Colorado College students yell 'Obamanos!' on their way to the polls in November, 2008. Twelve years later too many 18-29 years old see no difference between Trump and Joe Biden -according to an FT article.
Ah well! Just when one garnered some hope - from watching the Dem convention - we'd finally be on our way to ousting Trump, there appears a disturbing Financial Times piece by Patti Waldmeir ('Youngest American Voters Dislike The Choice In Front Of Them'). To which my initial response was: 'Huh? What choice? There is no choice!' If you are given the choice of four more years of Hitler Jr. and a normal Democratic administration - what friggin' choice is there? If you have to pick between a Nazi -loving, white nationalist loving swine and a decent human - albeit 78 years of age- how hard can that be?
Evidently, pretty damned hard for the youngsters who think a national election is the same as a beauty contest or election for Prom King. According to Ms. Waldmeir:
"America's youngest voters could hold the key to whether the U.S. elects its oldest president in history in November. But, as Democrats convene online for a pandemic-plagued conventionthis week, they must face the fact that Generation Z (loosely defined as those born between 1995 and 2015) are far from thrilled with the choices before them.
That could translate into fewer of the youngest Americans bothering to vote at all. A recent Pew Research Center showed that among 18 to 29-year-olds, strong support for their presidential candidate was almost the same whether that person was the Republican president"
WTF!? Are you kidding me? "Strong support" for a petty, authoritarian racist wannabe Hitler? What? Are these kids on an opiate and MJ high? Any assclown with an I.Q. over 10 can see there ought to be ZERO support among the young for Trump! He is the one who will ensure their student debts keep piling up as his GOP enablers increase loan interest rates if he gets re-elected. Further, the ACA will be totally dismantled so they will have NO health care, period. Plus, by the end of a 2nd Trump term we can fully expect 670,000 plus dead from Covid -19, the same number killed during the Civil War. These imps really want to go there? Really? Or are they too fucking drugged and dumb to care? (Like the lowbrow college kid caught yelping "It's just a hoax!" on the NBC News last night- when challenged on his partying.)
In the real world where normal brains and intelligence operates the young voter ought to be pro -Biden by 99-1. At least! Oh, and they literally ought to be dragging their scrawny asses over "broken glass" to get Trump voted out. To use the metaphor from the 2018 midterms.
In the real world where normal brains and intelligence operates the young voter ought to be pro -Biden by 99-1. At least! Oh, and they literally ought to be dragging their scrawny asses over "broken glass" to get Trump voted out. To use the metaphor from the 2018 midterms.
Ms. Waldmeir then cites a Pew Research poll of these young sprats, which at least found a 1-point advantage of Biden over Trump: 11% to 10%. Be still my heart! I can scarcely believe it! A whopping 1 point margin.. Maybe these kids at least have a measurable I.Q. - even if not Mensa level.
She goes on (ibid.):
"And in the Pew survey, 67 per cent of 18 to 29-year-olds do indeed put themselves in the Biden camp. But a surprisingly high 30 per cent said they would either surely or possibly vote for Mr Trump, defying the conventional wisdom that most Trump voters are older."
Again, one expects the younger vote would have more sense than aged Trumpie dotards, but evidently not. I can only conclude from this that these Gen Z and Millennial voters are too low information to grasp the full dimension of the horrors Trump has already unleashed - and what he will if given a 2nd term to wreak havoc.
"Even worse news for the Democrats: a Harris Poll conducted days before the convention found that 59 per cent of 18 to 39-year-olds said they would rather live in a socialist country than a capitalist one, up 9 percentage points since last year. That could mean only tepid support for the centrist Mr Biden, who ousted Bernie Sanders, the favoured Democratic candidate among youthful socialists, in the primaries.
Speaking to Gen Zs from both ends of the political spectrum to find out how keen they are to vote, I learnt that some supporters of Mr Trump and the Democratic Socialists of America have serious doubts. Olivia Litzenberg, a 23-year-old DSA member from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Democratic convention is nominally being held, said the presumptive nominee most definitely will demotivate young voters. You're not going to see us knocking doors for Biden!"
Uh, okay. But can you at least get off your butts and bestir yourselves to vote for him? As a long time DSA member myself, I also would have loved to have seen Bernie in the running, but also know the commie card would have been played against him big time by the Trump rats. So the moderate voters we need to win in the general election would likely have themselves been demotivated to vote for a socialist. But now, with Joe Biden the nominee, there is no luxury to pick and choose. We have got to get rid of the embryonic Hitler in the White House, e.g.
Waldmeir quoting Lutzenberg again:
"She added, I am transgender, and living another four years under Trump will be directly deleterious to my standard of living. "
Standard of living? How about being forced into a gender re-education camp guarded by QAnon recruits? Think this is a joke? Look at the history of how Nazi Germany came to be when the Reich laws replaced the normal ones. And hey, anyone with even a normal I.Q. will grasp if he wins re-election Trump will be totally unfettered with no more elections to face.
Even more degraded by 'stupid' (ibid.):
"Biden is the back to normal, and the normal sucked!"
Sucked more than the concentration camps you will get with Trump? The slop you will have to eat in those camps, and the horrific treatment the QAnon guards will mete out to "make this trans kid cry"?
And of course there's the usual purist bellyaching - again disclosing radical immaturity and only rudimentary frontal lobes:
"Ms Litzenberg's partner, Pamela Westphal, 21, says the fact that Mr Sanders did not become the candidate was a wake-up call for a lot of young people, who felt that the system is failing us. She thinks Democratic turnout will be suppressed. adding, 'I haven't met too many young people who are too gung-ho for Biden."
Awwww....poor widdo, disappointed kiddies. You didn't get your guy picked in the primaries (never mind more voted for Biden, especially African Americans) and now you want to throw your sippy cups on the floor. Or have another four years of Trump's horrors and Covid deaths.
As I wrote in my June 16 post;
"Here's what few of these idealist voters (and not- yet voters) don't get: Not voting, going only the protest route instead, leaves the door open for much WORSE actors and outcomes. Exhibit A: Donald J. Trump. In the words of a recent TIME essay (June 15, p. 30):
"If the George Floyd video was the match and the coronavirus the kindling, Donald Trump provided the gasoline. Since the start of his term Trump has turned the Oval Office into an instrument of racial, ethnic and cultural division. A man who both -sided a white supremacist march, went to war with NFL players protesting police brutality, called African nations 'shithole countries' and told American congresswomen to 'go back' to where they came from, was never going to appeal to harmony now."
"If the George Floyd video was the match and the coronavirus the kindling, Donald Trump provided the gasoline. Since the start of his term Trump has turned the Oval Office into an instrument of racial, ethnic and cultural division. A man who both -sided a white supremacist march, went to war with NFL players protesting police brutality, called African nations 'shithole countries' and told American congresswomen to 'go back' to where they came from, was never going to appeal to harmony now."
Adding:
"I return to my theme that voting isn't just about getting "the ideal" candidate into office or having him or her perform to a preternatural, ideal standard of righting all wrongs, or sealing a "green New Deal". No, it also means, even more importantly - preventing the bad guys remaining in office or grabbing more power - like Trump, William Barr, Lindsey Graham etc. Hence, the uber objective is stopping these vermin from completing their destruction of this democratic experiment. In other words, voting is as much or more about limiting damage and eliminating toxic leaders as it is putting in the best."
The best thing these young, picky, undecided youth voters can do right now is get hold of Masha Gessen's 'Surviving Autocracy', which sheds light on the destabilizing demagogue, Trump. As she writes:
"No powerful political actor had set out to destroy the American political system itself - until that is, Trump won the Republican nomination. He was probably the first major party nominee to run not for president but for autocrat. "
The past three and a half years, of course, have revealed not only his penchant for authoritarianism - and worshipping autocrats like Rodrigo Duterte - but also for side -action destruction of the state and its protections via dismantling of regulations, blowing off congressional subpoenas, and attacking everything from health care to women's procreative rights and the environment. Oh, and sending storm troopers to attack protesters as in Portland. It doesn't take a Mensa level IQ to see that all the above are set to be magnified in another Trump term.
The youths covered in the FT piece notably display the same dismay at the "system" and their "powerlessness" to change it they always have. But they seem disconnected to the fact they could wield the necessary power if they just voted in the same proportions (65-70%) every year as seniors do. Waldmeir again:
"Those who feel ignored should vote to change that but they often don't. America's youngest voters could hold the balance of power in this election, but that power matters little unless they choose to wield it. "
The past three and a half years, of course, have revealed not only his penchant for authoritarianism - and worshipping autocrats like Rodrigo Duterte - but also for side -action destruction of the state and its protections via dismantling of regulations, blowing off congressional subpoenas, and attacking everything from health care to women's procreative rights and the environment. Oh, and sending storm troopers to attack protesters as in Portland. It doesn't take a Mensa level IQ to see that all the above are set to be magnified in another Trump term.
The youths covered in the FT piece notably display the same dismay at the "system" and their "powerlessness" to change it they always have. But they seem disconnected to the fact they could wield the necessary power if they just voted in the same proportions (65-70%) every year as seniors do. Waldmeir again:
"Those who feel ignored should vote to change that but they often don't. America's youngest voters could hold the balance of power in this election, but that power matters little unless they choose to wield it. "
So why don't they? Who knows? But my best bet is political immaturity, especially those who express any indecision, or lean to Trump by even a minuscule degree. Put simply, they have their heads screwed on backwards, or "up their asses" to use Janice's parlance.
Hopefully, the Young Turks will come to their senses in this pivotal election and before it's too late. The WWII Germans who grew up in the Hitler era regret they never took the chance to keep Hitler out of power when they had it. None of them took him seriously, or his pronouncements and warnings. They've had over 80 years to rue that lack of wise choice and remain one of the most hated peoples in Europe. Let us hope our people are smarter, or at least smart enough this time around to deny Trump another 4 years in which his excesses will rival Hitler's first two years.
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Excerpt:
"No one should refer to what Trump is doing as “culture war politics” or “stoking divisions” or even “crazy Trump being crazy Trump.” It’s extreme radicalization. And we need to get the language right this time."
And:
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Hopefully, the Young Turks will come to their senses in this pivotal election and before it's too late. The WWII Germans who grew up in the Hitler era regret they never took the chance to keep Hitler out of power when they had it. None of them took him seriously, or his pronouncements and warnings. They've had over 80 years to rue that lack of wise choice and remain one of the most hated peoples in Europe. Let us hope our people are smarter, or at least smart enough this time around to deny Trump another 4 years in which his excesses will rival Hitler's first two years.
See Also:
And:
Excerpt:
"No one should refer to what Trump is doing as “culture war politics” or “stoking divisions” or even “crazy Trump being crazy Trump.” It’s extreme radicalization. And we need to get the language right this time."
And:
by Michael Winship | May 13, 2020 - 5:50am | permalink
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"There must be one mission above all, one goal supreme: Vote this monster out of the White House. And along with him, tow to the nearest dump the clown car of malefactors who gave him license to cripple our republic.
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