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Cattledog

(5,915 posts) Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:23 AM Oct 2018

Millennials and the vote. Don't count on them.

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Millennials and the vote. Don't count on them. (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2018 OP

They need to get off their asses and VOTE. LBM20 Oct 2018 #1

Maybe Doreen Oct 2018 #2

no, young people of all generations have voted in very low numbers JI7 Oct 2018 #3

In the Sixties, I couldn't wait to turn 21 and vote. But none of my friends cared at all. Midnight Writer Oct 2018 #4

It's up to all of us to influence young people in our families to vote. Funtatlaguy Oct 2018 #5

Unless we get ourselves involved in the process, how do we expect the younger voters to? beachbum bob Oct 2018 #6

The youngest voting block has NEVER voted regularly. bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #7

This is very depressing. cwydro Oct 2018 #8

I have not yet met a millenial interested in voting AlexSFCA Oct 2018 #9

I watch their total preoccupation with cell phone screens and feel like they are so detached Trust Buster Oct 2018 #10

My 19 yr old granddaughter is very excited to vote for the very first time. secondwind Oct 2018 #11

LBM20

(1,580 posts)

1. They need to get off their asses and VOTE.

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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:34 AM

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Doreen

(11,686 posts)

2. Maybe

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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:51 AM

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This is a clue of the dumbing down of people in the U.S. They were taught somewhere that voting does not matter.

JI7

(89,250 posts)

3. no, young people of all generations have voted in very low numbers

Reply to Doreen (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:00 AM

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it's nothing new. it would take something like a military draft or a law making voting mandatory to get a real change.

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)

4. In the Sixties, I couldn't wait to turn 21 and vote. But none of my friends cared at all.

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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:06 AM

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And this was when we were all in danger of a taxpayer funded trip to Vietnam.

Funtatlaguy

(10,877 posts)

5. It's up to all of us to influence young people in our families to vote.

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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:43 AM

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beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

6. Unless we get ourselves involved in the process, how do we expect the younger voters to?

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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:06 AM

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bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)

7. The youngest voting block has NEVER voted regularly.

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Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:54 AM

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It's not a current generation thing, it's always been this way.

Most of it is because they're fairly detached from the real world at that time. They don't pay bills, they don't go grocery shopping, they don't have their own health insurance, they don't have to pay premiums, etc. It's not until they're in their 20s and start taking on more responsibility that they realize how much everything impacts them. I was the same way.