Current Events > Why is youth voter turnout still such garbage?

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Time and time again young people have supported Bernie but when the time comes to actually show up and vote they ghost. Why is this?

I've also noticed many zoomers don't even know what a primary is WTF??

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Why vote when there isn't any choice on the ballot?

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Young voters are under the impression that their vote doesn't matter (and they're mostly right).

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Because our system is designed to disenfranchise its most beat-up citizens such that the status quo is maintained

Our education system masturbates to the Constitution and the righteousness of Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights Act but NOBODY TEACHES US HOW TO VOTE IN OUR DEMOCRACY

Not to mention voting is most often on school/work days and people who most need the system to change may literally not be able to afford the convenience of voting

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Probably because they don't really understand the primaries

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Young voters are under the impression that their vote doesn't matter (and they're mostly right).

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Doe posted...

Because our system is designed to disenfranchise its most beat-up citizens such that the status quo is maintained

Our education system masturbates to the Constitution and the righteousness of Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights Act but NOBODY TEACHES US HOW TO VOTE IN OUR DEMOCRACY

Not to mention voting is most often on school/work days and people who most need the system to change may literally not be able to afford the convenience of voting

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81% of the 17-29 set voted

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Doe posted...

Because our system is designed to disenfranchise its most beat-up citizens such that the status quo is maintained

Our education system masturbates to the Constitution and the righteousness of Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights Act but NOBODY TEACHES US HOW TO VOTE IN OUR DEMOCRACY

Not to mention voting is most often on school/work days and people who most need the system to change may literally not be able to afford the convenience of voting

If you have to be taught how to vote you're not a functional adult. My mentally disabled sister can vote.

Also, voting sites are open for 14 hours.

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I see a lot of excuses. I know my generation well (millenial) and we really are a bunch of apathetic lazy fucks. Well at least in America, the youth in other countries give me some hope for the future.

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This probably doesn't help:
https://twitter.com/christofspieler/status/1235014819423674368
https://twitter.com/SophiaArmen/status/1234980966768136193
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Doe posted...

Our education system masturbates to the Constitution and the righteousness of Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights Act but NOBODY TEACHES US HOW TO VOTE IN OUR DEMOCRACY

The state shouldnt be teaching you how to vote. That's how dictatorships start.

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Most young people don't give a shit, regardless of what the media portrays.

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Who wants uninvolved people to vote?

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Because they'd rather complain about things and make sarcastic meme-y comments on social media then actually go out and do something tangible.

The government wont accept my social media posts to count as an official vote.

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You may want to delete that and rethink the implications of what you just typed. @Duncanwii

But yeah, when there's so many things tailor made to discourage the youth vote.... I understand why some of them don't believe their vote matters.

It's a shame because that's exactly the mentality assholes want to keep their status quo. Some of them literally being unable to get a day off work/school to vote is an issue as stated above. You can say "Just vote early!" but some undecided people may hold off on that to get more info....

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Better things to do

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Antifar posted...

This probably doesn't help:
https://twitter.com/christofspieler/status/1235014819423674368
https://twitter.com/SophiaArmen/status/1234980966768136193

This is almost as bad as the DMV

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As an older millennial, I've already completed college and finally found a good stable career. This apathy for the democratic process is going to hurt you younger folks much more than it will hurt me.

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You can blame universal suffrage and democracy for that. Its impossible for individual votes to matter amongst a popualtion so big, and trying to appease a country of so many is next to impossible.

This is why the Democrats have resorted to trying to offer free everything. It's just a sad attempt at trying to appease as broad a demographic as possible. Unfortunately such handouts only benefit the low class and poor. Who arent the fucking majority, have no money to support them, nor give a damn about anything aside from their current benefits to actually get out and vote.


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Laziness and not knowing what an absentee ballot is.

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Imo the vocal youth you hear that actually cares did vote. But most people simply don't care. Or distrust politicians in general.

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younger people are pickier when they vote for someone. their opinion can easily be swayed with just one or two bad statements. if you mostly agree with someone, but don't fully agree with them, you're less likely to vote for them.

also just overall lack of knowledge. unless you take the time to research policies on your own (and most younger people have absolutely no desire to do this), you don't really know exactly what you're voting for.

and then just laziness and/or their attention being completely self-centered on their own personal lives and successes.

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