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I was doing some math on the voting population in Texas the other day and got super depressed: 29M people in Texas, 18M registered voters (don't know if I am buying that 11M people are too young to vote, but whatever), only 8M voted in the recent midterms. So that means that just over 4M people are making all of the governance decisions for 29M people. This is the problem. If the registered voters would ALL vote, most of our political problems would go away.
They can just blame stuff like this on liberal socialists and the rubes who put them in office will eat it up all day long. >

"Don't touch my Medicare"  cost Denny Hastert ®  his job. We'll see >

I thought it was because he was a pedo >

Naw GOP that’s not an issue >

Probably loved a democrat. >

Republicans don’t give a fuck about poor people. >

Yet shitloads of poor people vote for them >

Shitloads of poor people don’t vote. Because neither party has any interest in enticing the almost 1/2 the country that doesn’t vote to do so. It would call for concrete action rather than lies from venal old pricks in both parties. >

I really don't think you can blame the parties. Maybe the Republicans who strive for gerrymandered districts so their minority can control the majority of voters. Maybe the Republican party, for the exhaustion it imposes on people - endlessly inciting it's base, be endlessly harassing it's enemies - I bet a lot of people just check out from American politics because they're just crazy, all day. 
But you have a duty to vote. Everyone does. Because checking out from politics leads to places like Russia, where folks are willingly ruled by a despot, simply because he deals with everything for them.