YoBuckStopsHereBiden confronts a 'pissed-off generation' of young voters who may be decisive in 2024
HazdazYeah, they are sooooo pissed off that they couldn’t be bothered to show up at the polls in the last election.
6 years ago Bernie Sanders, one of the most left-leaning candidates in our modern history, ran on a platform that depended on the youth vote. He was utterly destroyed in the primaries because the youth vote never materialized. And this type of thing has happened time and time again.
In the last election, it should have been especially important for the youth what with an endless stream of school shootings, anger toward inaction on climate change and the whole student loan debacle. These are all massively important topics for the youth - or at least they should be - and they couldn’t be bothered to go out and vote in full force. Something like 75% of the youth of this country sat this election out. 75%. That’s pathetic.
But now all of a sudden they are going to act pissed off?
AphoticDevMaybe we can get kids to get out and vote if democrats actually start doing something for the people instead of coddling corporations and sitting on their asses while republicans strip away our civil rights.
But instead, the Republican party is full of nazis and the Democrats are collaborators who use the outrage of younger generations for fundraising.
Oh, you mean like trying to save access to abortion?
Or tuition relief?
Or school food vouchers?
Or sane gun laws?
Or just in general pro-science based policies on vaccines or climate change?
Or an endless list of other things that Dems are indeed trying to do but they are met with a Red Menace that will stop at nothing to make any of those policies get through.
Oh, is that what you mean?
Because clearly one doesn’t understand that we live in a democracy where there are 2 political parties and if one is willing to undermine the rule of law and the foundation of our democracy to get their way, then you won’t get your tuition relief or any other pro-worker, pro-consumer, pro-sanity policies passed.
We don’t live in a dictatorship where one person can simply decree for things to happen. We NEED cooperation to get things done. One side is trying, the other side is fighting any and all progress in pretty much every policy.