Kids might just turn (comparatively) more conservative with age. I think that’s what has been happening for a while
I think it’s not quite the case that people get more conservative as they age. It’s that policies and goals throughout society tend to get more progressive with time – as we learn more about our needs and those of others – while personal ideologies tend to crystallize with age. When one generation solves a problem, the next generation starts looking for new problems to tackle. The trouble is that we have to do that while dragging the previous generations, kicking and screaming, towards something more broadly beneficial to society because they think they’ve already got it all figured out. The evolution of our understanding of the world doesn’t end with our generation, no matter how much effort we put in. 🤷
Pretty sure the white privilege has dried up for that outside of the most racist places.
Kids have turned out to vote Democrat and the promised change did not manifest. Remaining in status quo without progress does not motivate them to vote.
If only there was one very global event currently close to the heart of genZ that might influence their willingness to vote for Kamala Harris, who has openly supported the continuation of said global event at the convention of a PAC dedicated to the continuation of said global event.
Maybe there are other particular issues that affect genZ which the democrats have consistently ignored up until election season.
Maybe the assumption that Democrats are owed votes is the reason they’re having such a hard time with the republicans?
Mighty big leap in logic to assume all those youngsters would vote democrat. More Democrat Vs Republican bullshit. Ya know what it would look like if we had “no confidence” as an option? No one other than biden would have actually won presidency in the last 40yrs. That’s what would happen if our voting system was fixed. Not some imaginary blue wave for k Harris. That’s literally opium pipe dreams. Not voting is more indicative of hating the voting options than it is of apathy. They fear the actual will of the people, its why we won’t get a candidate we choose.
“If”
Democratic voters are unreliable. They could probably get everything they wanted if once a year they took an hour or two out of their day to go vote. Instead they’ve let Republicans take over in a large number of counties and we have to deal with all these fucking jackasses in Congress blocking anything from happening. Democrats and youth voters would rather bitch and whine about Republicans than actually just vote when it matters.
“Democratic voters” are unreliable because Democrats do not deliver, simple as that. Public healthcare, cannabis legalization, not-funding-a-genocide. Kamala is promising none of these things. Kamala is promising that America will have the most lethal military in the world. Kamala is promising America will support Israel’s “right to defend itself”. Kamala is promising a “secure border”.
Barring Tim Walz and a few policies, Kamala is running a campaign that the republicans of the Bush era would support wholeheartedly. Democrats consistently run campaigns on the premise that they are better than republicans, then quietly shift their policies towards the right. 4 years ago the they ran on not caging children and ruthlessly deporting families, now they’re running on “strong border” rhetoric.
Stop blaming voters for the Democrats inability to run on and enact good policy.
Democratic voters would be winning if it wasn’t for gerrymandering. The fact is, they are playing against a loaded deck.
There are a lot more reasons for why young people don’t vote as much than just them being lazy. For example, young people move a lot more often than old people, so they have to update their voter registration. And if they don’t do that those two hours of their life they have to take off are meaningless.
Also, I highly doubt I’d get everything I wanted even if Democrats ran the entire country from bottom to top, because what I want isn’t terribly popular even among Democrats.
4 years ago the dems ran on not caging children at the border, now Kamala is running on how she’s going to sign a republican border bill and “secure our border”.
Is it really that hard to imagine why some voters might feel apathetic about voting for democrats?
People are fucking stupid.
They think just because one side uses words that are prettier to them they arent driving the train to the same fuckinh station.
Vote democrate - its the only way is a LIE they tell themselves to avoid having to actually take responsibility.
The only way to get shit to change is to say
NO. I won’t allow this corrupt 2 party system to continue any longer.
I wouldn’t say it’s even necessarily laziness, probably just general apathy with anything remotely political and using Democrat ineffectiveness as an excuse that “nothing will ever change”. Change is slow and takes committed effort, year after year, seemingly nobody has time for that.
If I hadn’t been in a family with a deep interest in politics I’d avoid it, too. People get really mad about it, and I’ve got enough shit going on that I don’t need to watch a nationwide argument every year on top of it.
But thanks to my parents I get to deal with all the political shit and all the normal shit.
youth voters would rather bitch and whine about Republicans than actually just vote when it matters
Back when Bernie ran and lost the nomination it was argument after argument of young voters who bitched and whined and claimed they either weren’t gonna vote or vote 3rd party out of protest.