I love how all of lemmy and many other places on the internet bitched and moaned about people calling for Biden to drop out. Then he did and the party is more energized than it has been in years, and actually has a chance to, ya know, defeat American fascism.
That's more people than Taylor Swift got to register.
Young people respond when they feel like they're being listened to. They don't respond to boomers lecturing them about what to do, because they've heard job hunting advice from boomers.
kudos to everyone who thought Biden stepping down was a bad idea but admit they were wrong now. i understand why some people thought it would lead to uncertainty and chaos, might look weak, etc. it's an understandable concern.
and now it's in the past. if you can see that it's helping your side by energizing people who might have checked out before, it's severely hurting the other side who only had prepared attacks on biden and have nothing to say but whine that this isn't fair, and most importantly her willingness to talk about project 2025 unlike biden is raising awareness and distaste for the republicans... and think "hey this went better than I expected and I'm glad that it happened"... then I salute you. i hope this inspires you to talk to more people and get more people to vote.
So good news and all, and I guess we kinda already know this, but this also means there are at least 40k fucking morons out there...
If I'm to be polite I should probably say "politically uninformed." But seriously wtf? They'd sit back and take fascism if it were old man vs old man, but now it's time to vote because one old man is out?
I know all this irrational exuberance over the good news Democrats have been getting since Biden dropped out is going to come with a hangover, but fuck it, I'm having a blast!
So...when I checked my voter status in June, it said that the deadline to register for November was early July. Isn't this a few weeks late? Did I misunderstand something?