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?
I love how young people are simultaneously nonvoters who can be ignored and a vital constituency who must vote in every election even though they’ve been ignored.
Talk about getting things ass backwards.
So which one is it? Are they apathetic voters who are to blame for every loss, or insignificant nonvoters who can be safely ignored?
If it’s the former, the party should realize that its lack of action on important issues is costing them badly needed votes and behave accordingly. If the latter, the party shouldn’t blame the insignificant margins when they lose.