• @[email protected]
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    010 months ago

    This is very much a millennial perspective. Looking at a demographic table, it’s overwhelmingly obvious that most Americans are boomers. And older people vote more often than younger people.

    We may see Trump and Biden as weak candidates, but this is literally what they want. It is democracy in action. We just don’t outnumber the older Americans lol. It’s obviously changing. Otherwise Sanders wouldn’t have made it as far as he did in 2016 and 2020.

      • Toes♀
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        310 months ago

        I’m not American, but whenever I talk to my young friends out there they tell me about impossible they’ve made it to go vote. Not being near a bus route, their employers cutting their hours for going out, just a huge hassle for them in general.

        • nicetriangle
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          210 months ago

          Definitely true, but it doesn’t account for everyone under 40 who doesn’t make it out to the polls. A lot of that is apathy or laziness.