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And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in poli
by pimmen 8y ago
And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don't know, not having the election on a weekday that makes no difference for retired people but all the difference in the world to minimum wage employees living pay check to pay check? And make it harder for ISPs to screw over rural people?).
- funkythings 8y agoYoung people have always been less interested in politics. Just because you/we don't like how the elderly are voting, we don't have to make this a bigger issue than it is.
- pjc50 8y ago> Young people have always been less interested in politics. 1968 would like a word.
- LanceH 8y agoYea, they showed up in record numbers to vote for....Nixon was it?
- jessaustin 8y agoI hope you're referring to the civil rights movement, and not to those who elected Nixon so we could have a Drug War and stay in Vietnam for another seven years.
- refurb 8y agoNixon was the president that extricated the US from Vietnam through the peace talks. And the US' involvement only lasted another 5 years, not 7 years.
- dplgk 8y agoIs digital literacy the problem? Believing that a prominent politician ran a prostitution ring is a basic reasoning problem. I think we'll have to wait until they die off.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoThey are taking Dominique Strauss-Kahn down for exactly that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn
- akiselev 8y agoDid his pizza shoppe actually have a basement, though?
- sonnyblarney 8y agoAllison Mack, some other prominent actors, and several members of the Bronfman family are going down for running a sex ring. Some of the circumstances are crazy. It would seem like fake news at first glance surely. It's downright bizarre. I certainly would have written it off as 'National Enquirer' were it not out of super credible institutions. Sometimes it's hard to tell what is 'truth' and the major 'credible' news agencies simply don't cover a lot of things.
- pjc50 8y ago> were it not out of super credible institutions. Indeed. And there's a huge war over creditability. It's expensive to maintain and it suits some people to destroy it entirely.
- jessaustin 8y agoOr consider that horrible Jeffrey Epstein. Not a politician, but he hosted politicians on his island of victimized children. Now we've learned that federal prosecutors colluded with his defense team to fool the courts into letting him off with a few months in a part-time minimum-security resort prison. It was fortunate for him that he had cultivated friendships with those in power! It was unfortunate for the little girls, how he cultivated those friendships...
- RightMillennial 8y agoAren't employers legally required to give you time off to vote? In roughly half of the states it's paid time off as well.
- moreira 8y agoThey might be, but is it paid time off? If it's not, then many people may choose to work instead. Especially shift workers being paid on an hourly basis rather than salary.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Aren't employers legally required to give you time off to vote? Only 30 states require this (no federal requirement exists), and not all of them required paid time off to vote. https://www.businessinsider.com/can-i-leave-work-early-to-vote-2016-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/can-i-leave-work-early-to-vo...
- pimmen 8y agoThe states that don't offer time off controls a very large portion of the electoral college votes, unfortunately. The ones that offer paid time off are at a real disadvantage because of the electoral college, too.
- rtkwe 8y agoMany states do but the time they're required to provide is pretty short and not long enough in some areas (2-4 hours mostly 2-3) and even where there are provisions like that employers can refuse to provide the time. > Though many states allow employees to have up to three hours off during the time the polls are open (the number of hours varies by state), nearly all of the states allow employers to refuse time off to vote. https://aflcio.org/2016/11/5/know-your-rights-state-laws-employee-time-vote https://aflcio.org/2016/11/5/know-your-rights-state-laws-emp...
- cmsonger 8y agoStep 1: Election day is a national holiday.
- punchclockhero 8y agoAnother option that solves the problem, at least for 9-to-5-ers is holding elections on Sundays. It's done that way in my country and it seems to be convenient enough. There's still a national holiday, but only for schoolchildren as the polling stations are in schools and it takes time to remove the election materials.
- jessaustin 8y agoPerhaps it would be easier to just suppress the vote of older voters? It says right here that they're more susceptible to suggestion.