1. JD Vance is a hypocrite. His entire point in the book that gave him this platform was that education, especially at the college level, made the difference for him. Who’s giving that to him if not the professors?
2. The trick is going to be reminding people that by not voting, they become less equal. Every time a person doesn’t vote, they make the vote of someone else more powerful.
1. JD Vance is a hypocrite. His entire point in the book that gave him this platform was that education, especially at the college level, made the difference for him. Who’s giving that to him if not the professors?
2. The trick is going to be reminding people that by not voting, they become less equal. Every time a person doesn’t vote, they make the vote of someone else more powerful.
I volunteer with unhomed teens and often think about this. They have so little power to begin with but then they give over the little bit of power they do have to other people.
1. JD Vance is a hypocrite. His entire point in the book that gave him this platform was that education, especially at the college level, made the difference for him. Who’s giving that to him if not the professors?
2. The trick is going to be reminding people that by not voting, they become less equal. Every time a person doesn’t vote, they make the vote of someone else more powerful.
Your first point is EXACTLY what I was thinking. JD would have been someone else altogether (or, more likely, no one) without his education.
Beth, your #2 contains a good message for those of us writing postcards and letters to support get-out-the-vote organizations. Thank you, very much!
Thanks for the work you do. Writing GOTV postcards is hard work!
I usually do them while listening to HCR or a replay of Stacey Abrams’ documentary!
Tina and Joel, you're right. Point #2 will be going on my postcards in the future.
What a powerful campaign slogan Vance has "My ignorance is equal to your knowledge." Or as TFG would say "My ignorance is better than your knowledge."
I like how you expressed that: that by not voting, they become “less equal.” I wonder if more people saw it that way, if it would motivate them more?
I volunteer with unhomed teens and often think about this. They have so little power to begin with but then they give over the little bit of power they do have to other people.
Voter registration usually requires an address of some sort. Does that make it even harder for unhomed people to vote?
What great work you do! Thanks to all of you who volunteer to anything!
Exactly, Beth M. JDVance is a mere speck of dust on my radar screen. I blow it right off or drown it and the other specks with a Windex wipe.
JD Vance sold any integrity he once possessed in exchange for the potential of power.
Excellent points Beth! Thank You.
"By not voting you become less equal."