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kentuck

(111,106 posts)
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 10:51 AM Aug 2018

Vote As If Your Lives Depended On It

Is it possible to communicate with people in today's political reality?

Is it possible to express the seriousness of the situation we are in?

Can people be reached with a bumper-sticker slogan?

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Vote As If Your Lives Depended On It (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2018 OP
Are you speaking to moderates, empedocles Aug 2018 #1
I'm voting because our lives, literally, depend on it! ananda Aug 2018 #2
Yep. Wanna do SOMETHING about the abomination? VOTE. dalton99a Aug 2018 #3
Always do, because I have learned that voting gives me a basis for my opinion. ffr Aug 2018 #4
Here's my column on just this topic WhiteTara Aug 2018 #5
Vote on November 6 ! Sinistrous Aug 2018 #6

ffr

(22,671 posts)
4. Always do, because I have learned that voting gives me a basis for my opinion.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 11:43 AM
Aug 2018

Like our nation's challenge to reach the moon, we can do those other things too while in pursuit of that goal. We must resist and motivate others in this traditional low-turnout midterm election.

Cast your vote for any democrat over any conseяvative republicon.

WhiteTara

(29,719 posts)
5. Here's my column on just this topic
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 12:04 PM
Aug 2018

Free Parking August 15 2018

http://eureka.news/free-parking-44/

“When the rain comes, it don’t fall on one man’s house.” Bob Marley

Follow me down memory lane to 1996 when the Democratic slogan was Bridge to the 21st Century. Al Gore followed with Prosperity and Progress in 2000. We, as a country, had money in the bank, our debt was paid down and scheduled to be paid in full in a few years, we had lived through a relatively peaceful eight years and were being diligent about our national security.

Gore was intently focused on future technology and education for the new Green Society of solar and wind technologies, phasing out planet-killing coal and oil. Yes, we were going to avert the climate crisis we are now experiencing, and keep building a society that would provide prosperity for all.

But here we are today, speeding down the Highway to Hell. A stolen election here, a stolen election there and pretty soon you have a fascist government run for the benefit of corporate owners and their cronies, demanding the rest of us grovel and fight for scraps dropped on the ground.

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