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BBT #16 Snippet | People Will Stand in Line 3 Hours for Sneakers and 3 Minutes for a Voting Booth
People camp outside stores for sneaker drops. They set 3 AM alarms for Stanley Cup restocks. They coordinate group chats around Supreme releases and Louis Vuitton waitlists. And in the same election cycles where voter turnout determines who controls the Supreme Court, the Senate, and the state legislatures redrawing congressional maps, they cannot find 45 minutes to stand in a voting line. The contrast is not subtle and it is not new — but it is getting harder to ignore when the consequences of political disengagement are this concrete and this fast-moving. The obsession with luxury goods and…
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