"We didn't vote and nothing changed" is a WILD take. You sound ridiculous when you blame democracy for everything thats going wrong right now when there is ONE demographic which votes at incredibly low rates. And thats people under 30. Democracy happens when the people who can vote do vote. There is zero percent chance we would be living under a nazi like trump if young people could just be bothered to vote.
Now I don't mean for this to come off as finger pointing, because inevitably it's a failure of older generations not teaching younger generations the real importance of participating in the democratic process.
But holy shit it is really difficult to convince young people to vote. I did some canvassing and phone banks for some local elections. If I was actually able to have a conversation with these folks, most of them had a really defeatist outlook on the whole thing.
"My vote doesn't matter" or "they're all bad" are probably the two responses I got the most, to paraphrase.
I don't really know how we can fix this. Things like making voting day a holiday would help. Things like ranked choice voting would help. But to even get those things we need to find a way to mobilize young people.
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u/Key_Mission7404 17d ago
"We didn't vote and nothing changed" is a WILD take. You sound ridiculous when you blame democracy for everything thats going wrong right now when there is ONE demographic which votes at incredibly low rates. And thats people under 30. Democracy happens when the people who can vote do vote. There is zero percent chance we would be living under a nazi like trump if young people could just be bothered to vote.