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.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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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.
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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.
They need votes to win first, and if there are voters that would block their victory they would have to accommodate them too.
As for bribes that's another issue and we need to keep their feet to fire and not allow
The vast majority of voters are not that dialed in to politics. They vote for names they recognize, or the name next to the D or R that they support. Name recognition is a commodity you can buy with money. If you asked a candidate whether they would rather have a billionaire donor or 10,000 volunteers, guarantee they would all pick the billionaire.
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.
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......
Its also 8 years old data. We've had a lot change in elections and polling and social media etc.
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.
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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…
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…
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.
More from the cohort should run for office.
They can't, they have to be 35
To run for President, yes. Bur, there are plenty of other offices they could run for at the local and state levels.
How does that change their situation, exactly?
They should turn out FOR THEMSELVES. The fuck?
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