According
to the NYT interviews Tuesday night “with more than two dozen Michigan college students across the state indicated a deeper well of
dissatisfaction”, i.e. than the Gaza destruction - which btw is largely on the autocratic imp
Netanyahu.
What pray tell is this deeper well of dissatisfaction? We are informed:
“Not
just with the incumbent president, but with the prospect of once again having
to choose between two candidates — Mr. Biden and former President Donald J.
Trump — decades older than them.”
Awwww…..too
bad. Want a nappy? How about a sippy cup? Maybe send you back to your infant days? Back to mommy to rock you to sleep with a lullaby?
Look, kiddies, this is the way it is. You want
to be treated like grown ups, like adults, then act the part. That means
dealing with the existing political- electoral situation within its context and
not trying to escape using fantasy aspirations or delusional thinking to excuse opting out: voting 'uncommitted' or not at all. This is a binary election, between one decent candidate
(whom the media has piled onto) and a traitor loser wannabe dictator you do not
want in power. No you don’t.
Not if
you want to have any chance of having a viable future, finally getting your
student loans paid off, having autonomy over your own reproductive rights, and
being able to afford (finally) a decent home. You think Trump will give you
that? No he will not! He is planning to impose a 10 percent “universal tariff”
on all nations’ goods if he gets in which means you will not be able to afford
bupkis.
According
to Adam Lacasse, a co-chairman of the College Democrats at the University of
Michigan, quoted by the Times:
“It’s
been a tense atmosphere on campus. A lot of people, if they’re not upset with
what’s going on, with the administration’s handling of that conflict, they’re
turned off from politics because they don’t want to get engaged in it.”
One big reason? From the Times:
"For some young people in Michigan and elsewhere, Mr. Biden’s alignment with Israel has presented a new concern. Voters under 30 overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to the conflict in a December New York Times/Siena College poll, saying that Israel hadn’t done enough to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza and that the military campaign should stop."
Ever played three-dimensional chess? That is the rough equivalent of what President Biden is playing right now to try to get the autocratic fool Benji Netanyahu under control. It's not easy because the conflict for which Gaza is now the pivot has been going on since 1948. It will not be solved overnight or even in one election year. That means maturity of mind is needed to parse all its dimensions. Want to know what I suggest for these young twitchy Turks (who some recent polls also show that 20% believe the Holocaust was a myth): Get a hold of the book 'O Jerusalem' and read it! Then you will at least have some grasp of the issues.
Another reason the collegiate set are turned off? Because they don’t have the perfect choice of candidate arranged
for them. Unlike getting all guaranteed
As on their assorted courses due to grade inflation. (Which itself traces to
student evaluations of profs – who then become terrified of giving the little
imps anything but As, Bs.) Then we go on
to learn this chestnut:
“National
polls have for months reflected a similar sentiment: Voters under 30, who
backed Mr. Biden by more than 20 points in
2020, are unenthusiastic about
a rematch between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.”
Want my reply? Tough shit! That’s life, that’s our political, electoral reality, fucking deal with it. Those are your – and our - real world choices. Are you going to be a fucking baby and cry about those choices, or will you act the only realistic and adult way possible? That means to put on your big boy pants and ensure a craven traitor degenerate, criminal rapist and wannabe dictator does not assume power again.
The kid who offered this quote to the Times is among the whining brat brigade who proudly shows he's not got any 'big boy' pants to put on:
“I acknowledge the American right to vote, but we also have the right to not do so, especially if you don’t agree with any of the candidates,”
Yes, you do you spineless, gutless little worm. You do have the right not to vote, a right that hundreds of thousands of our troops fought (and died) for you to exercise, like my dad fighting in World War Two. But just know that not voting is also a choice. In this case the choice to enable a possible return to power of Traitor Trump by giving your vote away to others who may not have the nation's interests at heart.
Meanwhile Alyssa Bradley, Michigan communications director for the Biden campaign, said Mr. Biden “has taken historic action to support young Americans,” pointing to his passage of climate policy, millions in student loan forgiveness, and his backing of abortion access.
The collegiate and under 30s need to remember that and to also bear in mind:
“Our rights, our future and our democracy are on the line this election."
To me that ought to be ample to get any young sprat motivated and energized enough to go out there to help canvass votes for Joe Biden.
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And:
Back on March 13, 2020 — almost exactly four years ago — I wrote an article that was published at alternet.org laying out how Republicans were then, ten months before January 6th, planning to partially repeat the debacle of the election of 1876 by having Vice President Pence refuse to certify swing state votes and thus throw the election to the House to keep Trump in office, no matter how the election went.
When I published the article ten months before January 6th, I received concerned and even alarmed communications from several Democratic strategists and a few elected officials who basically said they didn’t think there was any way Trump would try such an audacious move and, if he did, he wouldn’t get away with it.
But I was right and that was exactly what Trump had up his sleeve. We saw it play out on January 6th. The only thing that stopped him was Pence’s unwillingness to go along with stealing an election.
Now I’m hearing a new story from those same GOP insiders (as well as other commentators) about Trump’s schemes for 2024. Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this November:
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