That very last line is absolutely THE BEST reason ever given to register and vote. Some people don't want you to. They're afraid of your vote, so they do what they can to discourage it. They'll whisper in your ear that it doesn't matter, or that it's already rigged. There's only one way to un-rig it. VOTE.
no, violent revolution is the only way to unrig it. It didnt matter how many people voted for Bernie, the DNC was gonna shove her down our throat no matter what
Wow are you ever short-sighted, and deluded. First: Bernie got close, but didn't quite make it. I can safely say I'm a more fervent supporter of him than most, but that happens all the time, especially in politics. Were there shady dealings? Sure. But you're showing some *serious* cognitive bias in thinking he could have won otherwise. Second: Violent revolution never unrigs anything. In the case of this country, it would only serve to dismantle what little we do have in favor of a completely uncontrollable power play using actual brute force rather than political maneuvering. Third: In this corner: Bubba with his shotgun! In the other corner: the most advanced military in the world! Good luck with that one, dumbass.
JussumHashol 1st, Bernie had bigger crowds & the only reason his base wasnt even bigger was because of the media blackout of him. Wasserman Schultz rigged it against him & is a wretched human. 2nd it would be the only way of cleaning the criminals & crooks out of the government. They cant be removed peacefully. Only a French or Russian revolution could do it. 3rd that would be a challenge but history has shown there are no invincible armies. An EMP would cripple the military's capabilities. As quoted by Nappa, the army/navy are a bunch of pansies hiding behind toys. & if a large section of the military defected, the proletariat army would have a chance.
Nitpick: I know for a fact that you CAN sit on a jury if you're not registered to vote. Because I got a jury summons in my town while my voter registration hadn't been updated to reflect that I was living there. They base it off of your driver's license.
I am baffled that all these people in the comment section failed to understand that he was mainly talking about all of your LOCAL elections in which your vote definitely makes a difference. All of this "I'm not voting for either candidate" is nonsense because its not just the president you'll be voting for on the 8th
msakikibee EXACTLY!!!! But there are too many f*ktards in this country who don't realize there is more on the ballot than just the Presidential candidates. what a shame. So busy hating that they can't listen for a few minutes, even in their own best interest. #Deplorables
No it's not a joke Hillary is a criminal, Gary is a fool, and I don't agree with Jill on her stances. But if you want to vote for any of them I won't judge you, it's your choice.
Gary is a fool, so you're voting for Trump? That's ironic. Yeah, I don't think GJ is the perfect candidate by any means, and everyone is entitled to vote how they please. Just found that a bit ironic that you're choosing one dummy over another lol.
Thank you for this. The important politics are local politics. These are the politics you can, and should, get involved with because the decisions made locally will have great impact on your daily lives.
In true Joss fashion - and one of the reasons he is such an effective communicator on and off screen - this message is non-partisan and doesn't tell you who to vote for. JUST THAT YOU SHOULD VOTE! If you complain about this law or that rule or some injustice or inequality - JUST VOTE! Don't worry about what you think everyone else is doing or how they are voting - JUST VOTE! Don't worry about seeking approval from your coworkers by wearing that "I voted" sticker. Vote for your conscience and for "your house" - JUST VOTE! Most importantly, don't believe that the only ballots you need to cast are for the president. You local officials and state government representatives effect your daily lives as much or more than the President - JUST VOTE! The US Congress and Senate control much more of the actual LAW-MAKING than the President and so many people complain that they are career politicians. Why do you think they can make a career out of politics? NOT ENOUGH VOTERS TO FORCE THEIR CAREER CHANGE - JUST VOTE! I don't care for who or why. Only you can decide those things for yourself. Even if it's for the the local PTA or your Bridge Club or the Lollipop Guild - JUST VOTE! Participate in every possible election so you your voice can be heard. Hopefully we can go from the 54.9% of eligible voters participating in 2012 to as close to 100% as possible if we all - JUST VOTE! And just in case you didn't get it the first eight times - JUST VOTE!
Like others before them in the US, UK and many other countries, there are people today around the world still fighting & dying for the right to vote and have their say. If you are fortunate enough to live somewhere where the most you have to do is a little research before travelling to a polling station, you should 100% take up your hard won right and vote!
When you include the video of him and other celebs bashing trump and basically saying just vote for Hillary than everything they did was essentially anti-trump.
We're not bitching about the person who is in office. We're bitching about the structure of the system period. The original design was for people to go serve their country (IE Businessman, scientists, school teachers, lawyers, doctors etc etc) and then go back to their original profession. Now lawyers have made it impossible for that too happen and they have created a monopoly of career politicians who are just lawyers (with some exceptions, Ben Carson, Rand Paul etc etc). Show me a group of people who are willing to install term limits so political careers are not created and we will vote for those people.
Michael, I'm saying what Tara said. If you don't vote in the election and then don't like who/what wins (for whatever... President, school district council member, proposition #, etc), you can't really complain about it because you didn't vote to change the results.
Spot on. I have friends who say they won't vote because they don't know details about the people and issues on the ballot. I say vote for what you do know and leave the rest blank. Even if you only check one box, you've done better than nothing at all.
Absolutely not. If you don't know what you're doing, don't screw it up for the people that do. I'm totally fine with people not being interested in politics, but why make decisions on something you're not informed about?
Absolutely YES. I said "vote for what you know". The phrase "leave the rest blank" is so the person doesn't do damage where they have no knowledge. But they should go to the polls even if they have just one person or issue they care about on the ballot. Eezee peezee. I don't see why you have a problem with that.
I don't have a problem with that. But if someone doesn't know anything about the policies of the presidential candidates, do you really thing they'll have any knowledge of the local candidates or issues? I supposed there's a chance, but it seems unlikely.
How can it be said that voting matters or can make the changes I want when I don't agree with either party and those 2 parties put rules and laws in place to eliminate any 3rd party or independent competition?
Well it is. If you don't vote for one of the only two candidates that actually have a chance of winning the election, you are wasting your vote, because you have a winner-takes-all system. Not voting isn't a statement, it just means that you are not allowed to bitch or complain about anything that is happening as a result of this election, because you chose to not let you voice be heard.
One of the problems is that people buy into the stigmata that voting for a 3rd party is equivalent to not voting; or that it's a vote for the "other guy" (Rebs saying a 3rd party vote helps Hillary win, Dems saying a 3rd party vote helps Trump win). Both parties actively work together to eliminate any 3rd party competition, and too many people buy into it. This is the election that a 3rd party has the best chance to win in decades; possibly the past century... But not if people buy into the stigmata or just stay home.
This is untrue, in the state of Florida all you need is a drivers licences to be forced into Jury duty. Whoever the editor is, needs to get his facts straight.
Kayla Bihlajama yeah, I got summoned to jury duty twice before I registered to vote. My dad has never voted and he still has served on juries (never exciting ones, it's always a civil suit).
I am writing in Bernie, because it is MY VOTE for who I want to be president. I will vote, as it is a right that we fought hard for, but I refuse to vote for someone I cannot stand behind. I will not vote for the lesser of two evils, if the best the other side can say is "Our candidate is better than the alternative" than that is pretty sad. I get so sick of people telling me, and others like me who refuse to vote for the candidates the rigged system chose for us, that we are stupid, silly or wrong. How? How is voting for who you actually want to be president regardless of how "unlikely" it is they will win wrong? Isn't that what we are SUPPOSED to do? Vote for who we want to be president?
You know Bernie has, pretty explicitly, said not to vote for him, or write him in, and instead vote for Hillary, because then he can work with her to get legislation passed that they both agree on. So here's a question for you. Why would you vote for a person who is directly asking you not to vote for them?
Don't let someone vote shame you. It's YOUR vote. Do what you want. Even Bernie said that she needed to earn our votes and she hasn't earned mine either.
It would be simple for most people if they even knew of the other candidates, sadly, most people I try to talk to only know of the two. You should be voting regardless, for the simple fact that the President is only one box out of 20+ in some states. People need to quit falling for the "sham" that a vote...or not voting is a vote for the other side.....if enough people do it that other side becomes one of the "not known about" candidates. If enough people wanted to actually make a change they could, they are just to scared to make the change they so desperately need.
Unfortunately the nature of our voting system means that this simply isn't true. It's terrible, but voting for a third party or abstaining really is the same as voting against your own self-interest.
I'v been voting for 41 years. NOT because any actor- or anybody else- TOLD me I had to; But, because it's a RIGHT. Also, besides everything he said, if you don't vote you have no right to complain because you didn't do anything to try to stop it. THIS is why I'm voting for Trump/Pence- Because I want to STOP THE CORRUPTION AND LAW-BREAKING POLITICIANS.
Does everyone here know why we are in this country? It's because we were not allowed to choose our leader, our religion or just about anything. Hundreds of people have given their lives to be able to vote, and some people have just thrown that right away like a pice of paper. But what you don't realize is that the right you want to through away makes a difference. Everyone who doesn't vote in the U.S.A. takes their rights for granted so you might as well just leave. Go ahead. I don't care. But I do care about what happens to the country. Think about what you are throughing away.
Bit weird to disable the like and dislike button on a video about expressing yourself by voting and the general importance of voting but I liked the message anyway.
the dislike and like system just makes butt hurt little edgy 14 year olds feel like they're important. this way they can state their opinions and not be knocked out of the youtube algorithm.
When he said there are people who don't want you to vote and looked at the camera, was he looking at me, who was probably in the age range of their target audience, but didn't want the youth to vote because they vote terribly?
I am a Hispanic immigrant and now US citizen...lived in the U.S.A. for more than 30 years.....AMERICA IS THE LEAST RACIST PLACE I HAVE BEEN TO (including my country of origin) and I have have been to over 15 nations in Europe and Central/South America....
4 presidents have been elected WITHOUT the popular vote (YOUR VOTE).....That is direct proof that your vote matters...but ONLY if you vote the way the elites want you to,otherwise you are overruled and your vote literally means nothing.
I'm not here to bother talking sense to nonsense. I just stopped by to check out the GARBAGE trolls within the comments, who happen to be an accurate representation of our bamboozled, misguided society. I knew I could count on yall to show up to disparage an attempt to relay constructive messaging. (chortles @ your lives & the trash relationships within it, hairflips, and saunters away)
"We are a short-form digital production company dedicated to the idea that voting is a necessary and heroic act. That every voice in this wonderfully diverse nation should, and must, be heard. That the only thing that can save democracy is the act that defines it." Funny how your channel description differs so blatantly from the extremely partisan and fear-mongering content you put out.
If that was really their primary intention, they "Go Vote" message wouldn't be buried under so much "Trump is EVIL!!!!" Joss Whedon wants you to vote....as long as you agree with his elite Hollywood liberal groupthink. If you don't, these ads have made it very clear that he'd rather you walk in front of a bus.
But you have to consider, that the "fear mongering" is far more fact based (trump's speeches) than trump fear mongering about muslims, mexicans, the criminal situation in america... about anything. Their key expression is "vote" and not "vote for hillary". They let you choose.
Are the Democrats afraid? I am being serious and critical. With all these celebrity voting ads, seems they are pandering to the lowest common denominator who only consumes showbiz....
elfsong713 I am not getting into petty arguments. Have you seen the militant ranks on the left.... The what you can argue on the left, you can easily mirror on the right...
let me precede this by saying i am voting, but a couple complaints. 1) we aren't directly a democracy. 2) if votes reallllllly mattered then explain the DNC putting their thumb on the scale for hillary during the primaries. 3) and what if I vote for trump? would you still be telling me to vote.
I'll take a crack at this. 1) So what if we aren't a direct democracy? No country is. They are all some sort of representative democracy, like the US. If you are referring to the electoral college, still a lame reason not to vote. Boo hoo, there's a small chance the electoral college outcome might differ from the popular vote. That doesn't mean it's not important to vote for your preference. 2) Primaries are not elections in an official sense. They are only elections within your party and the rules are not under the jurisdiction of the federal government (other than campaign finance laws) like the national elections are. So, if you don't like it, they would say you are free to join another party. Has nothing to do with the federal election. And 4) yes.
1) I was responding to the video claims on us being a democracy, which isn't 100 percent accurate. 2) It's still voting. And nice. If I don't like how it's ran join another party. Did you even read your comment before you came out like an asshole. 4?) Bet not. I love seeing all these videos online of people being harassed for being a Trump supporter.
Not voting is metaphorically the same as voting for either Trump or Hillary. Your decision to not vote increases the chances for one of them winning the election. Just vote for the 3rd candidate. Sure he/she may not win, but at least you'll have the satisfaction of doing your part in keeping Trump/Hillary from winning.
I think we would find the numbers much lower than you presume. What about the other side of the coin: Malicious Republican voter suppression actions and Citizens United allowing massive corporate spending and all the dirty tricks that has come with that?
citizenschallengeYT Both sides are complicit in this matter .. the main reason why it is not addressed ... Hopefully a good pure soul takes this up and fixes the wrong.
Without ID laws, it is literally illegal to find any objective evidence. My question is "How do states without these laws validate the vote count?" - would you perhaps have an answer? thx.
StarlessBandNJ I have no problem with who you vote for. I only ask that you have an open mind to every person who you don't know personally. Wether that be Donald, Hillary, Obama, or any person who you don't know.
Actually you can. By not voting the candidate gets less support and in the long run hurts their political future. Like when I dont watch his shows, the ratings suck and it gets canceled. Imagine only 40% of people vote, then these atleast 1 these hacks' careers are over. A close race only encourages the loser to try again and stick around.
Of course people care. Why did people want Mitt Romney to run again? Because he still got almost half the popular vote in 2012. If he only got 35% no one would've cared.
If you know or willing to pay for a constitutional lawyer for me, I can help you keep your promise to do better by Women. What if our father in heaven is really our mother who sent her son 1st and will send her daughter 2nd as the Queen of the South to collect His rent aka the Final Judgment. The only way for us to get a New Heaven & Earth is for Women to receive inheritance denied them due to their gender and let a Her-It-Age begin.
