I’d argue that the biggest threat is how much the DNC’s actions continue to turn off young people. The GOP can’t win an election… but the DNC can sure as hell lose one.
Oh no, the people who never show up to vote are going to not show up to vote?
Every young group ever has had this idealized view that they’re the first group of people who invented the protest vote. Then they see the consequences of their lack of engagement and realize throwing their vote away is dumb. This time, it’ll be that nothing changes for the better in Palestine, but their lack of engagement has very real costs to their own access to birth control, air and water quality, and their LGBTQ+ friends all of the sudden have to go back into hiding when the Supreme Court overturns protections for gay marriage (they’ve already signaled they will) and there’s nothing they can do about it for 4 years.
Yup, it fucking sucks… though, I would mention, when I was that age my big election was Bernie vs. Hillary and we did show up before the DNC just discarded our opinions and went with her anyways. I’m not bitter, no sireee.
Anyways, yea, it’d be great if young people didn’t protest vote, but it’d also be great if old people weren’t fucking assholes - the boomers have held onto their political majority for far too long due to the population dip of Gen X and, to a lesser extent, Millenials. Young people wouldn’t have to show up if we got our shit together.
Make no mistake: their numbers are more than sufficient to destroy the country. Fascists don’t need a majority in order to seize power, and MAGAs are a bigger percentage of the US population than the NAZIs ever were of Germany’s.
And it’s not their numbers that makes them a threat, it’s how the system is gamed that gives them grossly disproportionate representation.
I’d argue that the biggest threat is how much the DNC’s actions continue to turn off young people. The GOP can’t win an election… but the DNC can sure as hell lose one.
Oh no, the people who never show up to vote are going to not show up to vote?
Every young group ever has had this idealized view that they’re the first group of people who invented the protest vote. Then they see the consequences of their lack of engagement and realize throwing their vote away is dumb. This time, it’ll be that nothing changes for the better in Palestine, but their lack of engagement has very real costs to their own access to birth control, air and water quality, and their LGBTQ+ friends all of the sudden have to go back into hiding when the Supreme Court overturns protections for gay marriage (they’ve already signaled they will) and there’s nothing they can do about it for 4 years.
Congrats on your tantrum.
Yup, it fucking sucks… though, I would mention, when I was that age my big election was Bernie vs. Hillary and we did show up before the DNC just discarded our opinions and went with her anyways. I’m not bitter, no sireee.
Anyways, yea, it’d be great if young people didn’t protest vote, but it’d also be great if old people weren’t fucking assholes - the boomers have held onto their political majority for far too long due to the population dip of Gen X and, to a lesser extent, Millenials. Young people wouldn’t have to show up if we got our shit together.
Make no mistake: their numbers are more than sufficient to destroy the country. Fascists don’t need a majority in order to seize power, and MAGAs are a bigger percentage of the US population than the NAZIs ever were of Germany’s.