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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
They can do whatever they want because they know they won't get voted out where it matters, in the senate/house. Democrats just don't vote in midterms, and those that do are easy to segregate into obscurity by the Republicans who control districting. It'll get even worse now with Donny at the head taking all of the political headlines, leaving the rest of the GOP to chop up districts to their hearts content without anyone paying attention
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I feel like if they start gutting social security and medicare, it'll affect a lot of those people who do vote every single time.
Also there are a ton of people who voted in this election for Donald Trump who have never voted before, or who haven't voted in a very long time. Those are also people who aren't going to vote in the mid-terms. Especially when it starts to dawn on them that Trump isn't bringing back coal, he isn't bringing back manufacturing jobs, he isn't bringing back the steel mills.
Meanwhile I think that finally, hopefully, this was a wake-up call to younger voters, to non-white voters. Among people I know, (many people of color, many from the LGBT community, etc) there was a day of sadness, just pure despondency, but those that I know who voted against Trump? Today they were angry. They were determined. I can only hope that this kind of determination will stand. Sometimes when pushed into a corner, people finally fight back. I have to believe that this is the case, otherwise I just don't know how to deal with living in this country.