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It’s not like most 16yos will vote. Getting them engaged is a good thing. Who among them will? I’d guess the most engaged and the most based (for lack of a be
by jkestner 1y ago
It’s not like most 16yos will vote. Getting them engaged is a good thing.
Who among them will? I’d guess the most engaged and the most based (for lack of a better word), so probably not much difference from the current electorate, except that youth skews left.
- CamperBob2 1y agoexcept that youth skews left. That's one of those time-honored political truisms that turns out to be based on... not much of anything. Trump made massive inroads with younger voters this time around. It's all about outreach (and, in the US, Christian youth evangelism.) It's the stated goal of the American right(1) to dismantle public education precisely for that purpose. 1: https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Project-2025-Education.pdf https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Project-2...
- jkestner 1y agoGood point, thank you. Maybe youth skews towards breaking the wheel. In any case, younger voters are not going to destroy democracy. They’re just another group to be swayed to Pokémon Go to the polls.