I’m sorry, cause us to “stay home”? Trust me, NBC. We are not “staying home”. We’re fucking voting the shit out of this cesspool
You wish. Young people are far less likely to vote than older people. Sadly NBC is likely right.
Maybe young people who are white, male, conservative, and still have a modicum of their basic human rights, let alone control over their own fucking bodies. If you’re unfortunate enough to have a uterus, I’ll be downright shocked if you choose not to vote.
Lots of my generation (early 20’s) is feeling like it doesn’t matter if we vote or not. The entire time we’ve been able to follow politics it’s been shown over and over that it doesn’t matter how the people vote, if the bad actors want something done, they’ll do it anyways.
I do what I can and vote when I get a ballot (mail in voting is probably the only reason though), but I’m not out there expecting it to matter.
Many people don’t have the luxury of mail in voting. Republicans in the US are actively making it harder to vote, and those barriers work. People may want to vote, but if their only options are spend a day in line (where it’s illegal for volunteers to hand out water) or putting food on the table, most are going to choose food.
Our voting systems encourage non-participation for ‘poors’ - not through outright telling them not to vote, but by making it so hard to vote that no matter how fired up people are they still can’t be heard.
They stayed home during midterms. If people were as angry as you and I they would vote in every election. I sure do.
“Perhaps the most notable finding with respect to voter turnout is that 2022 turnout rates were nearly as high as the record-setting 2018 midterm turnout rates. Yet unlike the previous midterm elections, the groups with the highest Democratic voting margins—in particular, young people, Black Americans, women, and white female college graduates—did not show greater turnout increases than other groups, and often displayed lower turnout rates than in the 2018 midterms.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-voter-turnout-data-from-2022-shows-some-surprises-including-lower-turnout-for-youth-women-and-black-americans-in-some-states/
