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LonePirate

(13,433 posts)
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:08 AM Feb 2022

Here's some of the headwind we're facing in November

https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdSLoqW5/

This guy says he is no longer voting for anyone who won’t reduce his student loans. He’s simply not going to vote unless a candidate (from whatever party) says they are going to address the student loan situation. He even mentions how the threats to democracy are not enough to motivate him to vote.

Republicans are more than happy to have him not vote at all. Democrats cannot let votes like his sit on the sidelines. He is by not the only young voter who feels this way, not by a mile. Young, left-leaning voters have two major concerns: climate change and student loans. So far Biden and Congress have done nothing for either issue in the past 13 months and unless that changes, November is going to be brutal.
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Aviation Pro

(12,219 posts)
1. The only way this numbskull gets some relief from student loans is to vote
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:12 AM
Feb 2022

For the party that is actually considering it. The Bloated Ticks are fine with letting him wallow in student debt until he's 60.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,506 posts)
2. You gotta love these guys.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:15 AM
Feb 2022

So short sighted and ignorant. Just what do they think the fascists are going to do for them?

Silent3

(15,423 posts)
5. Too many idiots think about their vote as a reward they bestow on politicians...
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:40 AM
Feb 2022

...rather than a strategic move to maximize their own benefit and the good of all of society. They get petulant about bestowing that "reward" on those they do not think are worthy of it, damn the actually real-life consequences.

dem4decades

(11,315 posts)
3. Add in those that will sit home if Garland does nothing to the Jan 6th leaders. the "why bother"
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:35 AM
Feb 2022

nonvoter will happen.

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