2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We done fucked up. [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)First, I find it amazing that in a thread explaining (and very well, I might add) exactly why millennial don't vote, the first thing that happens is people come to do exactly that. We say that no one is listening, that the Democratic party has left us high and dry for the past 20 years, that people do nothing but dismiss us. What's the first thing that happens in this thread? People come to call us lazy-ass whining crybabies, in almost that exact language, and proceed to dismiss everything we have to say. To them I say: well done! You're doing a great job making sure even fewer turn out next election.
Second, the attacks on millennial have been vicious and far over the top. Imagine if the black turnout had been this low. Do you think people on this board would be yelling at them to "get off their lazy asses"? Because oddly enough, I don't. Millennial are an easy target because we're young. We can be dismissed. We don't know anything yet, and so we should just leave the politics to the adults and shut up and vote, despite the fact that leaving politics to the "sensible adults" in the party is exactly why we're in this mess and why we lost this election.