Are they really though? Everyday there is a new “GOP IS LOSING!” article but they are still restricting abortion, attacks LGBT people, and changing curriculums to racist dog shit
are they losing or do we just say that to make ourselves feel better about doing nothing about the encroaching fascism?
New strategy. Make more fucking college towns.
You unintentionally(?) came up with a brilliant strategy! Fucking colleges! There’s no way those won’t be popular!
Plus, a ton of people could use some real education in that area.
That’s gonna be tough. Saying this as a recent M.S. graduate of a FL university, I got the hell out. I’m starting a PhD program very soon, but there’s absolutely no way I’m doing it in a state where I’m reasonably worried that the next piece of legislation is going to result in Desantis’ brownshirts arresting me for thought crimes. Red states are dangerous places for academics.
No, no, no… fucking colleges! You know… where you can get a BS in…
Oh, nevermind. It wasn’t a good joke to begin with.
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:
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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.
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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.
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Young people are less religious than ever, while the right wing is using the court to turn us into a theocracy.
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Young people have progressive attitudes about LGBTQ rights, and the Republicans are centering their 2024 campaign on a contest of how bigoted they can be in this area.
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While I agree with all this, the issue is that young people in general are also some of the least likely to go vote. Who cares if you lose the support of a block who isn’t going to vote anyways.
We’re seeing a slow rise in voter participation but even in one of our most active elections ever (midterms 2022 had a whopping 52% participation!), <35% of eligible youth (18-29) actually voted compared to ~58% of 45-64 and ~68% of 65+.
It’s really sad to think about where we could be if just 50% of the youth range had voted in 2020 and 2022, might have had Dems in control of both the house and senate.
I’m sick of Democrats whining about young people. They’ve literally never voted at high rates, the fact they you’re even entertaining the idea of 50% turnout is pure fantasy.
The fact is that zoomers vote at higher rates than every other recent generation did at the same age. We wouldn’t have won 2020 without them.
It’s almost like some people are trying to depress turnout with how much pointless whining they do about everyone under the sun… except the DNC and incompetent establishment leadership of course. Somehow low turnout is never their fault.
Why wouldn’t I complain about my fellow peers being slacktivists and not voting? I vote. I encourage my peers to vote. But so many can’t be bothered and then turn around and complain when the GOP wins and passes shit/blocks good legislation. I refuse to be content with <35% turnout just because it’s better than the past. It’s not enough to outvote the older generation which trends conservative, so it’s not enough for me.
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