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In reply to the discussion: Young people don't vote when the people they would vote for are continually bashed. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)8. No. And stop making the same mistake.
We made the same mistake with the younger half of GenX. They're quite liberal. They support all sorts of liberal policies. We gave them third-way candidates that did not support their beliefs. They stayed home. And continue to do so.
Or to quote Truman:
If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time.
We're making the same mistake with Millennials. And they're not turning out, for the same reason.
We lost this midterm due to cowardice. Liberal causes like expanded gun background checks and reigning in the drug war won. Conservative causes like personhood amendments lost.
We've had an extremely strong economic recovery that our candidates ran in terror from, because it would require mentioning "Obama". We have a program so popular that McConnell had to lie about keeping KyNect while repealing Obamacare, but our candidates were terrified of mentioning Obamacare.
Our candidates gave young people nothing to vote for. So they stayed home.
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Young people don't vote when the people they would vote for are continually bashed. [View all]
joshcryer
Nov 2014
OP
So, you would disenfranchise yourself because someone on the internet hurt your feelings?
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2014
#3
The MSM could have spent six months telling me that Obama eats live kittens
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2014
#25
Maybe they didn't vote because no candidate stood for anything they would vote for.
hobbit709
Nov 2014
#10
Insulate them from mean words, and make it possible to vote on Twitter.
cherokeeprogressive
Nov 2014
#14