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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 65 points 3 months ago

This is why POTUS elections are less important than congressional elections. They make the laws and they hold the checkbook. But fewer and fewer seem to understand that. And assume that the POTUS can just dictate those types of policy at their whim.

You want domestic change? You want free healthcare? Cheap education? Better infrastructure? A better judicial system?

Then vote for the people running for the institutions that can actually can make those things happen, and that ain't supposed to be the POTUS. But evidently many, (majority?), of people can be all that arsed to bother much about the 'Downstream' elections.

[-] iz_ok@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 3 months ago

Exactly.

The executive branch is only one part of a bigger system. Local, county, and state elections probably have a bigger impact on your lives than the presidential ones.

I live in a deep red state so my vote for President will hardly ever matter but I'll be damned if I don't vote against the archaic amendments that get proposed.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

This is the fight that matters.

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