@Discussing1A
Discussing 1A
@Discussing1A · 2:02

Nearly 100,000,000 eligible Americans didn’t vote in 2016.

article image placeholderWhy Millions Of Eligible Americans Don't Vote : 1A
I'll put the link on the next swell here. But what are your thoughts about why people don't vote? Are you a voter and was there a time that you didn't vote? Are people in your family not voting? This is about understanding our rights as voters in this country and digging into the reasons why people don't think it's their right to vote or their reason. What are the reasons not to vote?

Here’s the 1A episode we’re discussing. #NPR #1A Let’s keep talking! https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912001234/why-millions-of-eligible-americans-

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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:32
Hey, Deborah, I'm really excited to talk about this episode. I thought it was a really important one, considering everything that is happening. And one thing that I found really remarkable was how many of the callers actually don't vote and they don't vote, not because they're lazy or because they are uninterested in politics. It's actually quite the opposite. It's because they are completely disillusioned by what's happening. And they're interested in politics
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 3:08

1 billion dollars in referendums and my district didn't show up to vote.

And those down ballot people, the soil and water controversy, the judges, you get there and there's 30 things and a lot of people just don't really care or have the time to go and research that then the last two points that really struck a chord with me were gerrymandering. I think it's very real
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@Neopatriarch
Robert K
@Neopatriarch · 3:45

Thank you for not voting. #politics #voting

The biggest thing is that when you vote, it changes something in your head. You've become part of this bigger thing that you really have no control over. And in your mind, you've committed to following the winner. That's the way democracy works. And when it stops working that way, you don't have democracy anymore. Anyway
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:39

#voting #complexity 🙏🌱 @Neopatriarch

I think that's one of the reasons that they spoke of in the radio show. And I appreciate your voice in this conversation. It's such a difficult to have if we don't keep our ears open to the complexity of it. And you've added to that complexity. So I really appreciate your voice here
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:10

Hoping to see rank choice voting in my lifetime

And they all happen to be young men who are just incredibly frustrated with the system at large, but that are swayed into voting once they have conversations with more than one person who explains why they're not voting is hurtful to them being maybe in a more vulnerable position due to some of the policies and things like that that could be impacted by them not voting, something that hasn't come up in this conversation yet that I really liked that was mentioned in the One A episode was one of the callers who called in and talked about the voting age being lowered to 16 because it's just completely unfair that taxation without representation can occur
@Neopatriarch
Robert K
@Neopatriarch · 5:00

An attempt to reply to @DBPardes #freedomworks

But not only didn't it make those changes, it's not set up to make those changes. You said we need to move this country forward. What does that mean? Does it mean in the direction of one party or in the direction of the other party? Because you're probably not in both parties. So you'd be unhappy with one and happier with the other. And yes, there are some third parties, but they don't get a footing
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 4:47

@Neopatriarch

If this disease were to spread in your workforce, the productivity of your workforce will significantly fall. There's a significant percentage of people who are reporting this. They are the long haulers, and these are not just the old people, these are very young, fit people. The other thing is, there's a ton of research that's come out that shows that people who get covered, even if Asymptomatic develop inflammation of the heart and vascular systems
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@Neopatriarch
Robert K
@Neopatriarch · 2:49

@sudha sorry about the sounds quality. #freedom #covid

Where are you going to go to work if you're going to open your business as far as governments? If we're talking about the US government, which is based on the Constitution, the thing to remember is its sole job is to protect our liberties, not protect our liberties unless there's a sickness. Now, I believe that all transactions between people should be voluntary. So that means there shouldn't be any force or coercion. Like I said before, good ideas don't need force
@Neopatriarch
Robert K
@Neopatriarch · 3:01

@DBPardes have we moved foreward?

So all of the things that we voted to move forward on, at least in this one category, nothing's changed. It continues to move on. And these things were all part of even before Trump, you can watch the videos of all of the people on the other side who wanted a wall or a barrier. They may not have called it a wall, but it goes on. And this is what I'm talking about in terms of voting
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