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.

  • Maybe Republicans can inspire young voters to vote against them, since Democrats consider appealing to young voters to be beneath them.

    Joe Biden is at least trying to do SOMETHING to reduce student debt.

    Not enough, but something.

    He is indeed. Biden is persevering on both student debt and sick days for rail workers. I’ll not fault him for either. Both are commendable. He needs to crow a lot louder about both. Particularly the sick days, since everyone got to see Biden the strikebreaker and too few people even know about the sick days.

    He’s not only trying, he’s trying again. He’s not just giving up forever after encountering one little setback.

    I wish more Democrats would show the same level of persistence.

    I am sorry I had trouble getting over Biden saying interracial marriage is wrong, like what did he do for me? Oh not be Trump? Like its feeling like people vote for whatever, i know soooooo many people who would vote for Trump over Biden, but voting Kanye is just stupid 🙄

    I am sorry I had trouble getting over Biden saying interracial marriage is wrong

    When did Biden say that? I haven’t been able to find a source.

    nymag.com/…/joe-biden-record-on-busing-incarcerat… Lol my downvotes show how right I was, choosing between geriatric racists is more normal than voting Kanye because hes “crazy”. People will see dogwhistles in everything but where they actually are.
    You claimed he was against interracial marriage. The article you linked never mentions it.
    You are not “insert race here” if you do not vote for Biden, enjoy your platform
    You got called on your lie and now you’re flailing.
    Who you voting for?
    Your mum