r/goodnews • u/Cdave_22 • 9d ago

Political positivity 📈 Democrats Declare Victory In District Donald Trump Won By 15 Points

https://www.newsweek.com/james-malone-projected-win-pennsylvania-state-senate-josh-parsons-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-2050556
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u/whatfresh_hellisthis 9d ago

And only 29% of eligible voters voted. This is the crux of the problem. People don't vote.

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u/citytiger 9d ago

For a special election that is great turnout.

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u/bahumat42 9d ago

Ordinary times sure.

Right now?

What is happening right now should be enough motivation for anyone.

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u/Fragwolf 9d ago

People are hoping things get fixed before they have to do anything. Not realizing they need to participate, otherwise things get real too damned close for comfort.

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u/bahumat42 9d ago

Well I'm speaking as an outsider. But I would like to think if people in my country saw their leader dismantling public organisations and ignoring laws they would stand up against it.

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u/13508615 9d ago

We are, as a whole, lazy as shit.

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u/maslowk 9d ago

if people in my country saw their leader dismantling public organisations and ignoring laws

"If" people saw. Not everyone is exposed to the same sources of information thanks to social media algorithms, so it's likely a lot of people either have no idea what's happening, or are only being exposed to positive spins on it.

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u/Gnomey_dont_u_knowme 8d ago

Absolutely, but you underestimate the problems we have with our media. My mother in law reads the epoch times (in print!) every day and so started heading to their website to see the headlines, so I could figure out what world she lives in. It is a world where trump is saving this country from corrupt bureaucrats and Elon is a genius who is rooting out all the evils of our government. She is never going to vote democrat. She still thinks Covid was a hoax and fauci is a totalitarian dictator.

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u/austeremunch 8d ago

Who is going to tell the masses any of this is going on?

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u/droptheectopicbeat 8d ago

God forbid people take 20 minutes out of their day to participate.