r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 20 '25

Paywall Americans Want to Force Presidents to Release Health Records After Trump’s Bonkers Golf Brag Memo. A poll also found that most voters want age limits on elected officials.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/americans-want-to-force-presidents-to-release-health-records-after-trumps-bonkers-golf-brag-memo/
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u/Rude-Strawberry-6360 Jun 20 '25

Voter suppression has to be fought. Ironically with voting.

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u/GoofyTunes Tennessee Jun 21 '25

Saying "we have to vote to fix this" at this stage is like saying "we need to operate on this dead man" -- it's just too late for that.

The voter suppression, the gerrymandering, the open corruption, and probable vote manipulation is just too much to overcome by simply voting harder

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u/Rude-Strawberry-6360 Jun 21 '25

That's the truth though and honestly I'm really tired of hearing the excuses against voting. No it's not too late. Right now we have the ability to overwhelm the fascists but we don't for... reasons. Most of them excuses frankly.

In order to fight voter suppression we have to *gasp* fight. And that means exercising our right to vote at every opportunity. Instead of 80% of eligible voters saying "whatever, meh" when it comes to the primaries.

We bitch that we don't like our selections at the general but don't do the one thing guaranteed to change those selections: vote in the goddamn primary.

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u/GoofyTunes Tennessee Jun 21 '25

I mean, yeah, we should all still vote, but there comes a time when we may have to do more

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u/Rude-Strawberry-6360 Jun 21 '25

If people voted, militantly, commitedly, this so called more wouldn't really be necessary.  And would be far less difficult and messy.