Hopefully folks in Rep. Jefferies district agree with you.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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I imagine voting people in would feel really satisfying if someone I really liked ever won the primaries
Makes sense.
Voting people out: there's probably a reason you aren't voting for them, based on what they've done in office.
Voting people in: they have yet to prove they'll do what they say.
Only one of them is actually based on what the candidate has done in an official capacity, so the stakes are higher.
I've tried holding my tongue on this, but I gotta be real, I wanna brag. Abdul El-Sayed is running in my state, I get to vote for him, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. It only took one single person I truly wanted, and this vote turned to feeling actually amazing. I'm headed to cast it in about half an hour's time, and it just keeps feeling better and better. All y'all naysayers can tell me that my vote means nothing, or just allows fascism to persevere, but at least this single person gives me hope that we can slide things in the opposite direction. And to the others who say it pales in comparison to direct action, the infighting has always been there, but slow change is still change, and I feel good about changing course. Abdul is someone I truly feel can make positive change, and seeing just how many attacks he's getting from news media and advertisements has me even more hopeful. It's an onslaught of things saying "Abdul will destroy X, Y, Z thing," and half the time the things they're defending aren't even good institutions. Seeing how AIPAC money wants him down this badly fills me with glee. God I want this man to win.
Anyways, last-minute attempt to make this relevant to the post: voting people in is waaaay more satisfying if you actually want the candidate, instead of "Ohhhh lesser of the evils..."
Hell yeah! Congrats on getting to vote for someone awesome.
and that, class, is how you know you're living in a broken democracy.
Yeah, I've said a few times that most world governments are stuck in an eternal flip flop between right and ~~left~~ less right, not because people can't decide if left or right is best, but because nobody is happy.
The idea that we'd all have enough money to live if people weren't paying half their wages for a roof, doesn't even seem to be considered.
I haven't yet had the opportunity to vote in someone I actually liked.
Man, I was so excited to vote Obama in. Of course I disagreed with a bunch of his choices, which is unsurprising — we elected Obama, not me — but I did really like him.
That's not necessarily a ding on politicians. Representative democracy requires a political meat grinder that few people get out of still mostly intact. Those are the candidates you get to vote on. It takes a certain kind of person to survive the meat grinder long enough to be on a ballot. There are 350 million people in the US, for instance. There are maybe a half million people seeking office from local to federal. That's about .15 percent of the entire population. It's a sheer numbers game that you haven't voted for anyone you liked.
Many good people don't want to enter the meat grinder in the first place, skewing the result further. That's why democracy is mostly about voting for the least bad.
Well, the system actively opposes the values I hold. A couple of candidates with those values have broken in (in other states) but they have done that with the strong opposition of the system.
And becoming healthy is more satisfying than becoming sick. Yes.
Analogous to OP's statement, shouldn't that be
"Chasing sickness out is more satisfying than inviting health"?
I guess it depends on who's being voted for here.
That's because these old fucks are scared to go back to living normal lives where someone isn't running their errands for them. So they overstay their welcome, pull us all down and don't know dick about shit on things they vote for.
Can we also banish people to islands, like in. The olden times? Oh, wait...
We tried that with Napoleon, it didn't work out so well.
Absolutely. Decades of political history show that parties don't win elections, governments lose them.
Don't know.
I'k looking foreword to voting in the greens in this November election
Anyone who voted in both 2008 and 2020 can tell you that's bullshit.
Not successfully voting someone out isn't satisfying.