Yeah, 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?

This is the type of arrogant attitude that drives away young voters. The democrats have had 15 years to get ANYTHING done on guns, climate change, health care, and student loans and they didn’t do jack shit. It’s not they’re “all of the sudden” pissed off, they’ve been pissed off.

The first democratic primary I voted in one of the main issues was a single-payer health care system supported by Hilary Clinton and single-payer public option supported by Obama. With a super majority in the senate and a majority in the house they still couldn’t get shit done. Now they can’t even endorse medicare for all as a party.

Obama was the candidate of tackling climate change, was in office for 8 years, still didn’t get shit done.

Biden campaigned on student loan forgiveness, still didn’t get shit done.

So what did 15 years of voting for democrats get me? A party that moved further to the right. Guess I just need to vote harder?

At some point, if you’re Charlie Brown and Lucy keeps yanking the football away you have to be an idiot to keep trying to kick it.

Youth will begrudgingly vote for democrats because it’s the least shit option they have, but don’t pretend like they’re actually voting for any meaningful change.

Democrats have only had 60 Senate seats for 2-3 months in that entire 15 year timespan. And in that time, they passed Obamacare – which would’ve had single payer, if not for the 60th vote they needed.

I’m a young voter too, and all I see are people with a lack of knowledge, no willingness to learn, and strong opinions nonetheless. I’ve been able to vote for 10 years now, and I’m an anomaly for having voted in almost every midterm and in every presidential election that I’ve been able to.

You want to blame someone? Blame your fellow young voters who weren’t inspired to go vote even by Sanders. There is absolutely no excuse for young voters not turning out in massive numbers. The system’s against us? Well tough fucking shit, it’s against everyone else too, and if you want to make it better, you have to vote and participate in the government, not sit on your ass and make memes about Bernie.

You had a once in a generation candidate that genuinely wanted to help young people and had a platform perfectly catered to them. And young people blew it.

Don’t worry about it, everyone in this thread is getting heated. Rightfully so, these things are important.

I’m glad that the prevailing opinion seems to be that both parties aren’t the same, and even though Democrats are imperfect they’re our best chance right now.

There’s nothing wrong with people bemoaning that or criticizing them to be better. What raises my eyebrow is when I see people who use that to defend their lack of voting.