Get rid of unlimited terms for any government office, especially for the supreme Court
Just three basic things, but the real list is much, much longer.
If Trump wins then it doesn't matter, you'll be living in a dictatorship for the rest of your miserable lives..
None of those things is within the authority of the President to do.