Zeb LarsonI feel like I see a lot of older liberals talk about how voter apathy is the enemy and not gerrymandering or voter suppression. It fascinates me. Do they just not want to admit to themselves that the game is rigged? I vote in every single election, but I live in a heavily gerrymandered state that lives under one-party rule and have no illusions about how powerful my vote is.
Agora@Zeb_Larson Both things can be true at the same time. In my community, a particular generation of men doesn’t bother voting. Yes, their apathy is probably linked to decades of voter suppression, but there is little effort to convince /motivate these men to show up. For example, Snoop voted for the first time in 2020. There are many men of his generation who don’t show up. Although, I don’t know how we will overcome the new voter suppression bills newly passed after 2020 and 2022!
@Agora There’s a feedback loop for sure, and there’s also apathy (low voter turnout among young people has been a problem for decades). To your point, I don’t know how we easily overcome it. People in Ohio passed an anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative a few years ago, and it totally failed last year: Republicans just ran out the clock on statewide and federal maps until a federal court said elections had to happen, and they’ll do that every couple of years if they have to.
@Zeb_Larson we are screwed!