People will either stop voting for Republicans next year or the blue wave will hit with such intensity. Younger people are despised by the clown show called the Republican Party
What does the right have to offer them besides taking away their bodily autonomy or ability to dress how they want while reading a book outloud?
As they should. What have Republicans done for any young person other than restrict their freedoms?
I was a leftist a quarter-century ago and I’m still one. The only thing that’s changed is that I’m angrier now because I’m better informed.
“Electorate is becoming media savvy.”
“Electorate is becoming media savvy.”
Makes sense…the Republican party has literally been the party of “no” ever since I’ve been alive. It’s all I know them as. A party that says no to everything, gives rich people more money and power with inequality at it’s highest, and the constant fear is exhausting. Fear of a woman making her own personal decision, fear of some trans person hiding in a bathroom to molest a kid, fear of constant outside terrorism when it’s all been mostly happening from the inside. Not to mention the blatant ignoring of facts….climate change being a hoax and all. Now mix this stuff all in with “Christian values” ….I just can’t get onboard with this party because everything they do is hollow….every policy (when they actually have one) is nefarious or has insidious intentions. It’s never good for the country, but good for their friends and connections. It’s a party that doesn’t even look like me or the communities I’ve grown up in….it’s just a bunch of old ass white men. No diversity whatsoever. They want to take things back to 50s and 60s….even though 2024 is right around the corner.
This is why, as a millennial, I cannot and will not ever vote for the Republican party
Edit: I also want to add that it would be almost un-American of me to vote for the Republican party. They are now the Authoritarian Dictatorship party…a coup and insurrectionist party…..who backed an unwell, criminally corrupted mad man at the expense of the entire country… and still do.
I think people might continue trending conservative over time if they felt that the status quo worked for them. But it clearly does not, and that sentiment is more overwhelming than it’s ever been before.
Gen Xer here, I sure hope so because my generation seems to be boomerizing to some degree and I hate it.
I’m a boomer born in the 1960s & I am appalled by my generation. I can’t wait for the younger generation to take over & make their liberal mark.
Oh no, young people don’t eat the shit old people try to feed them. How awful.
My youngest is Gen Z and lives with his mother. They live with her parents. They’re all very republican except him. He leans left. We’ve occasionally had some interesting conversations. I try not to influence him to think the way I do but I do tell him to pay attention to what these politicians are doing. Who they blame for things. Who takes responsibility. Etc.
It’s 90 fucking degrees in late October and Republicans still want to hem and haw over whether or not climate change is real, what do they expect will happen?
I’m not sure I would say “tilting left” as much as “watching a political party officially embrace sexism, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-democracy, anti-science, and the police state while emboldening all the stupidest people you know,” but I’ll accept the win.
There is literally nothing in the party platform for anyone who makes <$400k/yr and/or isn’t a religious fundamentalist.
Hard to become a “conservative” when you’ve been given literally nothing to conserve your entire life.
I’m 40. College educated and high earner. I’m a proud Democrat and will never vote for GOP in my lifetime after all the shit they’ve done. Bush 2000, gulf war, GFC, Trump, 2020, J6, Roe v Wade, etc.
Gee I wonder why? It couldn’t be that the GOP has become the party of hatred and actively opposes anything that would improve the lives of young people. It couldn’t be that they’re responsible for thwarting meaningful climate action and continue to deny materially observable reality at the behest of fossil fuel companies. It couldn’t be that a substantial portion of young people are either LGBT or unequivocally support LGBT rights. Nahhhhh
If Republicans get there way, Gen Z and Millennials won’t be able to vote.
We need to show up and ensure we can start the tides of change.
Gen X, I keep going more left the older and wealthier I get.
and why wouldn’t we?
As an old millenial (turnin 40 soon) the fucking republican party has been nothing but religious whackjobs, facists, and i assume some that are good people (hah) since i was like 12 when Newt Gingrich started his whole war on democracy bullshit.
Yea no shit.
Republicans are offering nothing for the younger generation. And on top of that, they actively spurn and mock their concerns (economy, body autonomy, climate, healthcare, etc).
What a fucking surprise that Millennials and Gen Z aren’t voting Republican.
I just don’t understand how right wingers were expecting this to go.
I grew up watching mass shootings and a failed war on terror on the TV and reading about how Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush fucked up the country by weakening unions, regulations, and public institutions for the benefit of the rich.
Now I’m in my 30s and can’t afford a studio condo in any coastal city. Let alone a home. Why would I swing right?
I’m Gen X and every day conservatives are finding new and creative ways to make sure I don’t want to vote for them. I honestly wish they would stop. I would absolutely **LOVE** to have a hard time deciding who to vote for. Can you imagine if both candidates were so good that it was hard to decide? Doesn’t that sound delightful? It does to me. It also sounds like an absurd impossibility at this point. I’m an independent and the Republican party seems determined to try and convince me to become a registered Democrat.
It isn’t like I think the Democrats are perfect by any means, they just aren’t malicious clown shoes like the Republican party has become. Republicans are led by Trump; a habitual liar, adulterer, con man, who tried to undermine our democratic process, broke the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation’s history, and is currently charged with 91 felonies, but for some reason, Republicans seem to think that’s fine. What in the actual fuck is that about? It makes no sense… and it leaves me with one option. Vote for Democrats every election because the alternative is repugnant.
I am 43. I will never vote for a Republican, for anything. Their track record is nothing but harming the greatest number of people possible, except for wealthy, white ones. And I say that as a white person with some money.
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People will either stop voting for Republicans next year or the blue wave will hit with such intensity. Younger people are despised by the clown show called the Republican Party
What does the right have to offer them besides taking away their bodily autonomy or ability to dress how they want while reading a book outloud?
As they should. What have Republicans done for any young person other than restrict their freedoms?
I was a leftist a quarter-century ago and I’m still one. The only thing that’s changed is that I’m angrier now because I’m better informed.
“Electorate is becoming media savvy.”
“Electorate is becoming media savvy.”
Makes sense…the Republican party has literally been the party of “no” ever since I’ve been alive. It’s all I know them as. A party that says no to everything, gives rich people more money and power with inequality at it’s highest, and the constant fear is exhausting. Fear of a woman making her own personal decision, fear of some trans person hiding in a bathroom to molest a kid, fear of constant outside terrorism when it’s all been mostly happening from the inside. Not to mention the blatant ignoring of facts….climate change being a hoax and all. Now mix this stuff all in with “Christian values” ….I just can’t get onboard with this party because everything they do is hollow….every policy (when they actually have one) is nefarious or has insidious intentions. It’s never good for the country, but good for their friends and connections. It’s a party that doesn’t even look like me or the communities I’ve grown up in….it’s just a bunch of old ass white men. No diversity whatsoever. They want to take things back to 50s and 60s….even though 2024 is right around the corner.
This is why, as a millennial, I cannot and will not ever vote for the Republican party
Edit: I also want to add that it would be almost un-American of me to vote for the Republican party. They are now the Authoritarian Dictatorship party…a coup and insurrectionist party…..who backed an unwell, criminally corrupted mad man at the expense of the entire country… and still do.
I think people might continue trending conservative over time if they felt that the status quo worked for them. But it clearly does not, and that sentiment is more overwhelming than it’s ever been before.
Gen Xer here, I sure hope so because my generation seems to be boomerizing to some degree and I hate it.
I’m a boomer born in the 1960s & I am appalled by my generation. I can’t wait for the younger generation to take over & make their liberal mark.
Oh no, young people don’t eat the shit old people try to feed them. How awful.
My youngest is Gen Z and lives with his mother. They live with her parents. They’re all very republican except him. He leans left. We’ve occasionally had some interesting conversations. I try not to influence him to think the way I do but I do tell him to pay attention to what these politicians are doing. Who they blame for things. Who takes responsibility. Etc.
It’s 90 fucking degrees in late October and Republicans still want to hem and haw over whether or not climate change is real, what do they expect will happen?
I’m not sure I would say “tilting left” as much as “watching a political party officially embrace sexism, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, anti-democracy, anti-science, and the police state while emboldening all the stupidest people you know,” but I’ll accept the win.
There is literally nothing in the party platform for anyone who makes <$400k/yr and/or isn’t a religious fundamentalist.
Hard to become a “conservative” when you’ve been given literally nothing to conserve your entire life.
I’m 40. College educated and high earner. I’m a proud Democrat and will never vote for GOP in my lifetime after all the shit they’ve done. Bush 2000, gulf war, GFC, Trump, 2020, J6, Roe v Wade, etc.
Gee I wonder why? It couldn’t be that the GOP has become the party of hatred and actively opposes anything that would improve the lives of young people. It couldn’t be that they’re responsible for thwarting meaningful climate action and continue to deny materially observable reality at the behest of fossil fuel companies. It couldn’t be that a substantial portion of young people are either LGBT or unequivocally support LGBT rights. Nahhhhh
If Republicans get there way, Gen Z and Millennials won’t be able to vote.
We need to show up and ensure we can start the tides of change.
Gen X, I keep going more left the older and wealthier I get.
and why wouldn’t we?
As an old millenial (turnin 40 soon) the fucking republican party has been nothing but religious whackjobs, facists, and i assume some that are good people (hah) since i was like 12 when Newt Gingrich started his whole war on democracy bullshit.
Yea no shit.
Republicans are offering nothing for the younger generation. And on top of that, they actively spurn and mock their concerns (economy, body autonomy, climate, healthcare, etc).
What a fucking surprise that Millennials and Gen Z aren’t voting Republican.
I just don’t understand how right wingers were expecting this to go.
I grew up watching mass shootings and a failed war on terror on the TV and reading about how Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush fucked up the country by weakening unions, regulations, and public institutions for the benefit of the rich.
Now I’m in my 30s and can’t afford a studio condo in any coastal city. Let alone a home. Why would I swing right?
I’m Gen X and every day conservatives are finding new and creative ways to make sure I don’t want to vote for them. I honestly wish they would stop. I would absolutely **LOVE** to have a hard time deciding who to vote for. Can you imagine if both candidates were so good that it was hard to decide? Doesn’t that sound delightful? It does to me. It also sounds like an absurd impossibility at this point. I’m an independent and the Republican party seems determined to try and convince me to become a registered Democrat.
It isn’t like I think the Democrats are perfect by any means, they just aren’t malicious clown shoes like the Republican party has become. Republicans are led by Trump; a habitual liar, adulterer, con man, who tried to undermine our democratic process, broke the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our nation’s history, and is currently charged with 91 felonies, but for some reason, Republicans seem to think that’s fine. What in the actual fuck is that about? It makes no sense… and it leaves me with one option. Vote for Democrats every election because the alternative is repugnant.
I am 43. I will never vote for a Republican, for anything. Their track record is nothing but harming the greatest number of people possible, except for wealthy, white ones. And I say that as a white person with some money.