2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We done fucked up. [View all]LeftInTX
(25,154 posts)When I was young, it was war that scared us. But there was also a draft. When I started high school, the voting age was 21. So many kids fought to get the voting age lowered to 18.
Vietnam and that monster Ronald Reagan also motivated me to vote. I voted for uninspiring candidates such as Mondale, Dukakis and Al Gore. What was the other option?
I don't know what to say to motivate you. People will vote when they feel that it is necessary. I think older people vote because they have more life experience and each passing year and situation/hurdle/problem orients them to a new this or that.
I didn't take mid-terms seriously until 1994. (The House had been Democratic my entire life. It had kept Reagan under control) Then came Newt Gingrich. After that, I took mid-terms seriously.
There will be plenty of boring uninspiring candidates in the future, but there will also be plenty of Reagan's, Bushes, Ted Cruz's etc etc