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W_HAMILTON

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36. That's not a valid excuse to me because what sort of dumbass would choose the GREATER of two evils?

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 02:03 PM

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It's not like they can abstain from voting and not be impacted by the election. Someone is going to get elected regardless, so why would you take actions that make it so the GREATER of two evils gets elected?

They should stop calling themselves progressive if they are just fine with Republicans winning since Democrats are just """the lesser of two evils.""" We see progress when Democrats win and we see that progress rolled back when Republicans win.

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Young Adults Say Our System Has Completely Failed [View all] applegrove 20 hrs ago OP

Old Adults like me say the same thing. gab13by13 20 hrs ago #1

Old adults like me stage left 17 hrs ago #25

Ditto. And some of us have been saying this for quite some time. None of this started with Trump. KPN 17 hrs ago #32

Vote more. Less than half of people under thirty vote. Get the pukes out should be job #1 Blues Heron 20 hrs ago #2

There response would be angrychair 18 hrs ago #18

That's not a valid excuse to me because what sort of dumbass would choose the GREATER of two evils? W_HAMILTON 16 hrs ago #36

Many are voting as often as they can and still feel this way. WhiskeyGrinder 16 hrs ago #37

The other half of the cohort needs to step up and give us a government that can work for the people. Blues Heron 16 hrs ago #42

That's why, once they have the trifecta again, Dems must: Fiendish Thingy 20 hrs ago #3

Dems should do our thing and say it's conservative Captain Zero 20 hrs ago #4

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer don't seem like the guys to do this. Duncan Grant 18 hrs ago #15

There's nothing wrong with pushing to elect fearless Democrats Fiendish Thingy 18 hrs ago #23

+1 leftstreet 16 hrs ago #38

This drives a lot of what we have seen Renew Deal 20 hrs ago #5

College is now more of a driver of being in debt Bettie 18 hrs ago #14

Do you feel like their college was a waste of money then? MichMan 16 hrs ago #39

No, I don't think it was a waste of money Bettie 16 hrs ago #41

They should start working now if they want Medicare for All by the time they retire librechik 20 hrs ago #6

Young people are not stupid. The Madcap 19 hrs ago #7

They're mixed just like any other group BaronChocula 17 hrs ago #34

And they are correct. Now what are we going to DO about it? And HOW? RockRaven 19 hrs ago #8

Yes GreatGazoo 19 hrs ago #11

Great to see his work named here! mahina 18 hrs ago #19

They're right. Baitball Blogger 19 hrs ago #9

So of course they want to organize and fix it? GreatGazoo 19 hrs ago #10

During Thanksgiving I was around some 27 year olds who blame both parties for their unhappiness. kimbutgar 18 hrs ago #12

Duh. Any system where Donald Trump is elected president, twice, has failed. nt SunSeeker 18 hrs ago #13

THIS orangecrush 18 hrs ago #22

Girl, same. angrychair 18 hrs ago #16

Smart kids. Kid Berwyn 18 hrs ago #17

Did they vote? mcar 18 hrs ago #20

No shit orangecrush 18 hrs ago #21

Shore up Social Security with a focus Prairie_Seagull 17 hrs ago #24

Young people are spot on in that regard as the government has fallen to much into the grip of the wealthy. cstanleytech 17 hrs ago #26

And what did they say that they were going to do about it? ... littlemissmartypants 17 hrs ago #27

Our own *electorate* has completely failed. We have had ample opportunities LeftinOH 17 hrs ago #28

So listening to Joe Rogan didnt fix things Johonny 17 hrs ago #29

Hope they actually get out and vote tinrobot 17 hrs ago #30

"only about half of all young adults say they will probably or definitely vote next year" betsuni 17 hrs ago #31

No kidding, look at all those greedy dinosaurs in Congress! Owens 17 hrs ago #33

But record numbers becoming billionaires moondust 17 hrs ago #35

It has certainly failed most of them Warpy 16 hrs ago #40

I was making $25,000 per year when I was 40.... mike_c 13 hrs ago #43

And yet they fail edhopper 13 hrs ago #44

Has the "on the right track" survey ever came back saying that we were? Wounded Bear 13 hrs ago #45

I would hate to be in my 20s at these times. It would all feel just so useless. Housing costs are so high beaglelover 12 hrs ago #46

Young people are sick of capitalism. BlueTsunami2018 12 hrs ago #47