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Some people's lives are so bad they would rather focus on personal survival than electing the good cop over the bad cop, both of whom would likely make their lives either a little or a lot worse every single year. "Our country is at stake" only really matters if you have systemic benefits from this country- otherwise, it just seems like it's a plea for victims of this country to take your comfort into consideration above anything else. Sure, we're on the precipice of a fascist takeover where even the white people in gated neighborhoods could start feeling even fractionally as bad as people of color currently do, but it might be worth considering this perspective isn't just some petty or ignorant thing- it's a rotten system created by racist white men that might not be worth participating in because even if the system is perfectly fixed, there will always be people on top and people on the bottom. At least with Kamala, there is a hope of traveling farther away from that "racist white man who begs me for votes and never delivers on promises" trope, so it doesn't surprise me one bit.

How would they know the country is at stake when they're desinterested in politics or only watch TV?

I want you to consider the actual danger of voting for people like them, if Trump is elected. You likely live in a state where your voter record is public. Now, add that you’re not caucasian. Or not religious (lest we forget the religious nuts making maps of non-religion homes). Or in a non-traditional marriage/relationship. And nevermind the fact the meal team 6 will be standing guard at every voting station to disenfranchise these voters…

When your voting choice is the lesser evil of two old white guys, neither whom have your interests in mind? Yeah, its safer and smarter to keep to yourself and stay home. Because Trump and Project 25 are a danger to everyone not on their list.

Of course Kamala is the bright shining light and I’m even more excited. This will be the first election that I am so excited to vote, since Obama. And I hope we get enough to get a large enough majority to correct the damage done these last 12 years and do everything possible to undo any cheating advantage the right has remaining.

A lot of people feel the everyday effects of the broken system directly. When healthcare, housing, and transportation are daily struggles, it doesn't seem to matter which dictator is being elected in Venezula or who is allowed to wear clothes against their expected gender norms. It's ignorance based on survival.

Just two unfortunate people honestly.

Black Americans have been on the receiving end of fascism since they were dragged to the New World in a big old boat.

slight change in aesthetics? this take is more surface level than actually voting for the color of a candidate's skin.

if democracy is on the line, you better act like it. putting a corpse up as your candidate ain't it.

When Biden was on the ballot, voters didn't see him as someone who could take radical steps to address the number of underlying issues plaguing the country.

A vote for Biden was a vote for the status quo. The status quo is a slow decline into fascism.

I think it's more about being sick of an absolute lack of any attempt at representation. I will avoid the topic of race and come at this at a completely different angle because it was my experience.

I decided this would be the first election I would vote in, I have been apathetic for a long time. Cuss me or praise me it was how I exercised my right and I did it with thought. I decided to change that this year and I'll be damned if I'll vote uninformed, so I tuned into the first pres debate I've ever paid attention too.

I fully expected to see Trump lying/ talking out his ass and I had already seen some of the points of project 2025 so I already had an expectation. I hadn't really ever paid Biden attention and was curious, but honestly my vote was well decided. Again though I wanted to know exactly who I was voting for. I was shocked, I felt deceived, but above all I thought " this is the elected official that is supposed to represent my ideals?". Which he already wasn't and I had made so many many small concessions, it was just the straw that broke the camels back. I felt all the anger and frustration that I had quelled resurface with vengeance. Now I recognized even in the moment this was an emotional knee jerk reaction, so I decided to watch every interview after to find genuine motivation to vote for Biden. Never did, it was just Grandpa refusing to even acknowledge giving his license up after ramming into a pharmacy with his car. Biden always spoke of the past when asked about inflation, everyday struggles, his accomplishments, his wealth, his political career, half the shit he referenced happened before the birth of my parents. The entire time I just felt so disconnected from him as a representative of my vote.

Now I'm not trying to justify not voting because of this, you should always vote and I'm trying to be better as well. I'm just saying I can empathize with how hard it is to be motivated to vote when you already don't feel represented whether that's ideologically, physically, racially, gender, region, or whatever it's all going to play into it, consciously or unconsciously. Even when you vote, you still can feel powerless. I suppose I can't say that for sure yet but I am pretty positive I will about that because the broken things I want to see fixed wouldn't start to mend immediately after voting because of how broken they are and how complex the solution probably will be, but I'm trying to have hope long term.

Your mistake is seeing them as Democrat voters. Maybe if the Republicans had a brown candidate they would vote for them instead.

Thanks to our hyperbolic media, people think voting is something they get excited for every four years; like the Olympics.

Really it's something you have to do every year and requires effort to do research; like your taxes.