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New study projects drop in Millenial voter turnout in 2018
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Just don't have health problems or student loans
psynergylover
Member
don't worry, they'll "#" somthing on eqality/civil rights/healthcare and then feel better about themselves.
Because you shouldn't need fucking inspiration to vote!
It's about getting shit done, expressing your views, not about providing a pep rally.
Fucking hell.
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excelsiorlef
Member
Because getting rid of a literal white nationalist in office should be enough to inspire...
Lightning_Roller
Banned
Well, we're doomed.
I wonder how much of this translates to midterm turnout issues in general.
Dark Cloud
Member
That's the problem they don't think like that so it's up to you to find a solution to get them to vote. That's wayyy too many people to not vote.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Presidential elections are very different beasts than midterms for youth turnout.
Hierophant
Banned
Picture it from my generations perspective, even before Trump the world looks like it's poised to turn into a fucking hellscape with automation looming, global warming probably making it so having kids is unethical, the housing market being so fucked that most people will never own one and people living paycheck to paycheck to maintain bare subsistence
And then trump happens, of course you're going to be depressed as shit and not want to vote
And then trump happens, of course you're going to be depressed as shit and not want to vote
Trigonometrize.
Member
You're "thinking"?
How does this make any sense? "The world sucks, why bother trying to fix it?" Good strategy.
This attitude was very pervasive last year, and I did not understand it. Status quo is better than straight-up regression. People in my generation are too are short-sighted. Voting against Trump should have been all the motivation one needed. It's all I fucking needed . . . Now we're in a much worse position. So yeah, I'll definitely put some blame on the people in my cohort.
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SolarPowered
Member
The problem is that 3 million more of us voted this time and still didn't get the country we deserve. Gerrymandering also means pockets of voters strewn across the country have been facing these same disappointments for decades. Throughout this time our voter participation has continued to rank lower than that of other developed first world countries, but the warning signs were ignored until 2016 slapped us right in the face. The system is broken and it breaks many people's belief that we can meaningfully effect change.
I'm not going to stop voting or trying to convince others
From my perspective: I was 16 when Bush narrowly edged out Gore. I was 17 when 9/11 happened. I was 19 when Bush used it as an excuse to send my friends and my parents friends to war.
I didn't forget what a difference a ballot made after that.
Frozenprince
Banned
"Picture it from my generations perspective" Unless your 40 we're all essentially members of the same generation, some of us just have a slightly clearer recollection of the 90's and late 80's.
balladofwindfishes
Member
I'm a millennial and I think this sort of thinking is ridiculous.
Trump shouldn't make you depressed and reclusive. Trump should make you furious and ready to pounce on any opportunity to bring him down.
Letting him and the GOP get you down means they won control over you
benicillin
Banned
I mean, it's a problem for a lot of people. Most are not engaged in politics and only remember it happens when people start talking about it, and if you move often for work or school it's very easy to not be registered or forget by the time voting comes around.
Fox Mulder
Member
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whyamihere
Banned
How would Trump happening make you not want to vote.
I do think Democrats need to do more to inspire youth participation because that's what the youth vote needs, but as a private citizen, I can't imagine not voting and someone choosing not to vote.
I do think Democrats need to do more to inspire youth participation because that's what the youth vote needs, but as a private citizen, I can't imagine not voting and someone choosing not to vote.
Mammoth Jones
Member
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Hellsing321
Member
Millennials were a mistake.
If you remember breakfast cereal commercials having friggin' story lines, you are one of my people.
excelsiorlef
Member
You just want permission to do nothing.... I am not giving it to you.
Saying Trump won so of course I'm not going to want to vote is beyond asinine.
Frozenprince
Banned
You shouldn't need something grandiose to vote. You should vote because it's your civic responsibility, and maybe if politicians didn't need to MAKE these stupid ass giant nebulous promises, we could actually work around the fact that our current government is built to work with incremental changes. Maybe the parties wouldn't be so polarized, maybe we could actually work with common ground.
Maybe shit wouldn't be on fucking fire all the god damn time if you didn't demand each successive congress solve all issues immediately.
Maybe shit wouldn't be on fucking fire all the god damn time if you didn't demand each successive congress solve all issues immediately.
BrutishMrFish
Member
As if they ever really did. Their voter participation has always been horrible.
I was part of the problem in 2012, but I registered and voted this time around. If a lazy fuck like me can do it, a lot of other people could too, if only they bothered.
He got kids hooked on pie in the sky fantasy. He was a with us or against us candidate that poisoned new/young voters to the idea of incremental progress and conpromise.
Hierophant
Banned
At a certain point you're more concerned about looking after yourself than everyone else, you dont even have the time to vote because you have to work that day and can't take the day off, or you're a single mother and can't leave your children alone there's a myriad of reasons why people can't vote, to distill it down to just laziness and apathy is wrong (though there is a ton of apathy)
balladofwindfishes
Member
This is literally never going to happen and just fuels panicky liberals to continue to panic instead of actually doing stuff that helps
the_sun_king
Member
I hate saying it, but fuck any American citizen who doesn't vote.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Wait a minute, they made a study to find that voter turnout drops from a presidential election year to a midterm year? Despite the fact that there is decades of observable data that clearly demonstrates this very thing?
Maintenance
Member
US (and the world by proxy) is fucked.
A lot of things were literally never going to happen.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
The difference is the rate of decline they're estimating for the groups relative to each other.
whyamihere
Banned
It just depends on what rate that drop off occurs relative to other age groups.
balladofwindfishes
Member
VendettaRed07
Member
Sounds like riding a liberal wave, rebrand the parties image, focus on economic and social justice for poor and middle class Americans, talk about how trickle down has fucked over our generation, and make people hopeful about the future would be a good choice then.
Or we can say it's too hard and keep with 90s technocratic centrism and target voters who no longer exist.
So you are selfish. Good for you.
