It’s pandering and on the edge of buying votes. Unlike Student Loan “forgiveness” which was a direct purchase of a vote.
And no I doubt this will rouse the pot smokers to vote, perhaps mail in, as they don’t have to do actually anything.
And no I doubt this will rouse the pot smokers to vote, perhaps mail in, as they don’t have to do actually anything.
While you can make some amount of case that the timing makes it a manipulation, is this really the manipulation that bothers you?
I would rather there be no manipulations. But in a country that divides itself on infantile identity politics, fight fire with fire.
It is not a fair game. You can’t demand perfect intentions around this issue when politics is full of much worse actors.
It’s obvious to everyone that the democrats are losing their bread a butter voters, young people and black folks. This gets waved around for the nth time and everyone gets excited.