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.
  • Xeknos@techhub.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I don’t really buy it either. Gen Z and younger seem significantly more pissed off at Republicans, if anything. At least, they ought to be.

    • CafecitoHippo@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Our oldest (tuned 18 in Dec) wanted to register to vote right away and was voting in midterm elections this spring. Our youngest is 17 and he’s already looking forward to being able to vote in the presidential election next year. It seems like them and their friends are absolutely wanting to get out and vote and they’re all very much liberal and we’re in a county in PA that was Trump +16 in 2020.

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.world
      05·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, they SHOULD be.

      And yet they take out their frustrations by posting funny memes on Reddit or snarky comments on Twitter… in other words - gestures that mean nothing. Dumb memes don’t change policies. Voting in numbers does. My generation never had the size of people to ever go up against the Boomers, and yet this younger generation does and time and time again, they prove to be utterly useless. They can go bury their heads in their phone and think watching TikTok all day will solve anything.