One pollster sees “flashing red” signs on youth turnout as Gen Z and millennial voters, who are not satisfied with either party, could again play a decisive role in the next election.
Maybe young people who are white, male, conservative, and still have a modicum of their basic human rights, let alone control over their own fucking bodies. If you’re unfortunate enough to have a uterus, I’ll be downright shocked if you choose not to vote.
Do you say that because you aren’t going to vote and have a uterus? If so, because I just want to try to understand that point of view, why would you not vote?
Less people under 29 voted in 2022 than they did in 2018 (28% to 23%). It’s not really a trend. I admire your enthusiasm though hope your convictions are correct.
I imagine just about everyone reading this is going to vote. People are downvoting you because you seem to be assuming that people with a vested interest will reliably vote for that interest, which historically just isn’t true. The reason is usually a sense of futility in voting.
The vast majority of young people don’t vote. In the last election (a midterm), 75% of those young people with a uterus didn’t vote. Even in 2020, a very high turnout presidential year, youth were at about 50%, with young women at 55. You might be planning on voting (and that’s great!), but not everyone will, and only a tiny percentage will bother to vote in the congressional elections that actually matter.
Instead of downvoting me to oblivion why don’t YOU LOT tell me why you wouldn’t vote? Y’all downvoters have female reproductive organs that you no longer have control over?
I imagine just about everyone reading this is going to vote. I think people are downvoting you because you seem to be assuming that people with a vested interest will reliably vote for that interest, which historically just isn’t true. The reasons are usually either simple apathy, or a sense of futility in voting, that “my vote wont make a difference so why bother?” That obviously adds up on such a large scale, but people still think that way.
I mention that interest specifically because its fucking mind blowing to me that I have to mention it at all. There’s PLENTY more to be irate about and vote for.
I used to feel like voting was futile, especially in 2016. I voted and it amounted to nothing. BUT I still voted in 2020. I’m in an echo chamber of my own ‘ideals’ (human rights?) where I see and consume information about youngins voting in droves this upcoming election, and blasting the midterms. Perhaps propaganda?
Lots of my generation (early 20’s) is feeling like it doesn’t matter if we vote or not. The entire time we’ve been able to follow politics it’s been shown over and over that it doesn’t matter how the people vote, if the bad actors want something done, they’ll do it anyways.
I do what I can and vote when I get a ballot (mail in voting is probably the only reason though), but I’m not out there expecting it to matter.
Many people don’t have the luxury of mail in voting. Republicans in the US are actively making it harder to vote, and those barriers work. People may want to vote, but if their only options are spend a day in line (where it’s illegal for volunteers to hand out water) or putting food on the table, most are going to choose food.
Our voting systems encourage non-participation for ‘poors’ - not through outright telling them not to vote, but by making it so hard to vote that no matter how fired up people are they still can’t be heard.
Sadly, be shocked. I got a friend through registering to vote and even offered a ride on election day this past November and she still decided to not bother “because politics are stressful to hear about.”
I’m sorry, cause us to “stay home”? Trust me, NBC. We are not “staying home”. We’re fucking voting the shit out of this cesspool
You wish. Young people are far less likely to vote than older people. Sadly NBC is likely right.
Maybe young people who are white, male, conservative, and still have a modicum of their basic human rights, let alone control over their own fucking bodies. If you’re unfortunate enough to have a uterus, I’ll be downright shocked if you choose not to vote.
Then you’re gonna be shocked, sorry to say.
Do you say that because you aren’t going to vote and have a uterus? If so, because I just want to try to understand that point of view, why would you not vote?
I’m gonna vote, but just like in 2016 when Sanders lost the primary, young people just don’t vote reliably enough to make a difference.
Did the midterms not turn that previous trend around? Let’s just stay delusional then, if we must. Get 'em, youngins
Less people under 29 voted in 2022 than they did in 2018 (28% to 23%). It’s not really a trend. I admire your enthusiasm though hope your convictions are correct.
I imagine just about everyone reading this is going to vote. People are downvoting you because you seem to be assuming that people with a vested interest will reliably vote for that interest, which historically just isn’t true. The reason is usually a sense of futility in voting.
The vast majority of young people don’t vote. In the last election (a midterm), 75% of those young people with a uterus didn’t vote. Even in 2020, a very high turnout presidential year, youth were at about 50%, with young women at 55. You might be planning on voting (and that’s great!), but not everyone will, and only a tiny percentage will bother to vote in the congressional elections that actually matter.
https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/2022-youth-turnout-race-and-gender-reveals-major-inequities
https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/2020-youth-voter-turnout-raceethnicity-and-gender
Instead of downvoting me to oblivion why don’t YOU LOT tell me why you wouldn’t vote? Y’all downvoters have female reproductive organs that you no longer have control over?
I imagine just about everyone reading this is going to vote. I think people are downvoting you because you seem to be assuming that people with a vested interest will reliably vote for that interest, which historically just isn’t true. The reasons are usually either simple apathy, or a sense of futility in voting, that “my vote wont make a difference so why bother?” That obviously adds up on such a large scale, but people still think that way.
I mention that interest specifically because its fucking mind blowing to me that I have to mention it at all. There’s PLENTY more to be irate about and vote for.
I used to feel like voting was futile, especially in 2016. I voted and it amounted to nothing. BUT I still voted in 2020. I’m in an echo chamber of my own ‘ideals’ (human rights?) where I see and consume information about youngins voting in droves this upcoming election, and blasting the midterms. Perhaps propaganda?
Lots of my generation (early 20’s) is feeling like it doesn’t matter if we vote or not. The entire time we’ve been able to follow politics it’s been shown over and over that it doesn’t matter how the people vote, if the bad actors want something done, they’ll do it anyways.
I do what I can and vote when I get a ballot (mail in voting is probably the only reason though), but I’m not out there expecting it to matter.
Many people don’t have the luxury of mail in voting. Republicans in the US are actively making it harder to vote, and those barriers work. People may want to vote, but if their only options are spend a day in line (where it’s illegal for volunteers to hand out water) or putting food on the table, most are going to choose food.
Our voting systems encourage non-participation for ‘poors’ - not through outright telling them not to vote, but by making it so hard to vote that no matter how fired up people are they still can’t be heard.
Sadly, be shocked. I got a friend through registering to vote and even offered a ride on election day this past November and she still decided to not bother “because politics are stressful to hear about.”
They stayed home during midterms. If people were as angry as you and I they would vote in every election. I sure do.
“Perhaps the most notable finding with respect to voter turnout is that 2022 turnout rates were nearly as high as the record-setting 2018 midterm turnout rates. Yet unlike the previous midterm elections, the groups with the highest Democratic voting margins—in particular, young people, Black Americans, women, and white female college graduates—did not show greater turnout increases than other groups, and often displayed lower turnout rates than in the 2018 midterms.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-voter-turnout-data-from-2022-shows-some-surprises-including-lower-turnout-for-youth-women-and-black-americans-in-some-states/