They need to. Because you can’t never vote in your life, watch the Republicans, who tried to kill the ACA since it was created, take complete control of the government, vote in one election and then give up because all that previous damage wasn’t instantly reversed.

That’s not how this works.

And if they had voted as hard last year as they did last week, literally none of this would be happening.

Yeah, people did vote hard last week. And if they vote with the same intensity and patterns next year instead of tucking in their tails and getting despondent, Republicans won't be in charge of the House and maybe not even the Senate.

They can hoop, holler, shut down the government or go on hunger strikes. Math is math. If all the Republicans stick together, as they almost always do, the Democrats are going to come up short. Because there aren't enough of them.

And THAT comes back on we the voters.

And it's time for angry Democrats to get a handle on the concept of math.

There are 53 Republican U.S. Senators and 47 Democratic and Independent U.S. Senators.

There are 219 Republican House members and 214 Democratic House members.

It doesn't matter how much they "fight." They're outmanned.

I think we've had this conversation before if I'm not mistaken.

And every one of the last three Presidential elections has resulted in one party having control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. The last election that resulted in this not happening was in 2012.

No, it was not a "historic" majority.

The Dems had a 1-seat majority in the Senate and a 5-seat majority in the House.

And the Electoral College was decided by less than 50,000 votes despite Biden getting 7 million more popular votes.

Because when people don't vote, the people who they are asking their undermanned political allies to fight against are the ones who get control.

And, no, many people are NOT voting in a serious and sustained manner. And not just for President. The stats show this.

And in 2020, Republican Senator Thom Tillis won re-election by less than two points. More than a quarter of the state's voters didn't bother to vote. Nearly 50,000 voters voted for President but didn't bother to vote in the Senate election that was on the very same ballot.

That's the fourth vote.

Also in 2022, Republican Ted Budd beat Democratic former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley by a little more than 3 points.

Nearly half of the registered voters in North Carolina, another nearly evenly divided state, didn't bother to vote that year.

Another vote for Thune.

In 2022, Republican Senator Ron Johnson kept his seat by just 1 percentage point, the margin by which he beat Democrat Mandela Barnes.

More than 40% of registered voters in Wisconsin, which is generally a high-turnout state, didn't bother to vote that year.

That's another vote for a GOP majority.

The Republicans have a four-seat majority in the Senate.

In 2024, Republicans won the Senate election in Pennsylvania by just over 15,000 votes (0.22%). Nearly five times that many voters voted for President but not for U.S. Senator.

That's one of those four seats that put Thune in charge.

If people who complain about the policies Republicans enact didn't bother to show up to vote for their opponents, they share in part of that blame.

It's not like it's anyone else's job to persuade citizens to reject fascism.

If you look at the congressional districts for which registered voter information is available, of the 100 districts that had the lowest turnout of registered voters in 2024, 70 of them were districts with more registered Democrats than registered Republicans.

The Republicans won a House Majority by a margin of 3 seats last fall.

Want to guess how many Republicans won House elections in districts in which there are more registered Democrats than registered Republicans? Six. Five of them just in New York and Pennsylvania.

Why do I say this?

Well, first of all, Trump would not even be President if just 1 out of every 11 registered voters in North Carolina who didn't vote along with 1 out of 17 registered voters in Georgia and Pennsylvania had voted for Harris instead of staying home.

No one that believes anything Trump says will be swayed by facts - and numbers aren’t even real. The president throws numbers around like exclamation points.

and we are paying it

Because of these tariffs, everything is gonna go up and people are gonna prioritize food over everything else