More republicans?
Yep, and quantifiably so.
If lower voter turnout didn’t favor republicans (in many situations), there’s no way in hell they’d put so much time and effort into voter disenfranchisement.
And if higher voter turnout didn’t favor democrats (in many situations), there’s no way in hell they’d put so much time and effort into “get out the vote” campaigns and generally attempting to thwart voter suppression by the republicans.
That fact that you don’t know that lower voter turnout favors republicans just goes to show that we need to focus more on educating one another than simply throwing up our arms in frustration and “not voting” and hoping that poor strategy “works”.
Imagine they had an election and nobody voted.
Imagine that we stopped divulging into fantasy and platitudes and started talking about realistic strategies instead?
Do you see workers' strikes as childish and ineffective also?
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#straw
No, not at all… but then again, direct actions like labor strikes have absolutely nothing to do with sitting on your ass and not voting. As a matter of fact, there wouldn’t even be labor strikes without preliminary votes on them, so your comparison is rather ridiculous.
Also:
• Worker’s strikes don’t usher in more district gerrymandering that thwart third parties in the future.
• Worker’s strikes don’t usher in more voter disenfranchisement that thwarts third parties in the future.
• Worker’s strikes DO have a proven track record of helping labor to overcome obstacles.
• “Not voting” has a proven track record of hurting labor and solidarity.
The United States ranks only 120th of 169 countries that track voter turnout. We’ve already tried false equivalency “not voting” bullshit and it’s been a complete and miserable failure.
It’s time for a new strategy based on reality instead of platitudes based upon hot air, anger and frustration.
