re: #178 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’m in hopes that a lot of younger people (especially) who haven’t been voting because “My vote doesn’t make any difference” may get out and vote this time because they’re mad as hell and just can’t take it any more. Then when they see their vote actually make a difference, they’ll keep doing it.

It’s one of the things I don’t get about Millenial (Gen Y) bashing. The earliest Millenials are already near forty (starting at 1980 for a point). Millenials at the older end of the cohort are already approaching middle age, have jobs or children (or both), crushing college debts thanks to GOP policies put in place starting with Reagan, &c.

Even the oldest of Gen Z is now old enough to vote.

Of those groups most likely to vote, the Greatest Generation is nearly gone, the Silent Generation (including my mother) is almost gone, and Baby Boomers on the old end are also disappearing rapidly. (I’m on the young end.)

How people vote early in their life pretty much determines how they vote all their life, and if Gens X-Z are learning just how crappy GOP policies have been since before they were born, rigging the game so they can never get ahead, most will align lifelong away from the GOP.

Maybe this election won’t be the one to make a difference (but the early numbers sure look like it is), but it won’t be too much longer.