Your Opinion, Please.

[Sympthsical]

22. The internet opened the world and closed the town

I say hello to my neighbors but couldn’t say I actually know them. Even at work, go into the eating areas, and everyone’s lounging about staring at their phones. (And I work for a major tech company. You’d think we’d be tired of being online all day, but we are not).

I agree, local races probably play a lot better with in person appeals. It’s not like my local council member’s commercials aren’t exactly inundating my television or internet. That would be odd. Although my mailbox is definitely not so happy. So very many flyers.

Younger voters just don’t feel the urgency, I think. They don’t know what it’s like to be 32 and realize they can’t buy a house, and maybe we can try to start a family next year. Let’s see where are jobs are then. They don’t get in depth about policy issues, because they don’t connect how it affects them. They’re a little inoculated against life yet. So you’re right, I think, in that a charismatic, appealing figure is more likely to get their attention.

Although, it depends what we mean about younger voters. I still see people referring Millennials as if we’re a bunch of 25 year olds. Tch, some of us are turning 40 this year. Millennials are very much adults with families now. Gen Z are the youngins.