SPECIAL EDITION: Yes, you should vote.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Election day is in four days. Today, Tangle founder Isaac Saul discusses the reasons most people don't vote, and why you should.
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| 0:35.1 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:40.6 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:53.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:02.8 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, I am going to be pitching to you the idea of voting. |
| 1:10.1 | This is a little bit unusual, not our normal |
| 1:12.8 | podcast. It's a little bit of a special edition. This is going out in our Friday edition |
| 1:17.9 | newsletter. It's a piece I actually originally wrote, or I guess it was this year, it was January |
| 1:23.9 | or February of 2022, but it feels really important to rerun today. |
| 1:29.9 | And I think I'm going to do this maybe before every big election for the rest of time |
| 1:37.1 | and just kind of casually incrementally update this piece as my argument sort of evolves. |
| 1:47.8 | But the basic idea is that a lot of people don't vote and I think they should. So I'm going to tell you why. So an interesting thing happened to me in 2020. |
| 2:08.0 | While the George Floyd protests spread across the United States, I watched my social circle snap into attention and dedicate themselves to understanding police violence, racial injustice, |
| 2:19.1 | and politics in the places that they lived. For months on end, my social media feeds were |
| 2:23.4 | filled with posts of support, explainers, and opinions. My inbox was full of questions. My |
| 2:29.1 | dinners out and my time at the bar were dominated by explicitly political conversations, |
| 2:36.5 | difficult, nuanced, informed discussion. Everybody wanted to do something. In New York, this movement was palpable, and if there was one |
| 2:43.1 | important moment to latch onto to affect some change, it was the impending mayoral race. Local politics |
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