Comment on Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 days agoDamn, do you just never pay attention to history? Millennials might start voting more, but Gen Z and younger will not. Why?
Because young people don’t vote. Every fucking election people smoke pure hopium and say “This is the year! The youth are fired up! They’re going to turn out in record numbers and bring about change!” And every fucking election it is the lowest voting demographic, by a HUGE margin.
Young people don’t vote. I do not fucking care what the circumstances are and what you are seeing from online discorce. Young people do not vote.
And if you are holding out for the aging Millennials starting to go to the polls, well expect to keep holding that weight for a long time. Older millennials are beginning to drift more conservative. “How can that be?!” You ask. “Certainly they have been noticing all the stuff going on!” And to that I say; no, they absolutely are not. They are raising families. They are focused on their careers as they start to move into middle/upper management. They are getting dumber just as all generations do once they pass ~40. And conservatism attracts dumb people like flies to a honey-covered statue of a sexy fly.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Hence the conditional statement. I’m not at all delusional enough to think younger people would vote. I started voting as soon as I turned 18 but knew I was an outlier from the get-go as I was the only person under 40 at the polling booths. People under 60 are reactionary and will only vote for a better candidate when the world’s already on fire and it’s mostly too late to prevent a lot of damage.
My only hope is with Mamdani and all the positive press he’s been getting from all his progressive policies. All of this is at least affecting the political discourse enough to nudge the Overton Window a tiny bit back to the left with Democrats.