Here’s Why Gen Z Voters Might Opt Out in 2024
teenvogue.com
In a matchup between Biden and Trump, many young voters say they might choose silence.
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In a matchup between Biden and Trump, many young voters say they might choose silence.
If you don't vote, you may lose the opportunity next time. Fascists don't exactly like democratic voting systems.
Politics is messy. This just sounds like a bunch of over-privileged naive people who are afraid to get their hands a little dirty.
I blame the whole “voting changes things” culture. We tell kids that voting and politics means something and then when they learn how it actually works they get disheartened.
If we lower their expectations I bet they would vote more. Drop the idea that government will be responsive and filled with intelligent statesmen. Forget about any sort of relief or change. Vote for the one who will make politics boring. Vote because these idiots don't know anything and couldn't govern their way out of a paper bag.
Voting clearly does change things. It's how we got Trump, and he changed a lot of things for the worse. It's how Texas got Greg Abbott and Florida got Ron DeSantis, both people who've been changing things a lot.
Maybe you can't get the charges you really want, but it's just as important to prevent bad changes.
Oh yeah, telling people, "Oh don't worry, nothing will change and we will head endlessly into the climate change cliff! Your future is fucked and nobody cares to enact change, all you can do is creep further into corporate dystopia while voting for people who do nothing to stop it." Great plan, I'm sure that will galvanize young voters.
I mean, if you want to tell them differently, how do you expect they'll react once they know that what you're telling them is a lie?
Sounds much more like propaganda to sow intergenerational infighting (and it's working), to me.
The whole "boomer" rhetoric was that kind of propaganda as well. It is all effective means to divide and conquer voting blocs who, regardless of age, should be united against Republicans, and it works very well.
As someone else in the comments called it, it's "Everybody's Doing It" propaganda.