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Older voters are more likely to have voted for Trump, but also young men. And younger voters simply don’t vote as much… I find the generational bait pretty ha

• Der_Einzige 1y ago
  Specifically young brown and black men (huge swing when young white men had hardly any swing) Old White women were the only voters who went more for Harris than Biden.
  • ryoshoe 1y ago
    As a whole brown and black men were still more likely to have voted for Harris than Trump, even though a larger share of them went for Trump this time around
    • Der_Einzige 1y ago
      Nope - you are wrong, at least for Hispanic men! Hispanic Men went 50% Trump, 48% harris - https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patte... (page 3, first chart) https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/pp-2025-6-26_validated-voters_2-01/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patte... Sorry liberals, but it's a bad idea to assume that a predominantly catholic conservative minority will ever be reliable voters for you. Democrats will need to among other things stop being pro choice to ever recover the latino vote.
• hodgehog11 1y ago
  > And younger voters simply don’t vote as much… I think this is one of the biggest problems with the US. It seems like it is by design and is very sad. Other nations with mandatory voting seem to have done much better fighting against both extremism and the otherwise overwhelming influence of older voters. Voter suppression isn't an option in these places.
  • duxup 1y ago
    Agreed, although I’d also like to see ranked choice voting and thus more options. Just two options from two insular parties sucks.
    • Freedom2 1y ago
      I don't trust Americans to understand how ranked choice voting actually works, given the education level of most voters here. Not to mention there's probably some way they'll bastardize it and transform it into something even worse.
      • duxup 1y ago
        It has worked out in local elections in some places. I think rank your favorites is pretty intuitive.
    • linhns 1y ago
      Be careful what you wish for, ranked choice often gives you the “not bad” result at expense of a better but relatively unknown one. Unless an option really stands out, ranked choice can really backfire.
      • duxup 1y ago
        I’ll take not bad vs all or nothing.
    • FireBeyond 1y ago
      RCV will struggle to gain adoption because it hurts the Republican Party. Indeed, 11 Republican-controlled states have legislation that bans any use of RCV in elections at any level within those states.
• nine_zeros 1y ago
  > Older voters are more likely to have voted for Trump, but also young men. Ah, but boomers are not just old voters. Boomers are also owners and sponsors of faux news that has brainwashed the young men into thinking that maga cares about them - only to get their votes and then revert to serving the billionaire overlords. The generational issue here is that the old people are actively brainwashing and sabotaging the youth - even outside voting.
  • duxup 1y ago
    Few people own media outlets. I’m old, nobody who owns a media outlet listens to me because of my demographic status. And still if young people cared enough they could have voted and made a difference, but they did not.
    • nine_zeros 1y ago
      > And still if young people cared enough they could have voted and made a difference, but they did not. Young people do care but they expect older people to care about the next generation - in a functional society that is. If the young were taught right from childhood that the elders are sabotaging them, they will show up - and it will be bad for the boomers lying to them constantly.
      • duxup 1y ago
        "I'm not voting because <strange expectations about other people doing it for me>." sounds absolutely absurd. We're on our second Trump administration now, but someone assumed someone else would vote the way they wanted for them? I don't buy it.
        • nine_zeros 1y ago
          > "I'm not voting because <strange expectations about other people doing it for me>." sounds absolutely absurd. It is a mistake on the younger generation's part to expect sanity from elders - this is the reality that they are not taught as kids. That's why we have geriatric pedophiles ruling the country. And this will not change because the geriatric pedophiles are trying their hardest to destroy education in large swathes of the country. > We're on our second Trump administration now, but someone assumed someone else would vote the way they wanted for them? Yes, because that someone was likely a kid 8 years ago - literally could have been 10 year olds. They don't have the knowledge, education, experience that a 70 year old boomer has. And the 70 year olds are making sure the misinformation continues so that the newly minted 18 year old votes against their own interests. This is literally the southern republican playbook. You don't need to buy my argument. You only need to accept that boomers have sabotaged for far longer before the 18 year old even had a chance to cast the first vote.