re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🎃

The non-voters were the biggest voting bloc in almost every state in 2016. They have to be reached to break the conservative lie “both sides are the same.” Voter suppression doesn’t have to include pulling polling stations or disenrolling voters; convincing voters they have a choice between “evil A” and “evil B” works just as well.

That’s going to take messaging better than I can do. However, the overwhelming majority of young voters lean Democratic, and voting patterns tend to be fixed for life. They need to be motivated to vote as if their lives depend on it (hence voter drives by March for Our Lives), because they do. The future belongs to them, and they damn well need to vote like their elders do. The Silent Generation and the older Baby Boomer Generation always vote, but their numbers are shrinking. The younger generations already outnumber them if they turn out to vote.

It’s up to us, individually or collectively, to teach and reinforce the most important civic duty a citizen has, exercising the vote.

Use your rights or lose them.

My generation does need to vote more. The problem is too many people want simple answers to complex goings on.