absentlyabbie:

jangojips:

absentlyabbie:

sometimes i worry how quickly it seems to be fading from public consciousness that the american people didn’t actually choose donald trump

he lost the popular vote

HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE

by kind of a lot

it still matters that all those people out there DID vote for them, it still matters that our electoral system is so fucked and so undemocratic as to elect him anyways, but i feel it’s really important we remember that the majority of americans chose hilary clinton and not donald trump

for a lot of reasons, we need to not let it fade out of public top-of-mind knowledge that donald trump was not the choice of the american people

HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE!

#please still vote though

 (@the-prim-reaper)

fucking yes, this though.

if the message you somehow got out of this post was “donald trump didn’t even win the most votes and we still got stuck with him as president, what’s the point of voting! it obviously doesn’t matter” then let me tell you how wrong you are.

first things first, at barest minimum: the vital elections coming up next. week. are not a presidential election. the outcome is not decided by electoral college. there’s still plenty of bullshit asshole republicans have been pulling to try and stymie the power of your vote (gerrymandering, voter suppression, purging voter rolls, holding back voter registration applications, etc) but they do that because your vote absolutely does matter. in non-presidential elections, absolutely every single vote matters.

so at minimum, if this post made you feel like donald trump won despite the popular vote so why does voting matter, start with right now. there is no electoral college in this part of the process. one person, one vote.

and if you change the jackasses in the senate, the house, and on the state levels, you help change the whole damn process, help put in place people far more likely to push for and enact reforms to the outdated, unequal electoral college system, among so many other things.

i guarantee you that doesn’t happen if you stay home and don’t do your part to get rid of the people who have so thoroughly benefited from the system currently in place, because they will keep the things that helped them exactly where they are, and do nothing but make it harder to make change with your individual vote.

now is the time. this is the election, if you felt disempowered in 2016, for you to take back some of that power.

we cannot make things perfect right away. but we can make things better, and keep pushing the needle towards progress.

you don’t make that happen by staying at home.