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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]Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)17. there were several senators pushing student loan issues
there were even more pushing the right to love and marry whomever you wanted. There were others that talked about affordable health care and staying on family policy for extended periods. There were other that talked about immigration, other about pro choice. All subjects would be shut down by the Reps, and subjects that tend to 'speak' to the younger crowd.
It's in the nature of youth to have little foresight when it comes to the vote and politics. Social media has done a bang up job of suppressing the desire and feeding the apathetic mobilization to vote. Kids don't see the point, and a short visit to DU will confirm the constant haranguing about voting for the lesser of two evils.
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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