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Rhaedas

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Agree in concept, as voting should mean actually thinking about what a person brings to the position and not just a name grab. However the danger of drawing a line for voting qualification is that the line can easily be moved around with any sort of parameters. Educating the public is the only real solution, but boy that’s difficult when the means of communication are loaded to enhance someone’s profit and not actually teach substance.

This election was a failure because of the lack of communication, in many different aspects. And now that will become even harder to do.

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It’s wild how for months leading up to the election there were reports and reports on how the economy is doing great. People who pointed out that they weren’t seeing it personally were belittled as not understanding the big picture. And now this election was lost because of economy - one side that I guess didn’t say too much about what could improve (there was a lot on Harris’ site and policies about it, but I guess that was too much for voters). And the other side who said the same thing as before, “going to have a beautiful economy, the greatest ever seen. No one knew it could be so good.”

Well, let’s do another four years, see what burns down this time.

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Living paycheck to paycheck, limited if any sick time to take. Not a great excuse, I agree the common sense thing is to contain and recover, but that doesn’t help with the bills or keep the job. Blame the system, not the people in it.

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Quid pro quo. We’ve seen this before, it will happen again.

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As well as changes to the EPA, NOAA, etc. Talking about climate change might become dangerous. Asking for help from FEMA may weigh heavily on how your state voted.

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I guess the silver lining is that we won’t spend the next few months worried about violent retaliation and a second insurrection. But we’ll have to live through the bickering and multiple finger pointings among non_MAGA people on whose fault it was. Then January 20th will come and we’ll be too busy worrying about our well being to continue the blaming.

It really does parallel Brexit in a way. People are so similar.

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That’s why age itself isn’t the problem. I see plenty of representatives far below that age that can’t do the job.

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Cheese in general, but some are more on the edge than others. I mean, once you learn how cheese is made…

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Based on this breakdown It looks to be a comparison of all absentee ballots (which includes early voting, i.e absent from Election Day voting).

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