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In reply to the discussion: Please understand that this is why we lost. [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I have been bitching for 4 years, ever since Heritage Care and the Bush/Obama tax cuts. I still vote straight ticket. But I knew after the first two years of the president's term that he and the rest of the DC dems had no interest at all in making the 2008 voting bloc permanent. You are exactly right. You and I vote knowing full well that nothing of import is going to change. Millions of Americans have more integrity and/or desperation than we do - they realize the situation is absolutely hopeless and can't bring themselves to cast a meaningless vote just for show. The really stupid ones are of course the Hate Radio/Fox News addicts, who actually believe that voting for Mitc McConnell or the crazy lady in Iowa is going to save them from ISIS/socialism/whatever. But how can we fault the ones who believe correctly that there vote is useless?