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I don't agree with you being downvoted here...take another issue that is disproportionately effecting the young: Student Loans. Every year more than 1M people

I don't agree with you being downvoted here...take another issue that is disproportionately effecting the young: Student Loans. Every year more than 1M people default on their student loans, ruining their credit and essentially their lives. Currently this is a voting block of 8M people and it will continue to grow by 1M every year. There is one candidate who has promised to forgive all student loans, and yet the person won't garner anywhere close to 8M votes. There is a coordinated effort to indebt young people with loans they will spend the next 40-50 years of their life paying. Their degrees won't even pay for themselves as evidence by the fact these young people who historically could at least move out and begin their lives are no longer able to afford to do so...and when these issues are mentioned people are silenced (or downvoted into the grey so their comments can't be read). There is more to this than young people don't vote, especially where they have every reason.

slimed 7y ago
I don't think you'll find much sympathy for those who take out college loans beyond what their future occupation will realistically support in a forum like this.
raisedbyninjas 7y ago
Only 18% of the population live in swing states though. Assuming an even distribution, that's < 1.5 million votes.
- throwaway_law 7y ago
  I think that is a fair point (although certainly we wouldn't find even distribution of these people across the States, but I can't provide the statistical breakdown). However, 8 Million is the potential voting block of people who have already defaulted on their student loans...there are a total of 44.7 Million people with student loans who all would be interested and benefit from loan forgiveness/abatement. To put those numbers in perspective it it just exceeds the number of elderly voters on Medicare (44 Million).
- huherto 7y ago
  There are still many issues to vote on. Also, if you live on a red state vote for a moderate. Try to influence the primaries.

slimed 7y ago

I don't think you'll find much sympathy for those who take out college loans beyond what their future occupation will realistically support in a forum like this.

raisedbyninjas 7y ago

Only 18% of the population live in swing states though. Assuming an even distribution, that's < 1.5 million votes.

throwaway_law 7y ago
I think that is a fair point (although certainly we wouldn't find even distribution of these people across the States, but I can't provide the statistical breakdown). However, 8 Million is the potential voting block of people who have already defaulted on their student loans...there are a total of 44.7 Million people with student loans who all would be interested and benefit from loan forgiveness/abatement. To put those numbers in perspective it it just exceeds the number of elderly voters on Medicare (44 Million).
huherto 7y ago
There are still many issues to vote on. Also, if you live on a red state vote for a moderate. Try to influence the primaries.