• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Aren’t the nones already something like 1/3 of the population? Talk about an underserved group…we keep getting these xtianist loons that wear their Belief Systems (BS) right out there on their sleeve, as if their little book club has anything to do with proper governance in secular nation.

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    5 months ago

    A poll released last month by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School found that young Americans appear less likely to vote in 2024 than they did in 2020, a record-setting year for young-voter turnout.

    This may become the determining factor in this year’s election. If Democrats actually show up to vote, they’ll win almost every time, at least of the national level. Unfortunately, they don’t show up as consistently as conservatives.

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      5 months ago

      Didn’t get everything they want politically immediately, better stay home and tacitly support fascism instead.

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      5 months ago

      Before the 2020 election, 57% of Americans ages 18 to 29 said they were planning to vote. The number is now 49%, a figure many analysts say reflects disinterest in the likelihood of a Biden-Trump rematch.

      It seems like this is going to be a continuing battle for all time. Republican gets elected, Republican fucks shit up big time, young people take notice and vote in a Democrat, Democrat starts unfucking shit up, young people become apathetic, rinse and repeat.

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      5 months ago

      young people seem less likely to feel obligated or cowed into voting for someone just because he has a suit on and speaks properly and because the ads say you have to. i don’t think i’ve seen anyone younger than 40 happier with his support of genocide

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    Why would anyone with half a brain continue to support this awful system?

    Know what makes democrats? Getting out of your insulated social bubble and seeing that everyone is the same and just trying to get by.

    Go travel see the world!

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    5 months ago

    but there are still plenty of morons, who were raised by morons, and so on, all of whom are exactly the sort of person to have coNneCtiOns to the point where they’ll get to impose their will anyway