Republicans Are at War With College Towns. And They’re Losing.

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Republicans Are at War With College Towns. And They’re Losing. - Lemmy.world

Republicans are at war with young people in general. It honestly looks like they are actively TRYING to lose as much of the youth vote as possible:

  • Young people deeply feel the existential dread of climate change. Republicans still deny the basic facts about it, and fight all attempts to mitigate it.

  • Young people understand that their lives have been destroyed by student loans at rates and amounts unheard of in the past. Republicans not only have ZERO empathy, here, they are actually delighting in cruelty about it. They actively tried to add RETROACTIVE interest charges to student loans as we reach the end of the pandemic loan freeze, on top of their efforts to make it virtually impossible to have loans forgiven for public service.

  • Young people are less religious than ever, while the right wing is using the court to turn us into a theocracy.

  • Young people have progressive attitudes about LGBTQ rights, and the Republicans are centering their 2024 campaign on a contest of the bigoted they can be in this area.

  • Climate change/action is a hoax.
  • Life has never been harder for younger generations but a loan is a loan.
  • When does the whataboutism end…
  • So what. Let the LGBTQ people vote for whomever they wish to.
  • I’m continually in awe at how somebody can still insist climate change is a hoax in 2023 💀 Like damn you haven’t even moved onto the downplaying stage you still think it’s outright not real?

    Yeah, considering you can pretty much feel the effects almost everywhere on the planet these days, it’s an absurd position lmao.

    Even if I knew nothing about climate change, I would have noticed the stark differences in summers and winters. Even if you weren’t paying attention at all, you were bound to notice something. Sometimes it has been too drastic, and too unprecedented, to just ignore.

    Meteorologists get the weather wrong all the time. All the time.
    When did we start talking about the weather?
    Extrapolate what I said into whatever you’ve been told about weather patterns and climate change.
    I mean, if anything meteorologists being bad at predicting weather patternsnisnproof of climate change fucking up standard weather patterns.
    That’s not how logic works son.