• butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    As a leftie who moved to one of those red states, please come help. We can flood these places with enough people to tip them, we just need to stop with fatalistic bullshit about how these states are “beyond all hope.” No they’re fucking not. Get out of your comfort zone, do your duty to our democracy, and ffs stop self sorting into deep blue states. Staying where it’s blue is easy but it doesn’t do much good.

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      12 days ago

      As a leftie who moved to a red state a decade ago, welcome to the suck. It only gets worse.

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      Ngl, I just spent a week in Indiana. Hate to say it, but the vibe was truly “beyond all hope.”

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      Of those in red states during presidental elections, they are around 25-35% of voters that voted for a Democrat president. And there’s a big untouched potential with nonvoters who aren’t convinced by either political party. There’s no reason to give up on any state