Young voters not voting in primaries is how we got into this situation.
You want politicians who represent you? Gotta vote in primaries! But the elderly, who are a smaller slice of the population, absolutely shit kick the youth in terms of voting in primaries.
Want change? Gotta vote even when it’s not trending on social media.
That’s great! Keep it up! Encourage others!
The problem with democracy is even when you and I do the right stuff, it’s all about encouraging those millions of others. And too many millions of younger voters don’t have your decency/notion of the body politic/whatever your reasons for voting are.
Party leadership has control over primaries and don’t have any legal responsibility to have them be fair or even have them at all.
Whew! Good thing you’ve got an excuse for everything, otherwise you might actually have to do something other than play-act at being a radical on social media.
The primaries being controlled by party leadership is not an “excuse” to not participate in them, it’s just clarifying that that isn’t a sufficient approach.
If you don’t vote in them it doesn’t matter.
If the most vocal young voters had actually shown up for Sanders, who as far as I can tell, offered pretty much everything progressives could realistically ask for, well, we’d be in a very different position.
But, elderly people outvoted the youth ans went centrist Clinton.
Edit: a word
Plenty of older people voted (caucused in my state) for Sanders, including me. And in the general I voted for Clinton anyway. Those who didn’t are why we got trump.
If you do vote in them it may not matter.
The party pulled plenty of shenanigans to stop Sanders from getting the nomination. The US has overthrown governments for less. They aren’t accountable processes.
