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feeling like a part of something

Submitted June 25, 2008 - 3:57 pm by JessicaD (not verified)

I've always voted, and I never understood why many friends and acquaintances my own age didn't vote. They told me it wasn't not going to make a difference, when I could clearly see huge policy differences between candidates. But reading your post I finally got a sense of why they might have felt the way they did. When both candidates are running a top down campaign and taking marching orders from large donors, there's no sense that anyone is listening to us.

"fear-based thinking... leading many millions of Americans that have more in common ideologically with Democrats than Republicans to turn our backs on electoral politics, participation and voting..."

It's amazing how the bottom up approach has turned everything around and made so many people realize that this time they can be involved and make a difference, and not just by voting, but by organizing on the local level.

 

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