2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Blaming Sanders: Why Democratic Party Unity is Officially Impossible [View all]Tal Vez
(660 posts)If that's true, I know something about this area. I grew up poor and pretty ignorant. I was uneducated and married at 19 (this was in the 1960's) and we had two children by the time we were 20. I worked and went to school. I voted every chance I got. Usually, my candidates lost. And, when I finished my education at the age of 27, I ran for the school board - unsuccessfully.
Always, I knew that whenever I wanted to see what poverty was really like, I could just cross the border and stop by neighborhoods where people got their water from a dirty tap at the end of the street. Every year we took toys and such down there for Christmas time. So, I never really felt all that poor, but for the U.S., we were in fact below the poverty level.
Poor people can vote. And politicians respond to votes. When politicians raise money, they raise money to get more votes. Everyone should vote!
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