Do you say that because you aren’t going to vote and have a uterus? If so, because I just want to try to understand that point of view, why would you not vote?
I’m gonna vote, but just like in 2016 when Sanders lost the primary, young people just don’t vote reliably enough to make a difference.
Did the midterms not turn that previous trend around? Let’s just stay delusional then, if we must. Get 'em, youngins
The vast majority of young people don’t vote. In the last election (a midterm), 75% of those young people with a uterus didn’t vote. Even in 2020, a very high turnout presidential year, youth were at about 50%, with young women at 55. You might be planning on voting (and that’s great!), but not everyone will, and only a tiny percentage will bother to vote in the congressional elections that actually matter.
https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/2022-youth-turnout-race-and-gender-reveals-major-inequities
https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/2020-youth-voter-turnout-raceethnicity-and-gender
Instead of downvoting me to oblivion why don’t YOU LOT tell me why you wouldn’t vote? Y’all downvoters have female reproductive organs that you no longer have control over?
I imagine just about everyone reading this is going to vote. I think people are downvoting you because you seem to be assuming that people with a vested interest will reliably vote for that interest, which historically just isn’t true. The reasons are usually either simple apathy, or a sense of futility in voting, that “my vote wont make a difference so why bother?” That obviously adds up on such a large scale, but people still think that way.
I imagine just about everyone reading this is going to vote. People are downvoting you because you seem to be assuming that people with a vested interest will reliably vote for that interest, which historically just isn’t true. The reason is usually a sense of futility in voting.
