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Looks like the GOP hasn't learned much...
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2014 May 1, 12:55am 20,055 views 42 comments
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Automan Empire
2014 May 6, 5:40am
You can spot a white voter from a mile away since they'll stand out from the
crowd.
...Or you could step into my aforementioned polling place. A handful of white elders voting. The hoi polloi of the neighborhood- the so-called typical Obama voters, are 0% represented inside the polling places on election day.
I remember trying to gather signatures and register voters for Prop 215 to legalize cannabis. Lots of people were ready to sign, but would NOT register to vote so their signature would be worse than useless on the ballot petition. The main reasons given for not wanting to register to vote?
I don't want to be on some government list. I don't want to have to serve jury duty.
Vicente
2014 May 6, 2:24pm
I don't want to be on some government list. I don't want to have to serve jury duty.
Oh. I hadn't really thought of that. Well I guess that's the American Way
What's in it for me?
My family taught me to respect Civics 101. Jury duty is a RESPONSIBILITY you should take seriously. There's no compulsory military/civil service here like other countries. All that they ask is you serve for a week or two once in a great while in the justice system. I cannot comprehend the people who spend so much energy thinking of ways to dodge it. 4-5 days every decade or two, BFD! It's the exact same mentality as tax-dodging fatcats.
I got mine, fuck you!
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So yesterday basically looked like a total repeat of what the GOP seems to do over and over again: Vote against legislation that in turn are things that the very demographic they need in order to win are all for. This time its the minimum wage.
In one way I wasn't surprised. The GOP's seemingly blind and inexhaustible appetite to be against most any sort of legislation that serves to benefit the working, middle class , and young fits right in to this latest debate. On the other I couldn't help but wonder if anyone in their party had stopped and thought about what their vote meant for at least 5 seconds.
Think about it: The GOP has even said that a large percentage of those who work in minimum wage jobs are younger, in high school or college or whatnot. I'm not sure that's exactly true, albeit there are many from that age bracket who certainly do. But even if it were, that segment of the population is a very large piece of the demographic the party has failed to attract- in part due to their prior decisions which are equally distasteful to that age group. So in voting against this law they simply helped the Democrats even more by showing younger folks that yup- come 2016 theirs is once again not the party to vote for.
In the end its sort of sad. You would think that after 2 Presidential elections where they lost- the last one with the GOP even saying that they needed to reach out beyond the base- that the message would be loud and clear. Yet all has been forgotten and its back to business as usual with the GOP on the road to their 3rd defeat.
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