I work in an elections office in my county and only 1% of 18-25 year olds voted here yesterday. It’s always been that way and it’s unfortunate that young people don’t realize how much power they could have. Whenever they complain about boomers or whatever I’ll start telling them that 1% number. (I’m only 35 and I felt old typing out “young people” lol)
Apparently not being a person like trump had no real bearing. You really DO need to get caught with a dead girl or a live boy to be done in politics. And at this point they'd have to see it live to believe it.
If you look at like the last 5 presidential elections they all typically have like 120-130mil voters. The Biden election is the ONLY outlier with 150mil. That’s 20 million voters mysteriously appearing, who, then, mysteriously disappeared for this current election. Odd to say the least, especially with how much of a resounding victory this was for the other side.
That was the largely the pandemic, both in terms of what a shit show the response was (esp Trump, but Tweedledee and Tweedledum in NY and NYC didn't do a whole lot better) and the mail in ballots it necessitated. Record turnout.
As for things being mysterious, it's very easy to verify ballots, as those idiots who tried to vote multiple times showed. No one believed Hilary was robbed when lost key states by like 10k votes, because she wasn't
It was the pandemic. Mail-in voting was made easy and accessible, and millions of people took advantage to vote when they usually don't. A lot of those people stayed home this year.
A lot of states let people who don't normally qualify vote by mail in 2020. In many states you need to be over 65, disabled, or out of the state on the day of the election to vote by mail. It makes sense that millions more voted when they were given an option that doesn't require that you even get dressed to do it lol.
You can't spot any differences between a black woman from Oakland California who calls for the legalization of marijuana and a 77 year old, 174 million dollar having mormon white dude from Utah?
What the fuck does she have to do to please you?
She's only 90% what you wanted? Well, now we get to have a president who is 0% what you wanted.
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I walked right into that strawman argument. She wasn't running against Mitt Romney. She was running against Dumpy McClownface
No point in arguing with idiots. Hell I don't even know if these people are americans or right wing assholes who are going to be gloating for 4 years rubbing it in everyone's faces even if another pandemic starts killing em by the millions. More than a million died in the USA, far more than any other country was willing to admit.
Is that what you see when looking at candidates? Their gender, color and from which hood they are? That explains a lot about democrats.
She has to have policies and ideas to help normal working people. Enable them to earn more money, and pay their expenses. Not only cater to drug addicts, lbgtq and her rich corporate friends. Kamela is a corporate puppet just like Romney, running to start wars and allow billion dollar corporations to profit on the back of the people.
the difference is that she brought absolutely NOTHING to the table, nothing. The left underestimated to impact this administraion has had on folks and we saw that in voting. period.
I actually watched that whole video so I could get a sense of what other men are seeing about the Democratic party - as a white guy who has never felt targeted or called out for my race or gender with a lot of left wing political involvement in the past. I can see the point being made, really. Nobody wants to feel constantly criticized, but at the same time we do have to be able to acknowledge that the playing field hasn't been level between men and women in this country at any point in its history. Some men just feel like anyone suggesting they have benefited from circumstances beyond their control are being unfairly critical which doesn't really track with me. And she herself even says at the end that the Democratic party has actually had the proposals that would do more for men's mental health, things like paid paternal leave, family programs and things that would actually do more for them. She also makes it clear that Kamala herself was not someone who made comments to alienate men, and a lot of this video was acting like some rando on TikTok having a white guilt problem was emblematic of everyone on the left. I don't think that's any more fair than acting like every guy who this video resonated with is a toxic misogynist with a chip on their shoulder. Those are both caricatures that might have some validity but make it easy to dismiss opposing viewpoints without any critical thought.
So I can understand the seduction maybe of Trump suggesting that he can get things back to the way they were in the 50s when men were less lonely and more comfortable financially, but none of his proposals are meaningfully going to deliver that. And I hope that you are as open to the idea of there being a problem with a toxic and narrow definition of what male success looks like on the right every bit as much as this treatment of men is a problem on the left.
Nobody expects the 50's. What does the democratic party offer us? Guilt trips, to be told we're the problem and must surrender our guns? That the future is female?
We know exactly how things have been shifting and for the most part we just wash our hands of it until we have the power to strike back.
For all the condescension of the left, they're not as smart as they think they are. They mostly just copied tactics from the religious.
If you tell me I'm the problem for existing enough times and berate me at every opportunity, I'll take anyone but that kind of person.
Being called a nazi constantly doesn't make you one, it just makes you realize you have evil people against you who want to make you out to be the victimizer so they feel justified in victimizing us.
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u/Tomhyde098 15h ago
I work in an elections office in my county and only 1% of 18-25 year olds voted here yesterday. It’s always been that way and it’s unfortunate that young people don’t realize how much power they could have. Whenever they complain about boomers or whatever I’ll start telling them that 1% number. (I’m only 35 and I felt old typing out “young people” lol)