the establishment on both sides actively participates in voter suppression, it would be beneficial as a society if it was a paid holiday, but they dont want certain demographics represented, I remember reading an article years ago about the lack of available public transit for potential voters of color in the south and how the voting place was too far for them to get to, so there was a program for busing people to the voting booths, but that is just one example of the strategy employed to keep certain voices from being heard.
I never vote because of the same reason. But this year I am voting for Bernie. He's the only person I've ever seen run for president that I truly believe in
I applaud your effort. THANK YOU! I just wish the majority of traditionally nonvoting citizens would follow your lead and help overwhelm the system at the ballot box. Anybody who refuses to vote simply feeds the self-fulfilling assumption that elections don't matter. They CAN make a great difference (for the better), but for elections to actually reflect the will of the people, the people must actually express their will in great enough numbers to become undeniable and obvious. See you at the polls! Bernie 2020!
imo Good vid. My son has never voted because he sees them all as liars and crooks. He said he'll register and vote for Sanders if he gets the nomination because-even tho he doesn't like all of Sanders' ideas-he thinks Bernie says what he means and means what he says. My fingers are crossed. imo
Sounds like you raised a good one, Charlie. Voting for Bernie in the primary is so important. If there's any chance you can express that to him and talk him into participating, he would get a voice in whether or not Bernie's on the ticket in November. Get on him! ✊
@@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 I understand that. I'm just so glad we've all found a candidate we can trust. And Bernie crushed it in Nevada, so no harm, no foul, right?
@@mandi8716 Agreed and agreed! Being a pessimistic geezer with little-to-no faith in the system, I'll breathe easier if/when Sanders actually gets the nomination.
But will you at least come out and vote for Bernie or whoever you like in the primary? If you like Bernie and we get him 1,991 delegates they can't take it from him and maybe as the head of the party he can get rid of this undemocratic system altogether.
That is the time to get out our yellow nests...Come on, people, if the steal ANOTHER election from us, surely this would be the time to fight back in earnest...
If non-voters really believe the system is rigged, then they should vote for Bernie as he is the only candidate who is going to fundamentally change the system for the working class.
That was my intention in 2016 but Bernie got screwed hopefully this go around I'll get to vote for him. I voted for Clinton out of a sense of loyalty to the Democratic party but seeing how the DNC operates that "Vote Blue No Matter Who" has no meaning to me.
I had that experience first hand canvassing for Bernie in Nevada, one case in particular, late on the last day of early voting, I met 2 ladies who said "I don't vote because it's all rigged anyway" When I said, we can beat the rigging by coming out in overwhelming numbers and told them what Bernie stands for, they literally got their keys, locked their house and went to go vote.
"They'll stay home (...) UNLESS we elect BERNIE SANDERS!!!!" You mean, Sanders will build the 'wall' ? If You didn't noticed, the silent majority doesn't just want 'universal medicare' - they also want a stop to _illegal immigration_ . They are not idealogues, like You (assumingly), but *pragmatists* .
@@christophmahler while the majority of Americans want M4A, (yes, even republicans) they also want a workable immigration policy and Sanders is the only one offering that as well nice try though
@@Bluebelle51 "(...) a workable immigration policy (...)" No, smartass. 02:40 *The survey mentioned explicitly 'the wall'* - while socialists want to increase illegal immigration, in the hope they would enlarge the client pool for their political machine. The only thing that unites the nationalist working class with the socialist lower middle class is the *rejection of the neo-liberal establishment and it's political institutions* (e.g. 'rigged' primaries). If You have news about _Sanders building the 'wall'_ , You shouldn't have held back. If You got the impression that I oppose Sanders election - that is not the case. But anything as drastic as the 'wall' is the key to potential Trump voters - not because they are racists, but because they sense immigration as completely out of control. In time, it is not going to be any party that will advocate for hispanic interest, but the cartels.
I didn't vote in 2016 because both major parties offered horrible options. I was rooting for Bernie & the DNC, as well as the media screwing him, didn't encourage me to vote. This year, I made sure to get out to vote for Bernie in the primary which I wasn't even sure when or how all this pre-election stuff worked previously. But I am committed to voting for Bernie.
One of the more formative moments in my life was when I spoke to an Arizona House member to ask her how she thought she would get away with some egregious policy and she said to me, she gave out a cynical laugh and then said, “Poor people don’t vote." At first it was like a gut punch but from that moment on I made sure to talk about it and to have more people vote. Voting day is the day when the CEO and the average worker are equal, one vote each. But you have to use it, you have to show up, you have to vote. For those that don’t think a vote has value, look at the millions that special interests are willing to pump into an election to persuade one vote? It’s a lot. That’s how more voters need to look at it. If you don’t vote, if your issue group doesn’t vote, you will get screwed. That is the way the system works.
Sorry Hon... I hope Sanders doesn't have them steal it from him as they have planned since 2016, however they will in fact do just that... they like their Giant Orange Psycho Clown... he makes them all tons of $$$ & is way too stupid to do anything that they can't control in order to ensure their long term plans continue... he is as much a slave to the establishment as everyone else... One day hopefully everyone will understand that the BEST people in America will SUFFER rather than SAY AMEN to: 1. Abortion 2. Gay Marriage 3. Bombing Civilian Populations 4. DRONE LYNCHING 5. The Unconstitutional currency = DEBT SLAVERY 6. Corporofascism 7. Making an equivalency between CHRISTianity & the DENIAL of Christ aka slaughtering palestinians for the THEOCRATIC FICTION of israehell 8. Police Surveillance State & Empire 9. Global government IMF SDR PetroDollar etc etc 10. Plantation prison meat warehouse system for profit 11. Extinguishment of A PRIORI GOD endowed RIGHTS by: fictional power/ abuse of power/expansion of power 12. FAILURE to uphold REMEDY for EVERY GOD endowed RIGHT extinguishment AND that is the reason a lot of people REFUSE to vote... casting a vote means you are AGREEING with the above: NO SALE! [uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea3f82b643a51af7c76a457196256104bd20417c99dd82e52200bccee5e32678.jpg ]]
look at the millions who've lost their lives for that right. And if it's SUBVERTED by the DNC in Milwaukee we must be ready to *Physically Fight* in Defense of all of the sacrifices made for our right to vote... We owe it to past and future generations.
Sorry friend, but nobody needs to vote. And the reason poor people don't vote, is because it isn't doing anything for them. So they found better things to do, working with things they can control. Just because those interests pump all their money, effort etc, into the facade, doesn't mean our votes have any value. I'm sorry friend, but our votes have no power. So I will continue to never vote in life, and remain unregistered.
Voting in Brazil (where I’m originally from) is on a Sunday. I couldn’t believe when I moved to the US and found out voting is on a weekday and it isn’t even a holiday... what a way to disenfranchise people!
The establishment has intentionally down-played the importance of political awareness, activism, and participation for decades because they don't want to be challenged. And the system is designed to make it difficult for poor, minority, and working class communities to vote (lack of polling places, elections held solely on work days with minimal early or absentee voting allowed in many states).
Lol, that makes no sense though. Why would they not want you involved, and profiting them further? Have you ever considered that them pretending they don't want you to be involved, is just a ploy to trick you into getting involved?
Sorry Hon... I hope Sanders doesn't have them steal it from him as they have planned since 2016, however they will in fact do just that... they like their Giant Orange Psycho Clown... he makes them all tons of $$$ & is way too stupid to do anything that they can't control in order to ensure their long term plans continue... he is as much a slave to the establishment as everyone else... One day hopefully everyone will understand that the BEST people in America will SUFFER rather than SAY AMEN to: 1. Abortion 2. Gay Marriage 3. Bombing Civilian Populations 4. DRONE LYNCHING 5. The Unconstitutional currency = DEBT SLAVERY 6. Corporofascism 7. Making an equivalency between CHRISTianity & the DENIAL of Christ aka slaughtering palestinians for the THEOCRATIC FICTION of israehell 8. Police Surveillance State & Empire 9. Global government IMF SDR PetroDollar etc etc 10. Plantation prison meat warehouse system for profit 11. Extinguishment of A PRIORI GOD endowed RIGHTS by: fictional power/ abuse of power/expansion of power 12. FAILURE to uphold REMEDY for EVERY GOD endowed RIGHT extinguishment AND that is the reason a lot of people REFUSE to vote... casting a vote means you are AGREEING with the above: NO SALE! [uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea3f82b643a51af7c76a457196256104bd20417c99dd82e52200bccee5e32678.jpg ]]
r/thankyourachel The video title is so obvious - the fact the study was even does tells you _everything_ you need to know about the present political system.
We seem to've reached a point in which the pessimists are saying "Dayum, things couldn't get any worse" and the optimists reply "Ahhh,,, sure they can"
My nieghborhood has the lowest voter turnout in my city: 13%. My neighbors believe it doesn't matter, we will get screwed no matter what. I hear this all the time. However, I do hear enthusiasm for Sen. Sanders!
Never never never stay home man. Vote 3rd party. That makes it so people notice them more. What they say more. And they will try to emulate them to get your vote. No vote is *ever* a wasted vote.
Showbiz for ugly people personal finance is tied to the economy regardless if it's not macroeconomics or microeconomics. The housing crash had to do with financial illiteracy which loan originators, Realtors and bankers took advantage of. Understanding how to manage your personal finances can lead to an individual making better choices when buying a home, car, paying for school and investing the right way. If people were better with their personal finance, they wouldn't get duped by sales people, academic advisors who are just there for a check and investors out for their commission.
So, wait-so the solutions here are things like giving these non-voters _more information_ within the current electoral process? That’s ludicrous. Gilens and Page in their 2014 study said this: “When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, *the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact* upon public policy.” I think these non-voters have a pretty good idea of what is _actually_ going on in the current system so, probably, the best way to engage them is to have candidates they can vote for who will _credibly_ work to unrig the system.
Our polling stations struggle to handle 40% turnout just imagine if we even had 60% turnout. The whole system would collapse and devolve into chaos. The system is designed for us to not vote.
I understand why these people feel as though their vote wouldn't matter - the "Democratic" debate a few nights ago showed that elites are not concerned with whose policies gather the most amount of support, and would rather choose the candidate themselves. The delegate system is flawed and autocratic, especially the super delegate portion of it. It should outrage everyone that their vote does not have a direct impact in decision making. And this isn't news for those of us who stay engaged - studies have confirmed that the USA functions as an oligarchy, where big money interests decide what policies are codified and enacted, and what aren't. However, it is incredibly disheartening to hear that the survey of non-voters shows that they consider immigration the top issue, and that at the same time Trade and Climate Change is not even mentioned (I hope it was an accidental omission by the guest speaker). Trade has eroded local manufacture across this country, saddling people from previously prosperous communities with poor living conditions and increasing debt. But they have also dismantled the economics of other nations. Look at Latin America: big private business has destroyed competitors and outsourced jobs, impoverishing the people of those countries. And that pushes them out of their homeland, in hopes of finding a better life for themselves and their children. Austerity is one of the main vehicles of immigration. If we do away with it, and incentivize other nations to do the same, the amount of work-refugees will diminish and be negligent. But Climate Change is so much worse when it comes to creating refugee crises and pushing people away. Increasingly severe climate catastrophes are destroying what little people have left. Millions are already on the move because of fully exhausted ground water, cities are planning to relocate from rising sea levels, whole island nations are sinking - all of these are causing mass movements across the world. TL;DR: If you care about immigration first and foremost, you should care about ending Austerity (home and abroad) and more importantly about the worsening Climate Catastrophe we're living through.
They dont believe they are informed. This is a huge problem. We have to make non biased information more available today so people know what to believe and csn form their own opinions.
I removed myself from the voter rolls in 2008 and haven't voted since. Why? Because voting in this country is a joke when there is effectively only one party and I didn't want to validate the process. Trump and Sanders have broken that mold. If Sanders wins the primary, I will register and vote for him. I have no delusions that Bernie can actually Bern it down but it's a step in the right direction.
I never voted because I know that my candidate, party will never win. I favor a 3rd party. It's either going to be a Democrat or a Republican that will win. In my state 99% of the time it's Democrats that will win. I'm only one person vs the 2 party system. So, I don't bother voting at all.
Ok, here's the thing. I've never actually voted. I'm a straight white male with a college education, and I watch politics closely and am more informed than anyone I know on the issues. But it takes a lot of time and effort to stay up to date on those issues, and literally nobody else I know stays up to date on those issues. For every 1 person who knows the candidate, there are 10,000 more who have no idea who are just voting basically at random, and another 100,000 who have been brainwashed by Fox News or MSNBC propaganda and are misinformed, and a million more who are just listening to whatever political ads they've seen on TV that happened to strike a chord with them. Part of the reason I'm well informed is because I don't see any political ads. This election cycle I've seen 1 ad for Tulsi Gabbard and 1 ad for Bloomberg. That's it. Their ads don't reach me, and that's half the reason I know what's going on. Being in a deeply red state, my vote is meaningless. The republican is always going to win. But more to the point, in 2018, Utah passed a ballot measure to legalize marijuana, and another to expand medicaid with federal funds from the ACA. Utah did not legalize marijuana, and they did not expand medicaid. Even when you win, it doesn't mean anything. Politicians do what they want to do, and even when they open the decisions up to democracy they ignore the results. This is not a democracy. Not even a little bit. I came to the conclusion when I was 12 years old that voting was useless, because politicians just lie and tell you whatever they think you want to hear, and then they don't even attempt to follow through on their "promises" once they're elected. How can you possibly choose who to vote for when you don't know either candidate and they're both just telling whatever lies that they think you want to hear with no intention of following through on anything they say? When I first started working, at 18 years old, the company I was working for implemented TPS (Toyota Production System). It's a "democratic" workplace process where the workers have more say and ownership over the way their plant is run. Allegedly. What this amounted to was having the boss come into meetings and blatantly and obviously try to guide the workers into suggesting what he wanted to do. Any time anyone suggested an idea that didn't originate from the boss, the boss immediately worked to get everyone else to vote against it, to shut it down before the idea could get any steam. There was no democracy. This was an obvious sham to try to get people to feel responsible for the way things were done so they would work harder to try to make it work, because they thought it was their idea. But no ideas were ever used except from management. And I quickly realized that this is our entire political system. They give us 2 candidates to pick from. We didn't choose these candidates. We don't know them. They are provided to us, from a list of approved candidates that were chosen by the powers that be. We then pick between them. We didn't choose those candidates. Oligarchs chose 2 candidates that they approved of, and we picked between them. I'm not allowed to go have a conversation with the candidates, to make sure I approve of them. At best I might be able to ask them a pre-approved question at a town hall that they'll respond to with a preplanned answer that is made for sound bytes and doesn't address my concerns in any way. Whoever we choose, they're going to do the exact same thing once they're in office, and we will have no say over how they run the country. But because we made the "choice", now we feel like we're responsible for what these candidates do, so we want to do anything we can to smooth things over and make that candidate's policies be successful. So now because ostensibly the majority of people voted for this candidate, the majority of people are tricked into feeling ownership of their policies, and they will go around defending the candidate they voted for, to make sure that the masses don't ever organize and rise up against a corrupt government. If one group of people is upset about policies, another group of approximately equal size is going to feel like they're responsible for those policies, and so they will take the first group getting upset as a personal attack. So as a movement forms on one side, a counter-movement forms on the other side to oppose them. No movement can ever really form against the government, because they are too busy fighting against the counter-movement that inevitably forms to oppose them. Therefore the politicians never have to worry about the people revolting. Therefore they never have any reason to care about the will of the people. The two parties have every reason to try to turn us against each other and make us hate each other, because the more we hate each other the less we can do to oppose our corrupt government. On top of that, there are so many levels of complexity in our voting system. So many steps where the results can be tampered with. Iowa made it clear that this tampering has been going on since the beginning of our election system. The app wasn't the problem in Iowa. The app didn't work properly, but the problem in Iowa is that trying to use that app revealed all the impropriety that has been going on since the beginning of the country. And you can bet that the same things are happening in other states. The whole delegate system and all the conventions are just levels of complexity that exist solely to allow the powers that be the opportunity to fine tune the results to their liking. Complexity is the enemy of democracy, and we have the most complex voting system in the world. All that said - I like Bernie Sanders. I still likely won't vote myself in this election for personal reasons. I wish I could, but it's just not going to be an option for me this time. But I donate to Bernie, and if I was ever going to vote, this would be the election. And I'm encouraging all of my friends who have never voted before to go out and vote this time. Bernie is a once in a lifetime opportunity. A candidate who will work for the people. And he has a real shot. We may never see this happen again. I hope he wins. I don't know how much one man can do against an ocean of corruption, but I'm looking forward to seeing him try.
You present a compelling and well thought out argument but it has flaws. For example take gun laws. You have 2 sides on the issue but they're not equal in size. One side I'll call pro gun is the minority is 30% of the people. Even though the other side (anti gun)has an overwhelming majority ,the 30% owns all the privately owned guns in the country. This number of guns is greater than the government's military. In this scenario the minority so chose to could theoretically try to circumvent the will of the majority. Let's hope we never come to that.
IT'S CALLED "UPTALKING". It's very popular among groups of females who are consensus building. Also it occurs in the natural cadence of Polynesian languages and so is more popular in countries such as New Zealand.
@@chipwalter4490 The linguistic term is rising intonation. Connie Chung nailed it in 1994 Up Talking with Connie Chung 1994 => th-cam.com/video/z756L_CkakU/w-d-xo.html It can be damn annoying, as Connie demonstrates.
They are trying to prevent it for sure but if you don't fight for democracy then we definitely will not get it and we are losing our rights as we speak.
This can be directly linked to not teaching civics in school anymore. People dont know how government works and dont appreciate just how lucky they are to have a right to vote.
Me and the majority of people I know who don't vote choose not to because of the electoral college. Since I don't vote the same way as the majority of my state, my vote essentially gets thrown away. I changed my philosophy on this after 2016.
A lot of non voters don't vote because they know that the parties don't give a crud about their interests and havent for decades. You have to prove to them that you can earn and keep their trust.
Most of the people in my family that are in my generation(millennials) have never voted and all of them are 25+ years. But that is changing this year, I’ve been on a campaign to motivate them to pay more attention to the political process and to get out and vote. So I’ve been calling them every day or every other day to talk about current events for about a year. Some of them are now starting to look into things for themselves and they have even brought things to my attention. At the moment I’m confident that I’m bringing 9 extra people to vote in the primaries in Missouri and it could be 11 but I still have work to do. We are all feeling the Bern btw.
I think perhaps fixing the part where it's rigged and both political parties are conservative/out of touch might help. "Somehow" broken? It is broken; I just vote anyway.
The electoral college also discourages voting because certain states are always red or always blue so it doesn't matter if you show up. With an election decided by popular vote instead of by state everyone's vote would count.
yes but your ballot will be considered SPOILED which is a protest vote that shows you were willing to come out to vote yet voted against all the candidates available... this is a stat that will be kept in the historical record x number dem x number repub x number spoiled ballot
Yep. My mom is one of them. No matter what I do to convince her she will not vote because she is convinced it's rigged. My mom is a very stubborn, no bs, tells it like it is person. She is a white, hs graduate, and a boomer. BERNIE2020!!✌❤😊
The concern about elections/politics not representing the will of the people is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The less people that vote, the less of a Democracy we have, and the less therefore politics is representative and responsive to the people. Having informed voters is crucial to having a healthy Democracy.
The electoral college has a lot to do with this as well. Lots of people that aren't in swing states don't bother voting; they don't see the point since their state will be a certain color regardless.
When a guest is introduced and they respond with something like "glad to be here" or anything at all, is there any possibility that Saagar won't say "absolutely"? I calculate the odds to be astronomical.
I’m one of those people. Rather I was. Voting Bernie this time and got my daughter on board. They cheat him I’m leaving Democratic Party. Bernie gave me someone to get excited about. First politician ever did.
Historically, I'm a non voter. The choices from both parties generally have been unappealing. Trump is forcing me to vote just to try my best to get him out of office.
Ive followed politics for 25+ years because its entertaining. Most of the time I do no vote because no candidate motivates me and I follow it closely. This year Yang gave me hope but that was then...
I'm not a yuge fan of, Andrew Yang, however, his Democracy Dollars program would certainly help bring out non-voters, as well as, making election days national and state holidays.
I don't always vote because I usually live in very blue cities, e.g. LA, NYC, in states that consistently vote blue. Therefore, it's a waste of my time to vote when my district often overwhelmingly votes for dems. If I lived in Ohio or Pennsylvania, then perhaps I would stand in line.
My partner won't vote early because he's afraid of the number of hands that touch it along the way. I think he's paranoid, but it's hard to know what the real risks are, and if the voting machines are really any safer.
If you are actually wondering about how to get people to take a more active role, you just need to get Civics education back in schools. You might not be aware of this, but Civics education was ceased. They are fed Economics instead, and Economics teaches them not to be politically engaged.
I dont think most people are educated enough in the candidates to vote. Asking people to read up on what candidates believe and do research then take time out of their busy lives to vote, when they dont really notice a change from president to president is a stretch. And I think its fine
Did they ask the nonvoters what would motivate them to vote? No, because they assume there is a problem with the voters and not with the candidates. Bernie motivates the people, which is why he is winning and everyone else is wondering why.
Is it all that surprising that women are a slight majority of non voters? They tend to be the primary caregivers of elderly parents and kids and if you have to wait in line for an hr+ to vote a kid's gonna be a) tough to keep entertained or b) you'll have to have another caregiver available.
People don't sit out. Vote 3rd party if you don't like what the Dems and Reps selected. We won't get any other choices if we don't vote and strengthen a third party rise to give us more choices.
If you want higher voter turnout, *CREATE A NEW PARTY: SOCIALLY MODERATE, ECONOMICALLY LEFT POPULIST, AND NATIONALIST ON FOREIGN POLICY, IMMIGRATION AND TRADE* You would turn out massive numbers and you would also win in a landslide. That is the political ethos of Americans, and sadly neither party represents this populist heterodoxy. One party is economically libertarian and socially moderate, the other party is economically neoliberal and socially far left. Why on Earth would these voters vote for either party?
There are so many things that turn people off from voting. Part is built into the U.S. Constitution thru the Electoral College where states with smaller populations have a disproportionate influence on the presidential election. Part is built into Federal regulations by not making the national election day either a weekend or a national holiday (but states that allow mail-in ballots helps to alleviate this hurdle to voting). Then there's gerrymanding which skews congressional voting districts to advantage whichever party has control over the state's redistricting procedures (which tends to be gerrymandered to favor the Republican party over the Democratic party but not exclusively - N. Carolina, Utah, Texas favoring Republicans and Maryland favoring the Democrats). Then there's voter ID and registration laws which makes it harder for poorer and/or homeless people who can't afford to keep current IDs and older voters that don't drive anymore to vote. Then there's the superdelegates in the Democratic primaries which was designed to give Establishment politicians control over the Democratic nominees. These are just the structural problems. In addition, there's the way we finance campaigns where someone with access to private money thru connections with the wealthy and the creation of SuperPACS makes money a corrupting influence on who gets elected. No surprise people are disillusioned with the American election system.
Is it just me or does Evette Alexander look like Sarah Connor from Terminator-1 ? "Hello, I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. May I speak to her please?"
Come on people. Take some responsibility. Read, learn, listen. I wish the young demographic realized what a juggernaut they are! More of them than any other generation! Choose your future, for God's sake.
Bernie had his own party, rig the audience with anti -Bernie voters. Before that debate, Bernie was close to Biden in South Carolina. Since that debate Biden's lead has increased. The reason was the moderators lost control purposely. Bernie doesn't get the nomination I will never vote for a Democrat or Republican. Dems are establishment, would prefer Trump before Bernie.
I have absolutely no problem handing Trump another four, if Dems try any funny business at the convention. I haven't voted for 18 years, and won't vote for any candidate who takes bribes from corporations. Far from apathetic, I send Bernie money every week.
I understand why people become disillusioned with the voting process. We have been faced with many poor choice elections over the 47 years that I have been eligible to vote. Sometimes we are forced to just vote for the least embarrassing candidate or the lesser of evils between the new person and the incumbent. Its been a long time since we have seen a good candidate like Bernie.
Not interested in politics? Well, politics will still shape your life. Whether u participate or not. People died to fight for the right to vote. I vote, that does not mean that I trust the system that can ignore/ suppress my vote by delegates. That's why I will vote for Bernie.
Voting Day should be a PAID NATIONAL HOLIDAY
the establishment on both sides actively participates in voter suppression, it would be beneficial as a society if it was a paid holiday, but they dont want certain demographics represented, I remember reading an article years ago about the lack of available public transit for potential voters of color in the south and how the voting place was too far for them to get to, so there was a program for busing people to the voting booths, but that is just one example of the strategy employed to keep certain voices from being heard.
In Australia you get a hot dog when you vote. That would be cool to have here. What’s more American than a hot dog?
nicksurfs1 Apple pie? But not by much.
Simple solution... Replace the day off status of Columbus Day in October to National Voting day in November. No loss of money for anyone. Win, Win.
We need a Constitutional Amendment making voting a right.
I never vote because of the same reason. But this year I am voting for Bernie. He's the only person I've ever seen run for president that I truly believe in
DudeLore same. If Bernie wasn’t running, I wouldn’t vote for president.
@@cggg490 welcome to the party!!!!
People like Bernie are rare, lets all hope this chance isn't wasted.
I applaud your effort. THANK YOU! I just wish the majority of traditionally nonvoting citizens would follow your lead and help overwhelm the system at the ballot box. Anybody who refuses to vote simply feeds the self-fulfilling assumption that elections don't matter. They CAN make a great difference (for the better), but for elections to actually reflect the will of the people, the people must actually express their will in great enough numbers to become undeniable and obvious. See you at the polls! Bernie 2020!
Thank you!
imo
Good vid.
My son has never voted because he sees them all as liars and crooks.
He said he'll register and vote for Sanders if he gets the nomination because-even tho he doesn't like all of Sanders' ideas-he thinks Bernie says what he means and means what he says.
My fingers are crossed.
imo
Sounds like you raised a good one, Charlie. Voting for Bernie in the primary is so important. If there's any chance you can express that to him and talk him into participating, he would get a voice in whether or not Bernie's on the ticket in November. Get on him! ✊
@@mandi8716 Thanks for your kind words, Mandi.
My son is very much like me in that pressure will turn him off.
Besides, he lives in Vegas!
@@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 I understand that. I'm just so glad we've all found a candidate we can trust. And Bernie crushed it in Nevada, so no harm, no foul, right?
@@mandi8716 Agreed and agreed!
Being a pessimistic geezer with little-to-no faith in the system, I'll breathe easier if/when Sanders actually gets the nomination.
If he wants to support Sanders, he absolutely needs to vote in your state's primary too!
I'm one of those 100 million. If the superdelegates give the nomination to anyone other the person with the most votes, I'll be staying home again.
But will you at least come out and vote for Bernie or whoever you like in the primary? If you like Bernie and we get him 1,991 delegates they can't take it from him and maybe as the head of the party he can get rid of this undemocratic system altogether.
@@PinkSakuraBunnie I already cast my vote for bernie in texas.
@Francisco III J Dy no he'll be thanking the DNC 🖕
That is the time to get out our yellow nests...Come on, people, if the steal ANOTHER election from us, surely this would be the time to fight back in earnest...
Vote from the rooftops
Hard to argue with non voters when you have super delegates that can erase their votes.
If non-voters really believe the system is rigged, then they should vote for Bernie as he is the only candidate who is going to fundamentally change the system for the working class.
I'm sure they are because Bernie is actively looking for them.
I whole heartedly agree with you. However, you must convince the non voters that Bernie will be able to effect the necessary changes.
@@brssing52 we did that in Nevada
That was my intention in 2016 but Bernie got screwed hopefully this go around I'll get to vote for him. I voted for Clinton out of a sense of loyalty to the Democratic party but seeing how the DNC operates that "Vote Blue No Matter Who" has no meaning to me.
Hard pass
They'll stay home alright.
UNLESS we elect BERNIE SANDERS!!!!
#BernieIsMyPresident
#BernieIsTHEIRPresident
#NotMeUs
Lol yes :)
I had that experience first hand canvassing for Bernie in Nevada, one case in particular, late on the last day of early voting, I met 2 ladies who said "I don't vote because it's all rigged anyway" When I said, we can beat the rigging by coming out in overwhelming numbers and told them what Bernie stands for, they literally got their keys, locked their house and went to go vote.
"They'll stay home (...) UNLESS we elect BERNIE SANDERS!!!!"
You mean, Sanders will build the 'wall' ?
If You didn't noticed, the silent majority doesn't just want 'universal medicare' - they also want a stop to _illegal immigration_ . They are not idealogues, like You (assumingly), but *pragmatists* .
@@christophmahler while the majority of Americans want M4A, (yes, even republicans) they also want a workable immigration policy and Sanders is the only one offering that as well
nice try though
@@Bluebelle51
"(...) a workable immigration policy (...)"
No, smartass.
02:40
*The survey mentioned explicitly 'the wall'* - while socialists want to increase illegal immigration, in the hope they would enlarge the client pool for their political machine.
The only thing that unites the nationalist working class with the socialist lower middle class is the *rejection of the neo-liberal establishment and it's political institutions* (e.g. 'rigged' primaries).
If You have news about _Sanders building the 'wall'_ , You shouldn't have held back.
If You got the impression that I oppose Sanders election - that is not the case. But anything as drastic as the 'wall' is the key to potential Trump voters - not because they are racists, but because they sense immigration as completely out of control. In time, it is not going to be any party that will advocate for hispanic interest, but the cartels.
I didn't vote in 2016 because both major parties offered horrible options. I was rooting for Bernie & the DNC, as well as the media screwing him, didn't encourage me to vote. This year, I made sure to get out to vote for Bernie in the primary which I wasn't even sure when or how all this pre-election stuff worked previously. But I am committed to voting for Bernie.
That Russia flag in the beginning was the smartest use of that joke so far.
rofl... its priceless...
One of the more formative moments in my life was when I spoke to an Arizona House member to ask her how she thought she would get away with some egregious policy and she said to me, she gave out a cynical laugh and then said, “Poor people don’t vote." At first it was like a gut punch but from that moment on I made sure to talk about it and to have more people vote. Voting day is the day when the CEO and the average worker are equal, one vote each. But you have to use it, you have to show up, you have to vote. For those that don’t think a vote has value, look at the millions that special interests are willing to pump into an election to persuade one vote? It’s a lot. That’s how more voters need to look at it. If you don’t vote, if your issue group doesn’t vote, you will get screwed. That is the way the system works.
Sorry Hon... I hope Sanders doesn't have them steal it from him as they have planned since 2016, however they will in fact do just that... they like their Giant Orange Psycho Clown... he makes them all tons of $$$ & is way too stupid to do anything that they can't control in order to ensure their long term plans continue... he is as much a slave to the establishment as everyone else...
One day hopefully everyone will understand that the BEST people in America will SUFFER rather than SAY AMEN to:
1. Abortion
2. Gay Marriage
3. Bombing Civilian Populations
4. DRONE LYNCHING
5. The Unconstitutional currency = DEBT SLAVERY
6. Corporofascism
7. Making an equivalency between CHRISTianity & the DENIAL of Christ aka slaughtering palestinians for the THEOCRATIC FICTION of israehell
8. Police Surveillance State & Empire
9. Global government IMF SDR PetroDollar etc etc
10. Plantation prison meat warehouse system for profit
11. Extinguishment of A PRIORI GOD endowed RIGHTS by: fictional power/ abuse of power/expansion of power
12. FAILURE to uphold REMEDY for EVERY GOD endowed RIGHT extinguishment
AND that is the reason a lot of people REFUSE to vote... casting a vote means you are AGREEING with the above:
NO SALE!
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look at the millions who've lost their lives for that right. And if it's SUBVERTED by the DNC in Milwaukee we must be ready to *Physically Fight* in Defense of all of the sacrifices made for our right to vote... We owe it to past and future generations.
Sorry friend, but nobody needs to vote. And the reason poor people don't vote, is because it isn't doing anything for them. So they found better things to do, working with things they can control.
Just because those interests pump all their money, effort etc, into the facade, doesn't mean our votes have any value. I'm sorry friend, but our votes have no power. So I will continue to never vote in life, and remain unregistered.
Voting in Brazil (where I’m originally from) is on a Sunday. I couldn’t believe when I moved to the US and found out voting is on a weekday and it isn’t even a holiday... what a way to disenfranchise people!
Voting day, endless early voting, mail in absentee voting and all you mention is voting on Sunday. Whose disenfranchising voters now?
The establishment has intentionally down-played the importance of political awareness, activism, and participation for decades because they don't want to be challenged. And the system is designed to make it difficult for poor, minority, and working class communities to vote (lack of polling places, elections held solely on work days with minimal early or absentee voting allowed in many states).
Lol, that makes no sense though. Why would they not want you involved, and profiting them further?
Have you ever considered that them pretending they don't want you to be involved, is just a ploy to trick you into getting involved?
Thanks!
The non voters will vote for bernie , there finally is a candidate worthy of faith.
Sorry Hon... I hope Sanders doesn't have them steal it from him as they have planned since 2016, however they will in fact do just that... they like their Giant Orange Psycho Clown... he makes them all tons of $$$ & is way too stupid to do anything that they can't control in order to ensure their long term plans continue... he is as much a slave to the establishment as everyone else...
One day hopefully everyone will understand that the BEST people in America will SUFFER rather than SAY AMEN to:
1. Abortion
2. Gay Marriage
3. Bombing Civilian Populations
4. DRONE LYNCHING
5. The Unconstitutional currency = DEBT SLAVERY
6. Corporofascism
7. Making an equivalency between CHRISTianity & the DENIAL of Christ aka slaughtering palestinians for the THEOCRATIC FICTION of israehell
8. Police Surveillance State & Empire
9. Global government IMF SDR PetroDollar etc etc
10. Plantation prison meat warehouse system for profit
11. Extinguishment of A PRIORI GOD endowed RIGHTS by: fictional power/ abuse of power/expansion of power
12. FAILURE to uphold REMEDY for EVERY GOD endowed RIGHT extinguishment
AND that is the reason a lot of people REFUSE to vote... casting a vote means you are AGREEING with the above:
NO SALE!
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r/thankyourachel
The video title is so obvious - the fact the study was even does tells you _everything_ you need to know about the present political system.
Why does the media always refer to non-voters as "staying home," when more often they are actually staying at work?
I also am concerned that my vote may not be counted accurately, but if I don’t vote I’m 100% sure my vote won’t count.
We seem to've reached a point in which the pessimists are saying "Dayum, things couldn't get any worse" and the optimists reply "Ahhh,,, sure they can"
The System Is Rigged !!
My nieghborhood has the lowest voter turnout in my city: 13%. My neighbors believe it doesn't matter, we will get screwed no matter what. I hear this all the time. However, I do hear enthusiasm for Sen. Sanders!
I stayed home in 16. Bernie got cheated
teebone 21 same
you coulda at least went and voted for Jill Stein. Don't you like the Green New Deal?
Never never never stay home man. Vote 3rd party. That makes it so people notice them more. What they say more. And they will try to emulate them to get your vote. No vote is *ever* a wasted vote.
Thank you for this much-needed segment
Rising is such a great show. Excellent, pithy reporting that matters.
amazing content
It's all by design.
They don't teach us about taxation, personal finance and civics in school for a reason.
Showbiz for ugly people personal finance is tied to the economy regardless if it's not macroeconomics or microeconomics. The housing crash had to do with financial illiteracy which loan originators, Realtors and bankers took advantage of.
Understanding how to manage your personal finances can lead to an individual making better choices when buying a home, car, paying for school and investing the right way. If people were better with their personal finance, they wouldn't get duped by sales people, academic advisors who are just there for a check and investors out for their commission.
This was a really informative discussion. We really need to try and reach out to these people.
Study indicates non-voters may not vote. ** Mind Blown! **
So, wait-so the solutions here are things like giving these non-voters _more information_ within the current electoral process? That’s ludicrous.
Gilens and Page in their 2014 study said this:
“When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, *the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact* upon public policy.”
I think these non-voters have a pretty good idea of what is _actually_ going on in the current system so, probably, the best way to engage them is to have candidates they can vote for who will _credibly_ work to unrig the system.
Our polling stations struggle to handle 40% turnout just imagine if we even had 60% turnout. The whole system would collapse and devolve into chaos. The system is designed for us to not vote.
I understand why these people feel as though their vote wouldn't matter - the "Democratic" debate a few nights ago showed that elites are not concerned with whose policies gather the most amount of support, and would rather choose the candidate themselves. The delegate system is flawed and autocratic, especially the super delegate portion of it. It should outrage everyone that their vote does not have a direct impact in decision making. And this isn't news for those of us who stay engaged - studies have confirmed that the USA functions as an oligarchy, where big money interests decide what policies are codified and enacted, and what aren't.
However, it is incredibly disheartening to hear that the survey of non-voters shows that they consider immigration the top issue, and that at the same time Trade and Climate Change is not even mentioned (I hope it was an accidental omission by the guest speaker). Trade has eroded local manufacture across this country, saddling people from previously prosperous communities with poor living conditions and increasing debt. But they have also dismantled the economics of other nations. Look at Latin America: big private business has destroyed competitors and outsourced jobs, impoverishing the people of those countries. And that pushes them out of their homeland, in hopes of finding a better life for themselves and their children. Austerity is one of the main vehicles of immigration. If we do away with it, and incentivize other nations to do the same, the amount of work-refugees will diminish and be negligent.
But Climate Change is so much worse when it comes to creating refugee crises and pushing people away. Increasingly severe climate catastrophes are destroying what little people have left. Millions are already on the move because of fully exhausted ground water, cities are planning to relocate from rising sea levels, whole island nations are sinking - all of these are causing mass movements across the world.
TL;DR: If you care about immigration first and foremost, you should care about ending Austerity (home and abroad) and more importantly about the worsening Climate Catastrophe we're living through.
Australia has mandatory voting to deal with that exact reason.
They dont believe they are informed. This is a huge problem. We have to make non biased information more available today so people know what to believe and csn form their own opinions.
It is rigged. It's obvious.
I removed myself from the voter rolls in 2008 and haven't voted since. Why? Because voting in this country is a joke when there is effectively only one party and I didn't want to validate the process. Trump and Sanders have broken that mold. If Sanders wins the primary, I will register and vote for him. I have no delusions that Bernie can actually Bern it down but it's a step in the right direction.
I never voted because I know that my candidate, party will never win. I favor a 3rd party. It's either going to be a Democrat or a Republican that will win. In my state 99% of the time it's Democrats that will win. I'm only one person vs the 2 party system. So, I don't bother voting at all.
nice video
Ok, here's the thing. I've never actually voted. I'm a straight white male with a college education, and I watch politics closely and am more informed than anyone I know on the issues. But it takes a lot of time and effort to stay up to date on those issues, and literally nobody else I know stays up to date on those issues. For every 1 person who knows the candidate, there are 10,000 more who have no idea who are just voting basically at random, and another 100,000 who have been brainwashed by Fox News or MSNBC propaganda and are misinformed, and a million more who are just listening to whatever political ads they've seen on TV that happened to strike a chord with them. Part of the reason I'm well informed is because I don't see any political ads. This election cycle I've seen 1 ad for Tulsi Gabbard and 1 ad for Bloomberg. That's it. Their ads don't reach me, and that's half the reason I know what's going on.
Being in a deeply red state, my vote is meaningless. The republican is always going to win. But more to the point, in 2018, Utah passed a ballot measure to legalize marijuana, and another to expand medicaid with federal funds from the ACA. Utah did not legalize marijuana, and they did not expand medicaid. Even when you win, it doesn't mean anything. Politicians do what they want to do, and even when they open the decisions up to democracy they ignore the results.
This is not a democracy. Not even a little bit.
I came to the conclusion when I was 12 years old that voting was useless, because politicians just lie and tell you whatever they think you want to hear, and then they don't even attempt to follow through on their "promises" once they're elected. How can you possibly choose who to vote for when you don't know either candidate and they're both just telling whatever lies that they think you want to hear with no intention of following through on anything they say?
When I first started working, at 18 years old, the company I was working for implemented TPS (Toyota Production System). It's a "democratic" workplace process where the workers have more say and ownership over the way their plant is run. Allegedly. What this amounted to was having the boss come into meetings and blatantly and obviously try to guide the workers into suggesting what he wanted to do. Any time anyone suggested an idea that didn't originate from the boss, the boss immediately worked to get everyone else to vote against it, to shut it down before the idea could get any steam. There was no democracy. This was an obvious sham to try to get people to feel responsible for the way things were done so they would work harder to try to make it work, because they thought it was their idea. But no ideas were ever used except from management.
And I quickly realized that this is our entire political system.
They give us 2 candidates to pick from. We didn't choose these candidates. We don't know them. They are provided to us, from a list of approved candidates that were chosen by the powers that be. We then pick between them. We didn't choose those candidates. Oligarchs chose 2 candidates that they approved of, and we picked between them. I'm not allowed to go have a conversation with the candidates, to make sure I approve of them. At best I might be able to ask them a pre-approved question at a town hall that they'll respond to with a preplanned answer that is made for sound bytes and doesn't address my concerns in any way.
Whoever we choose, they're going to do the exact same thing once they're in office, and we will have no say over how they run the country. But because we made the "choice", now we feel like we're responsible for what these candidates do, so we want to do anything we can to smooth things over and make that candidate's policies be successful.
So now because ostensibly the majority of people voted for this candidate, the majority of people are tricked into feeling ownership of their policies, and they will go around defending the candidate they voted for, to make sure that the masses don't ever organize and rise up against a corrupt government.
If one group of people is upset about policies, another group of approximately equal size is going to feel like they're responsible for those policies, and so they will take the first group getting upset as a personal attack. So as a movement forms on one side, a counter-movement forms on the other side to oppose them. No movement can ever really form against the government, because they are too busy fighting against the counter-movement that inevitably forms to oppose them. Therefore the politicians never have to worry about the people revolting. Therefore they never have any reason to care about the will of the people.
The two parties have every reason to try to turn us against each other and make us hate each other, because the more we hate each other the less we can do to oppose our corrupt government.
On top of that, there are so many levels of complexity in our voting system. So many steps where the results can be tampered with. Iowa made it clear that this tampering has been going on since the beginning of our election system.
The app wasn't the problem in Iowa. The app didn't work properly, but the problem in Iowa is that trying to use that app revealed all the impropriety that has been going on since the beginning of the country. And you can bet that the same things are happening in other states. The whole delegate system and all the conventions are just levels of complexity that exist solely to allow the powers that be the opportunity to fine tune the results to their liking.
Complexity is the enemy of democracy, and we have the most complex voting system in the world.
All that said - I like Bernie Sanders. I still likely won't vote myself in this election for personal reasons. I wish I could, but it's just not going to be an option for me this time. But I donate to Bernie, and if I was ever going to vote, this would be the election. And I'm encouraging all of my friends who have never voted before to go out and vote this time.
Bernie is a once in a lifetime opportunity. A candidate who will work for the people. And he has a real shot. We may never see this happen again. I hope he wins.
I don't know how much one man can do against an ocean of corruption, but I'm looking forward to seeing him try.
A misinformed voter should not vote and if you're listening to one side of an argument, you are misinformed.
You present a compelling and well thought out argument but it has flaws. For example take gun laws. You have 2 sides on the issue but they're not equal in size. One side I'll call pro gun is the minority is 30% of the people. Even though the other side (anti gun)has an overwhelming majority ,the 30% owns all the privately owned guns in the country. This number of guns is greater than the government's military. In this scenario the minority so chose to could theoretically try to circumvent the will of the majority. Let's hope we never come to that.
They should make it so if you DON'T vote you'll get jury duty! Participate in one way or another!
I always wonder why? When some people talk? They end a phrase? With an upward inflection? As if it's a question?
IT'S CALLED "UPTALKING". It's very popular among groups of females who are consensus building. Also it occurs in the natural cadence of Polynesian languages and so is more popular in countries such as New Zealand.
@@chipwalter4490
The linguistic term is rising intonation.
Connie Chung nailed it in 1994
Up Talking with Connie Chung 1994
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It can be damn annoying, as Connie demonstrates.
My brother thinks like this. He's doesn't think the 1% will allow democracy. He's wrong.
Jeremy Gregorio we can make democracy happen, right now it is not that way
America isn’t a democracy... That’s an illusion. So, the elites are not killing democracy, they are preventing it.
They are trying to prevent it for sure but if you don't fight for democracy then we definitely will not get it and we are losing our rights as we speak.
But Russia...
This can be directly linked to not teaching civics in school anymore. People dont know how government works and dont appreciate just how lucky they are to have a right to vote.
thanks for covering this
Me and the majority of people I know who don't vote choose not to because of the electoral college. Since I don't vote the same way as the majority of my state, my vote essentially gets thrown away. I changed my philosophy on this after 2016.
A lot of non voters don't vote because they know that the parties don't give a crud about their interests and havent for decades. You have to prove to them that you can earn and keep their trust.
Most of the people in my family that are in my generation(millennials) have never voted and all of them are 25+ years. But that is changing this year, I’ve been on a campaign to motivate them to pay more attention to the political process and to get out and vote. So I’ve been calling them every day or every other day to talk about current events for about a year. Some of them are now starting to look into things for themselves and they have even brought things to my attention. At the moment I’m confident that I’m bringing 9 extra people to vote in the primaries in Missouri and it could be 11 but I still have work to do.
We are all feeling the Bern btw.
I think perhaps fixing the part where it's rigged and both political parties are conservative/out of touch might help.
"Somehow" broken? It is broken; I just vote anyway.
Don't stay home.. VOTE !!
The electoral college also discourages voting because certain states are always red or always blue so it doesn't matter if you show up. With an election decided by popular vote instead of by state everyone's vote would count.
This last go around I wrote in KODOS "Twirling towards freedom"
Even if the super delegates steal the nomination, can't we just write in Bernie?
yes but your ballot will be considered SPOILED which is a protest vote that shows you were willing to come out to vote yet voted against all the candidates available... this is a stat that will be kept in the historical record x number dem x number repub x number spoiled ballot
Two words. 'Paper ballots '.
Yep. My mom is one of them. No matter what I do to convince her she will not vote because she is convinced it's rigged. My mom is a very stubborn, no bs, tells it like it is person. She is a white, hs graduate, and a boomer.
BERNIE2020!!✌❤😊
The concern about elections/politics not representing the will of the people is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The less people that vote, the less of a Democracy we have, and the less therefore politics is representative and responsive to the people. Having informed voters is crucial to having a healthy Democracy.
The electoral college has a lot to do with this as well. Lots of people that aren't in swing states don't bother voting; they don't see the point since their state will be a certain color regardless.
somebody needs to come up with a buddy system so these voters go to the ballot
One of the two parties would be aligned with public opinion if the system wasn't rigged
is that Ed Harris voice?
When a guest is introduced and they respond with something like "glad to be here" or anything at all, is there any possibility that Saagar won't say "absolutely"? I calculate the odds to be astronomical.
I’m one of those people. Rather I was. Voting Bernie this time and got my daughter on board. They cheat him I’m leaving Democratic Party. Bernie gave me someone to get excited about. First politician ever did.
Study: non-voters not likely to vote. Now gimme money!!!
Anyone else getting some serious Linda Hamilton vibes from Evette?
Historically, I'm a non voter. The choices from both parties generally have been unappealing. Trump is forcing me to vote just to try my best to get him out of office.
link to the study??
this woman blinks so much
Mike could just pay them all
Congress gets paid to vote. The Supreme Court is paid to vote. American citizens should be paid to vote too. Open your eyes, it's an important job!
Ive followed politics for 25+ years because its entertaining. Most of the time I do no vote because no candidate motivates me and I follow it closely. This year Yang gave me hope but that was then...
Her voice is annoying. But it's a voice of reason! Spot on!
I voted for the antiwar candidate.
Was that Ed Harris's voice?
Economically populist ... Socially Conseervative. THAT'S ME... nice to know I WASn'T all alone all this time!
Cant miss work...voting is difficult. make it a public holiday.
I'm not a yuge fan of, Andrew Yang, however, his Democracy Dollars program would certainly help bring out non-voters, as well as, making election days national and state holidays.
Bloomberg asked him to be VP. Yang is a corporatist neo-liberal... but you know... he's Asian, so IDENTITY POLITICS FTW!
I don't always vote because I usually live in very blue cities, e.g. LA, NYC, in states that consistently vote blue. Therefore, it's a waste of my time to vote when my district often overwhelmingly votes for dems. If I lived in Ohio or Pennsylvania, then perhaps I would stand in line.
My partner won't vote early because he's afraid of the number of hands that touch it along the way. I think he's paranoid, but it's hard to know what the real risks are, and if the voting machines are really any safer.
If you are actually wondering about how to get people to take a more active role, you just need to get Civics education back in schools.
You might not be aware of this, but Civics education was ceased. They are fed Economics instead, and Economics teaches them not to be politically engaged.
the blinking is distracting
I dont think most people are educated enough in the candidates to vote. Asking people to read up on what candidates believe and do research then take time out of their busy lives to vote, when they dont really notice a change from president to president is a stretch. And I think its fine
I know how we can get more non voters to vote rig both primaries
Did they ask the nonvoters what would motivate them to vote?
No, because they assume there is a problem with the voters and not with the candidates.
Bernie motivates the people, which is why he is winning and everyone else is wondering why.
I thought that was common knowledge why people don't vote.... wow...
Is it all that surprising that women are a slight majority of non voters? They tend to be the primary caregivers of elderly parents and kids and if you have to wait in line for an hr+ to vote a kid's gonna be a) tough to keep entertained or b) you'll have to have another caregiver available.
Immigration is important but why is it the very top of these peoples list, the economy is not working for over 50% of the country.
Hell, even illegals got to vote in San Francisco.
That's why here in the EU we have more then 2 party. More parties more people get involved.
@@GonzoJohnny 🌹🌹🌹
Anyone else notice the graph of how many Americans voted for trump vs Clinton vs no one, it made the Russian flag?
People don't sit out. Vote 3rd party if you don't like what the Dems and Reps selected. We won't get any other choices if we don't vote and strengthen a third party rise to give us more choices.
If you want higher voter turnout, *CREATE A NEW PARTY: SOCIALLY MODERATE, ECONOMICALLY LEFT POPULIST, AND NATIONALIST ON FOREIGN POLICY, IMMIGRATION AND TRADE* You would turn out massive numbers and you would also win in a landslide. That is the political ethos of Americans, and sadly neither party represents this populist heterodoxy. One party is economically libertarian and socially moderate, the other party is economically neoliberal and socially far left. Why on Earth would these voters vote for either party?
I mean I did not vote because I could not care enough about either candidate.
There are so many things that turn people off from voting. Part is built into the U.S. Constitution thru the Electoral College where states with smaller populations have a disproportionate influence on the presidential election. Part is built into Federal regulations by not making the national election day either a weekend or a national holiday (but states that allow mail-in ballots helps to alleviate this hurdle to voting). Then there's gerrymanding which skews congressional voting districts to advantage whichever party has control over the state's redistricting procedures (which tends to be gerrymandered to favor the Republican party over the Democratic party but not exclusively - N. Carolina, Utah, Texas favoring Republicans and Maryland favoring the Democrats). Then there's voter ID and registration laws which makes it harder for poorer and/or homeless people who can't afford to keep current IDs and older voters that don't drive anymore to vote. Then there's the superdelegates in the Democratic primaries which was designed to give Establishment politicians control over the Democratic nominees. These are just the structural problems.
In addition, there's the way we finance campaigns where someone with access to private money thru connections with the wealthy and the creation of SuperPACS makes money a corrupting influence on who gets elected. No surprise people are disillusioned with the American election system.
Is it just me or does Evette Alexander look like Sarah Connor from Terminator-1 ?
"Hello, I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. May I speak to her please?"
I would say the first place to start would be to actually have fair elections.
Come on people. Take some responsibility. Read, learn, listen. I wish the young demographic realized what a juggernaut they are! More of them than any other generation! Choose your future, for God's sake.
Bernie had his own party, rig the audience with anti -Bernie voters. Before that debate, Bernie was close to Biden in South Carolina. Since that debate Biden's lead has increased. The reason was the moderators lost control purposely. Bernie doesn't get the nomination I will never vote for a Democrat or Republican. Dems are establishment, would prefer Trump before Bernie.
I have absolutely no problem handing Trump another four, if Dems try any funny business at the convention. I haven't voted for 18 years, and won't vote for any candidate who takes bribes from corporations. Far from apathetic, I send Bernie money every week.
0:11 lol, did they just paint US in a Russian flag?
It was a funny distraction from the topic
I understand why people become disillusioned with the voting process. We have been faced with many poor choice elections over the 47 years that I have been eligible to vote. Sometimes we are forced to just vote for the least embarrassing candidate or the lesser of evils between the new person and the incumbent.
Its been a long time since we have seen a good candidate like Bernie.
Not interested in politics? Well, politics will still shape your life. Whether u participate or not. People died to fight for the right to vote. I vote, that does not mean that I trust the system that can ignore/ suppress my vote by delegates. That's why I will vote for Bernie.
yeah rigged but bernie must win