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We were molded by hard times

That and minority voters will become the majority voting block and overwhelmingly swing liberal.

Gen X here, been progressive since long before I knew there was a term for it. All I can say is it's about fucking time.

Not enough millenials and Gen Z are getting off their asses to vote. There is ZERO good reason boomers + Gen X still comprise the majority voting block.

We just lost the Wisconsin Dem governor primary to an AIPAC allied Dem because of this. Younger people need to get their collective shit together. Its their future that their inaction is fucking up.

Millennials have been able to vote for decades now don’t see it making any difference.

Turns out this generation is just as susceptible to propaganda and misinformation as every prior generation. I guess this means we can stop saying "Blame the Boomers" every time the country shits the bed?

And no Gen Z or Alpha is not going to save anything

Millennials might be the tail end of the Fuck Around generation, depending on how we wrap up the 2020s.

Gen z & α aren't going to have the luxuries of cheap(ish) real estate, surplus fossil fuels, abundant exploitable labor and materials, or a financial sector squatting on the esophagus of international trade. We broke all the post-Cold War levers of international control. We're very likely going to be dealing with one or two more self-inflicted pandemics, if RFK Jr has his way. And our most lucrative satraps - Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Canada - aren't going to be in a position to prop us up if we tank the global economy again, like we did in '08, '14, and '20.

Maybe this will curb our worst impulses. Maybe Gen z won't be as inclined to carpet bomb a Middle Eastern country or a South American coastline if we've long since burned ourselves out of anti-ballistic interceptors and seaworthy aircraft carriers. Or maybe they'll reinvent fascism from first principles and just invade Ottowa because it's easier. Idfk.

But I do think we're far downstream of Allen Dulles doing regime change across half the world from a smoke-filled room in Langley. We're far downstream of white flight into suburban sprawl and every middle-income family owning a fleet of SUVs and everyone having a childhood memory of vacationing in Disney World and this one weird guy becoming a billionaire because he's the first guy in the country who thought about importing screwdrivers from China. The next generations are not going to have the raw materials to replicate what prior generations performed. They will have to behave differently by necessity.

Can't be a candidate until you are at least 35, pretty much. Millennials are just now getting to the right amount of experience in politics and age group to run for political positions.

People don’t really start to vote until they are 40.

What you're forgetting is boomers are dying.

Many voters have been disillusioned. Why bother voting, if it's just the same two brands of getiatric cunts.

What seems to be changing, as far as I can tell, is that they're developing a sense for the power of primaries and more regional elections to shift the position of the less malignant brand.

The best indicator of success is the reaction of the Dem leadership: They weren't as concerned about losing to the Reps as they were about this "insurrection" threatening their slow, balanced slide by actually tugging on that rope.

Vote by mail if it is an option. Those machines are rigged, Trump and Musk both admitted this before the last election. Mail in voting is infinitely harder to fuck with as there is a human, being watched by other humans, doing the count check.

As newthrowaway reminded me, hand drop off your mail in ballot.

I mean, I'd love to do that but, unless you're giving me a couple thousand bucks and a farm sitter, I'm not getting to the shithole state I'm from. Apparently I'm a fascist for living on the other side of the world despite voting for the most progressive people on the ballot.