It doesn’t matter, VOTE
It doesn’t matter, VOTE
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You know, 18-24 year olds are the least likely to vote.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL things unholy, prove me wrong…
And young people wonder why no one listens to them. Get mad. Call your elected officials about things that you care about. Volunteer for someone you like. Donate if you can. Commenting online is not doing anything.
Oh yeah... fucking vote.
That's the thing. Politicians do have access to lists who are registered to vote and who voted and in which election.
If your base doesn't vote, they will adjust their program to those who will. Old people get their way, because they ALWAYS vote.
If your base doesn't vote, they will adjust their program to those who will. Old people get their way, because they ALWAYS vote
This as well as the OP ignores the fact that the top two reasons for people not voting are politicians alienating them and politicians making it too difficult to vote.
Victim blaming the alienated and encumbered nonvoters does nothing about the root of the problem and is the equivalent of scolding someone working 60 hour weeks for minimum wage for not exercising and cooking healthy meals for themselves often enough.
Disclaimer to save some time rebutting the obvious strawman: I'm not an 18-24yo nonvoter myself. I'm 41 and never missed a chance to vote or told anyone not to.
Ok, but that's also total bullshit. Elected officials don't give a shit whether you're young or old, politically inclined or not, foreign or domestic, it only matters if you have money.
These are all good suggestions, and the best way to fight the power. But don't expect to make politicians care. The goal is to make enough noise and demand your rights, because the powerful will only concede ground when it becomes unprofitable to fight you.
I mean if you are voting at 18 you are likely going to be a pretty regular voter. At least it was that way with me. Man I still remember this bs election where they moved the polling place and I ended up working late and did not know about it. Was so angry. I so much like mail in. That and wfh are the only bright spots of nowadays.
Its funny, they moved my primary location to a different location than my general both the years Sanders was running. Managed to make it both times but that hasn't happend before or since.
This post didn’t have to be ageist. But it is.
Fun fact, gen z turned up more to vote than any other generation before them- when that generation was the same age, and millennials kinda started that trend.
So you can get off your soap box and stop laying the groundwork for blaming us for yet another thing.
It's not ageist to say that young people do not vote at the rates of older people. It's just a fact.
Good for us for voting in record numbers. They're still poor numbers.
OP clearly seems to think the problem is young voters not voting.
Otherwise there would be no reason to mention that specific age group at all. If the motivation is to encourage people to vote, age is irrelevant- any additional voter is good.
This post is specifically calling out a specific age group, and that’s blatantly ageist. In exactly the same way that saying “black people are convicted of more crime, so stop doing crime!” would be blatantly racist.
The assumption is because when they were that age they didn’t vote… that people that age aren’t voting.
Another statistic- across the board, 40% of Americans don’t vote. Ever. And it’s not a question of age.
I think that group is also the least likely to answer a poll.
Could be the sleeper we need.
Not polling, actually voting
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2017/comm/voting-rates-age.html
If you read the source of your link https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-documentation/methodology.html You would know the census gets that data by polling......
You know, 18-24 year olds are the least likely to vote.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL things unholy, prove me wrong…
People don't want to admit this, but young people are politically apathetic. Don't believe me? You could easily Google voter demographic turnout in American elections since the 1960s.
Young people just don't vote but love to whine.
I'm not saying this to dissuade people from voting, but the low turnout is a young people problem and I won't hold my breath whether or not they turn up in the next elections.
Who the ever-loving-fuck is being polled? I don't know a single person who even knows a person who has been polled. Fuck these polls.
Not polling; actually voting.
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2017/comm/voting-rates-age.html
18-24 as a group does not vote
If you read the source of your link https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-documentation/methodology.html You would know the census gets that data by polling…
While you still have a choice, while voting still determines who sits that position, yes, you should.
When the alternative is Project 2025? Yes.
18-24 year olds are the least likely to vote.
To be fair, I wouldn’t expect a demographic cohort who are never going to own a house to be keen to turn out and vote for the people who created that situation.
I think it’s worth platforming this particular indigenous perspective outlined in Voting is Not Harm Reduction. Not expounding the point but rather bringing a concertedly marginalized voice into the conversation. https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/
Interesting read, but the article makes some jumps in logic that don't really make any sense to me. Like, you're going to fight white supremacy by handing the reigns over to a white supremacist who intends to become dictator, and don't see that as contradictory? OK? Colonial powers didn't want to allow you to vote, but now that you can, you're giving it up for... reasons?
When it comes down to it, it's basically accelerationism. That's not going to topple capitalism. All that it'll do is result in an unimaginable tragedy and then potentially (if you're lucky) reinstallment of the status quo by outside powers.
I'm sympathetic to the authors position, but it doesn't seem like they've thought this through properly.