Gen Z is often dismissed as apathetic. But interviews with leading scholars suggest otherwise: a generation coming of age amid crises in housing, work, and political institutions is not losing faith in politics but in the promises of capitalism.
The problem was when Obama let us down then, too many people walked away thinking that somehow getting less involved in politics would somehow fix things.
To be clear the problem was Obama and his refusal to name a progressive DNC chair and just in general ignoring the party and leaving Hillary and her dirty money as the only option.
But voters need to respond to that shit by being more informed and voting even harder. Not by checking out of the political process
The democrat party apparatus relies upon operatives all throughout the smaller, local administrative roles–establishment insiders in the pockets of the party aristocracy–to rig the primary elections from the ground on upward against progressive challengers.
The only way to strip that capability away from them is to rip out the incumbents IN THE PRIMARIES all the way down to where you live. And the way you do that is:
You DON’T just vote in the national scale elections; rather, you instead vote in EVERY LOCAL ELECTION TOO. Anytime an incumbent is challenged–ESPECIALLY if the challengers have actual good policy in their platforms–you HAVE to vote for the challengers.
Calling it “voting harder” is disingenuous and both undercuts as well as mischaracterizes what is ACTUALLY necessary, which is participating more often.
there is a fundamental difference between frequency and amplitude. Everyone intrinsically knows there is no such thing as “VOTING HARDER”; meanwhile, too few people know that they can–AND SHOULD–vote More Often.
Hell, fascists practically ONLY win when voter turnout is low, and they know it. it’s literally the ENTIRE REASON they push so very hard to disenfranchise voters. Any increase in voter participation is the very last thing fascists want. That alone makes it morally and ethically superior to motivate more frequent voter participation in every POSSIBLE context.
I’m so fucking tired of dipshits playing right into conservatoids’ hands when they think refusing to vote will do JACK FUCKING SHIT about the centrists… Except to let them ratchet even further rightward.
The democrat party apparatus relies upon operatives all throughout the smaller, local administrative roles–establishment insiders in the pockets of the party aristocracy–to rig the primary elections from the ground on upward against progressive challengers
If it was 2024 you’d be making a lot of sense…
But you’re 18 months behind and saying all that a few months before the midterms…
Kind of makes your ignorance suspicious when you “care” enough to type that much
Weird to see them act like that’s not political, or that it’s new to Gen z…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
The problem was when Obama let us down then, too many people walked away thinking that somehow getting less involved in politics would somehow fix things.
To be clear the problem was Obama and his refusal to name a progressive DNC chair and just in general ignoring the party and leaving Hillary and her dirty money as the only option.
But voters need to respond to that shit by being more informed and voting even harder. Not by checking out of the political process
The democrat party apparatus relies upon operatives all throughout the smaller, local administrative roles–establishment insiders in the pockets of the party aristocracy–to rig the primary elections from the ground on upward against progressive challengers.
The only way to strip that capability away from them is to rip out the incumbents IN THE PRIMARIES all the way down to where you live. And the way you do that is:
You DON’T just vote in the national scale elections; rather, you instead vote in EVERY LOCAL ELECTION TOO. Anytime an incumbent is challenged–ESPECIALLY if the challengers have actual good policy in their platforms–you HAVE to vote for the challengers.
Calling it “voting harder” is disingenuous and both undercuts as well as mischaracterizes what is ACTUALLY necessary, which is participating more often.
there is a fundamental difference between frequency and amplitude. Everyone intrinsically knows there is no such thing as “VOTING HARDER”; meanwhile, too few people know that they can–AND SHOULD–vote More Often.
Hell, fascists practically ONLY win when voter turnout is low, and they know it. it’s literally the ENTIRE REASON they push so very hard to disenfranchise voters. Any increase in voter participation is the very last thing fascists want. That alone makes it morally and ethically superior to motivate more frequent voter participation in every POSSIBLE context.
I’m so fucking tired of dipshits playing right into conservatoids’ hands when they think refusing to vote will do JACK FUCKING SHIT about the centrists… Except to let them ratchet even further rightward.
If it was 2024 you’d be making a lot of sense…
But you’re 18 months behind and saying all that a few months before the midterms…
Kind of makes your ignorance suspicious when you “care” enough to type that much