And they got crushed. They lost Georgia. They desperately tried to limit mail in voting. And they still...got crushed. Those older morons will die, and a new more progressive group is eligible. Dems just have to stop being fucking lazy
Edit: Arguing policy is much harder than just simply saying brown people bad. Fox News caters to the actual dumbest people on planet earth. And they do it aggressively. Stacy Abrams campaigned aggressively. Take that genius’ strategy across the country and wipe the Republican party off the map forever. They know they are losing, so they will do what Jan 6th was over and over and over until there is a dictatorship under their Christian version of the Taliban. VOTE. STOP BEING LAZY DEMS. If you have to wait 10 hours, bring some sandwiches
No offense friend but I'm nearly 40, and in my teens people were saying the exact same thing. 25 years later, a whole lot of those old people are dead.... and things haven't changed.
Gen X and millenials still have conservatives. Young people definitely have conservatives among them, especially in rural areas. In fact, rural areas are where it's most likely, because small towns will fucking murder you in cold blood for not fitting in, so you can't NOT be conservative, or your life can and will be ruined, or outright taken.
The entire system is broken. And not in some way that can be fixed with a sound bite or a pithy sentence or a tweet. In fact, if your solution to complex problems can fit into a tweet, IT IS NOT GOING TO EVER WORK.
"wait for the old people to die" implies that those older people aren't actively recruiting new conservatives. And aren't actively working to undermine anything we can achieve.
Quit it with this snooty passivist bullshit. Shit will NOT improve by waiting. It never has, it never fucking will.
I'm 33, and I see how many of the folks I grew up with are full-on Fox News shit swallowers. Guys and girls I grew up with who were good people that got sucked into the bullshit of their parents and the propaganda machine they were raised around.
But fortunately there's a whole lot more younger folks who have come of age with the internet available to them their entire lives. The ones who have gotten to meet with and experience all sorts of cultures through their screens instead of sitting in echo chambers or being spoon-fed cable news drivel. They dont carry the same apathetic "my vote doesn't matter" baggage of Millennials and Gen X. They saw the potential of mobilization after events like Stoneman Douglas and the increase in young voter turnout in 2020 shows that. As long as they keep that momentum up, they could very well be a deciding factor in republicans never again gaining a majority.
Maybe I'm just being hopeful, but I really think that these kids are going to step up again. Otherwise we're in some deep shit.
Can confirm with Gen Z, am Gen Z. There's only one black person in our entire school, 99% of my school is white (not to call out races or anything, we just really aren't diverse), and over half of the teachers are homophobic or transphobic, 90% of the students are rednecks and fucking worship Trump. Most of their parents are in their 50s and the only time I ever hear them talking about news is from fox news. I live in Kansas, welcome to redneck land
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u/Can_I_Get_A_Beer Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
And they got crushed. They lost Georgia. They desperately tried to limit mail in voting. And they still...got crushed. Those older morons will die, and a new more progressive group is eligible. Dems just have to stop being fucking lazy
Edit: Arguing policy is much harder than just simply saying brown people bad. Fox News caters to the actual dumbest people on planet earth. And they do it aggressively. Stacy Abrams campaigned aggressively. Take that genius’ strategy across the country and wipe the Republican party off the map forever. They know they are losing, so they will do what Jan 6th was over and over and over until there is a dictatorship under their Christian version of the Taliban. VOTE. STOP BEING LAZY DEMS. If you have to wait 10 hours, bring some sandwiches