Thread by @owillis

I see this attitude a lot and it’s a bad attitude. Not everybody votes for the reasons you do. They don’t see it your way. Lecturing them like this won’t shame them into magically voting. So put time and resources into efforts to get them to vote.

https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1461846534958444545

I happen to agree that a lot is on the line every time we vote. But a significant number of voters don’t feel this urgency and they won’t if all you do is yell at them about it. It never works, and all it does is make you feel smug.

Some people need voting to feel like a circus show. Maybe we think that’s stupid and they should “just know they need to vote.” If we make them entertained and that gets them to vote, aren’t we better of rather than lecturing them about why they should have known better?

Democrats go to sleep between elections, wake up in September and if it doesn’t pan out in November wonder why everyone isn’t as excited to vote as they are. Republicans are running for office 24/7/365 and understand elections aren’t just a fall exercise.

You get people out to vote by making it clear their votes solve tangible problems. This is why going to sleep the rest of the year is no good. Tell people year round the problems being created and how their vote can solve it - and use the power they give you to fix them.

Telling most voters amorphous things like “saving democracy” rings hollow. It might get you or me going but we are outliers.

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https://twitter.com/jackobora/status/1462524978130305036

You point out a problem. You explain how the political opposition is making this problem worse, while noting your side will fix it. You do this all year long not just Sep-Nov. by election time people are so sick of how “they” keep making the problem an issue they have to vote.

Next November, Republicans will vote to stop Biden from “opening the border” and “making” gas prices high. Republicans and their media have been pointing out to their voters since Jan this year that all this is “Biden’s fault.”

In that same period Dems have barely blamed gop for *attacking the Capitol*. It’s a huge disparity in how this stuff is handled.

We could be saying “we have to stop them from inspecting genitals, flooding cities with guns, pushing junk science to make COVID worse,” and much more. But we haven’t been saying any of that.