• TPetrichor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        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?

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          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.

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            Did the midterms not turn that previous trend around? Let’s just stay delusional then, if we must. Get 'em, youngins

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              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.

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          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?

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            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.

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              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?

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          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.

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          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

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      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.

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      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.”