WTF is wrong with our young people??

[jberryhill]

131. They are systematically excluded from voting

I really wish older people could get over themselves long enough to understand the structural barriers to voting if you are young, at college, or otherwise mobile.

One of my kids, in his twenties, has lived in three different states in the last several months. Was an out-of-State student at college (and thus couldn’t vote there), graduated and moved back here briefly, and has just moved to another state with a long residence requirement before being able to register to vote. He’ll make it in time for November, but the fact of the matter is that unlike old farts who’ve settled down, the requirements for voter registration do not - by design - accommodate college students or highly mobile young people (as indeed they tend to be).

One of my other ones? He is a Dem campaign organizer and legislative coordinator for the state Democratic legislative caucus, and he’s as fucking tired as I am of hearing boomers complain about people his age.