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If you are 30 or under, then the numbers do not support the claim that you voted and voted.

NAYRT and I'll be 39 in a couple weeks, but I think people arguing passionately about politics in a thread about a dramatic life-ruining Supreme Court ruling are not likely to sit elections out.

I was too young to do anything but grind my teeth and foam at the mouth in the 2000 election that put Bush II in power, and voting against him and losing in 2004 fucking sucked. I missed the 2002 midterms by dint of being actively suicidal after dropping out of college, but I've never missed an election since. And I know plenty of people my age who have voted in every election since they were able to, and all my 20 something coworkers at my current job turn in their ballots every election, too.

But then, universal mail voting and ballot drop off for two weeks prior to the election make it super easy, even if you're working three jobs and studying for finals. I can see how places that outlaw mail voting and have one poling place for a city of a million+ people with lines stretching for blocks and no shade or places to sit is a different animal.

I'm certain the OP votes, and I'm sure everyone in our respective circles do. But the numbers across our age demographic are still paltry af. It's so frustrating because as the largest existing cohort, millennials should be getting to the point now where we can make government policies work in our favor the way boomers did when they reached their prime working years, but we're not. Year after year, endless articles talk about how the shift will happen any time now, how the political landscape will change, but here we are still living in the world they created.

Do you believe that the Democratic Party is doing everything they possibly can do, as well as it can be done?

No, I believe in voting to keep Republicans out of power. It's bullshit but it's the only thing that matters in this two-party system, and conservative voters get it. I've known since a 5th social studies project that they were coming for abortion rights.

I agree that everyone should vote, I just don't think that yelling at everyone to vote is sufficient or the end of the conversation.

NAYRT--no; I feel like the "lacks passion" problem so many apathetic reluctant or would-be Democratic voters cite really does stop them from jumping through the flaming hoop voting obstacle course that Republicans have been constructing for decades.

But as someone who is spoiled for choice on Democratic candidates (I live in coastal California) I don't always vote for the furthest left candidates who are usually tied for "most passionate" with the far right nutjobs, because passion is all they have.

Often it's not just that they don't have plans, it's that they're anti plan and anti politics because planning and politics are something that politicians (derogatory) do. Like, dude? You are trying to be elected to a job where that is the job.

Republicans can afford to run on passion and charisma because the entire party runs on proving that government is broken and only exists to "steal" tax money, so they can suck at planning and legislating and score "wins" by "owning the libs lol." I don't vote for leftist candidates who say the same shit about how worthless the government is, I vote for leftist candidates who have a plan to shape government priorities.

I work at a library. Under the previous Republican mayor and split city council, the plan was to fire 1/3 of library staff and close 2/3 of library branches.

Our current mayor is a Democrat and all but one city council members are Democrats. Not all of them are leftists, but some are. We kept all our staff, got raises for the first time in a decade(!) and are eliminating hourly positions and replacing them with full and half time benefitted ones, and will be expanding our hours further as more staff are hired. We have more community programs and more books to share with patrons now.

If Democratic voters want everything on their checklists instead of watching their representatives claw and struggle to get, say, a watered down American Rescue Act passed and then not be able to do much else, they need enough Democrats and leftist legislators to drown out the Manchins and Sinemas in their ranks and not need to go begging Republican votes to get shit done. That's how they can pass legislation to get people fired up.

I hope I live long enough for the federal government to reflect my mayor and city council basically going "lol we don't need you" at their single sad token Republican.

THIS. The candidates I've voted for in my local elections aren't all super liberal, but you know what? They've gotten shit done and that's what matters most.

Vote blue no matter who because the right WILL vote red no matter who. They don't CARE about likability or anything like that. They don't care about passions or whatever. They just care about being on the same side.

I vote blue no matter who. I find this attitude condescending and actively harmful. There are problems with the Democratic Party, we do need to address those problems, and we do need to convince voters to vote for Democrats.

You sound privileged, white and wealthy enough to leave your state. We're in fucking survival mode right now. We don't get the luxury of much choice.

We're in survival mode and that's why we can't let the Democratic Party keep sitting on their asses collecting fundraising donations and doing nothing.

This strategy will work up to a certain point. Always be sure to research your candidates, regardless of party. Know their history. Know enough to recognize a DINO (Democrat in name only), an obvious Republican jumping parties, a candidate who'd rather rant about Jesus instead of actually follow his teachings, or basically anyone who doesn't seem to care about the needs of all the people.

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