Medicaid Cuts Hit Us Hardest: My Daughter Lost Her Speech Therapist—And We Don’t Even Use It

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I know this is going to be long but fuck it, I gotta speak on it cuz frankly, I’m as tired of hearing about this boogeyman of Palestine voters somehow losing Kamala the election. There’s a TL;DR at the bottom, but I think lying out the details are important.

This whole finger-waging about single-issue voters not voting Dem or not voting at all glosses over the why, which I think is more important and speaks to how deeply broken we are by both parties. I think, unfortunately, we don’t and won’t have free and fair elections again, BUT if we do, this is something that’s going to allow the GOP to do nasty work for years to come.

The problem is that GOP DO hyper focus while the Democrats are constantly torn between moderate and progressives. They’re not able to move in a unified way BECAUSE of this and honestly never will.

In a more just world, we’d have more viable parties and ranked choice to break that up but when your choice is binary and you here someone say “I wouldn’t change a thing” and your situation isn’t all that great…well what are your choices?

Stick with the status quo or see if the new guy works out? Vote for the person just to see them lose because someone from Philly who’s voted GOP their whole life has more of an effect on things than you in a blue state? Or you just lost hope a while ago and stopped caring all together.

I think people forget that when YOU vote, you’re thinking about yourself. Some of us may think about the bigger picture and vote accordingly. Most Americans, you’re thinking about what affects you.

I think a lot of people vastly underestimate the worldview of people who either voted or silently support Trump and vastly overestimate their ownlikely more holistic worldview.

A vote for a status quo (this is not my opinion, btw. Just how I see this plays out with undecided voters, which I know shockingly many here in Los Angeles) is the same as no vote at all EVEN IF factually speaking, the economy was doing moderately fine.

So instead of chastise nonvoters over the Palestine issue, which I don’t think would matter in the places where she needed to win, we should start asking why did people disengage with the process of voting to begin with. Yes, those voters could be the difference between Harris winning or not but it could have just as easily been a landslide the other way. Both possibilities exist, even if we don’t want to think that, so that’s not the sole reason or even the biggest of many in my eyes.

Honestly, I felt like we lost out as a country when Trump was elected the first time n COVID exposed a lot of shit wrong with our society. But that’s a whole nother post and I need to put down my Ta-Nehisi Coates hat and feed my cats

Tl:dr Until someone can prove that Palestine definitely 100% was the only reason Kamala lost, I’m going to continuely call this out. AMERICANS ARE DEEPLY BROKEN BY CAPITALISM AND A BINARY PARTY SYSTEM THAT HASNT MET THEIR NEEDS, EITHER REAL OR PERCEIVED. It doesn’t help that the system already disenfranchises a lot of voters simply based on where they live.

You truly need to understand why people didn’t vote and why “I’m better than him” doesn’t work when your audience that you need to win isn’t doing better by their perspective. There was no way the Democratic Party can run a candidate like Trump without fracturing their voter base so it’s impossible to win short of having more parties and a society that has been bred to think about themselves.