Gotta look at it this way for gen x.. they were pushed to believe that their vote didn't matter. And so few of them got the memo that it was to keep them under heel. Millennials are somewhat the same. So many taught that we shouldn't bother.. granted we are young enough that we were able to see the truth online.. so while i hope more turn out with every election.. gen x may not be able to break that programming..
I got lucky. My mom saw how invested i was in how the world should be run.. and realized that i should vote. Through everyone else telling me i should leave it to the adults.. she said that the moment i was 18 to make sure I voted
Gen Z got all the gen x anger, and the millennial push for change.. and then got the inner strength to say fuck the world.. and just go for it. I can not be more happy watching them go
Well kudos to you for not continuing the cycle . My home life wasn't exactly functional growing up and I have real regrets surrounding behaving like my parents for a way too long . Your emotional intelligence puts you ahead of the game In a lot of respects
Some of us were screaming at them that there is no perfect candidate when Bernie lost to Hillary but they didn't believe us. Some burned us when they believed Ragent Orange and his lies and actually voted for him.
They already are.
If you are not old and white, They will do anything to stop you from voting. It's really so sad. Instead, of retooling their message to be less hateful. They just go after your rights.
You can go to war to kill and be killed and not drink at a bar. That always stuck out to me as someone from the other side of the world. Freedom alright.
“You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin”
Eve Of Destruction by Barry McGuire
(Song is still pretty accurate)
This is the way it was until the 26th Amendment was ratified on July 1, 1971.
They literally can't though. The minimum voting age is determined through the 26th amendment. It would require a new amendment to repeal that amendment, and probably another amendment to require a minimum age of 21 to vote nation wide. And passing a new amendment would literally require an act of God. So many states would have to knowingly vote against their best interests to get either of these amendments to pass. So no chance
Typical GOP strategy: Instead of listening to what the people want they instead change who votes for them. It’s so backwards and undemocratic. The GOP’s goal is to acquire power, not govern
Covid and Gen Z - I really believe if not for covid, trump would have had a much, much easier road to win 2020
But as a Gen Xer, hats-off to you ‘kids’ for showing up.
Us Gen Xers have been eating Boomer shit for decades. We learned in school they were going to fuck every last system up since none of the underlying infrastructure could handle the pop.
Definitely a hats-off.
As a Boomer, the idea that Gen Z & X are moving in to make changes gives me hope for the future. I hope/believe that this is just the tip of the Z - X iceberg in correcting course. We need a "G Wave" for every election.
ETA: X, Y & Z
But, we all know that's bullshit. The same people who don't want low wage earners to be relieved of some of their educational debt (with exorbitant interest), yet ask for and received PPP loans, then asked and received forgiveness of the loans. Don't get me started ; )
Where have you been? There have been a crap ton of articles and think pieces over the years about millennial spending habits (avo toast and starbucks, etc), debt, and our "creative alternatives" to home buying, like two unrelated people going in on a down payment together or how so many are "choosing" to live in RVs and vans. As if it has nothing to do with wages from the 90s with COS through the 2010s, entry level positions paying minimum wage but requiring a bachelors and three years expierence, etc. Not just on Fox News, but Vanity Fair, WSJ, NYT, etc.
They've kind of moved on to criticizing Gen Z for caring too much about mental health, valuing their own time, and rejecting wage slave culture or whatever.
I don't watch news because of sensualist crap like that. I read news, and not that stuff. Generational warfare hurts everyone, so I try not to engage in it. Sorry, I just saw this.
Yep, my generation produced some shit.
Yours, however, ain't much to brag about. Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Bret Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Steven Miller, Alex Jones, Ron DeSantis, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric.....
I could go on a bit, but you get the idea.
[Well, and then there is this.](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769)
I'm not trying to defend boomers, or further this generational divide bullshit stuff. The plain truth is that every generation has their assholes and their shining stars. Dark Brandon and Bernie are boomers doing a hell of a lot more to save democracy than most.
There's also an age old piece of wisdom that folks would do well to remember.
Every generation thinks the one before them are cluelessly stuck in the past and the one after them are cluelessly inexperienced. Which is superfically true, but no generation is homogenious.
Demographers report statistics based on generations. Unfortunately people lap them up like it means something significant.
I'm pretty sure that in addition to racial division being stoked by nefarious foriegn sources, attempts to pit generations against one another is also part of their methodology.
Sometimes I'm not sure if the correct response to some of the "it's all the boomers fault!" comments isn't "OK, Sergey." or "OK, Li." Or maybe "OK, Ali."
Not a bad idea. Any of my replies regarding boomers on Gen Z reddits are met with down votes in saying not all bad or protesting Kent State or Vietnam or died in Vietnam. TMTAI
I am not a boomer. Stereotyping doesn't always work. Are you a Gen Z? Why would they want to talk about when it appears that no matter what is said, it is projected back as hate such as the post you deleted but showed up in my email. Look at the divisiveness. Why keep that growing when people are not open to see other viewpoints. ALL generations have things/issues they can or need to improve.
You don't realize the liberties boomers made happen? You'd think the reality was fiction without the liberties you take for granted that boomers worked hard for.
That's not what I mean at all. I'm not talking about the boomers or the X'ers or anyone who supports Trump. I'm talking about history. A lot of civil rights reforms happened in the mid to late 20th century under boomers. I'm talking about the civil rights movement of the 1960's, disability reforms, protecting pregnant workers, ending age discrimination in employment, like forced retirement, making sure families didn't lose their jobs for caring for their families. You were probably born with all these rights because of that movement.
All generations have more and more of their population become conservative as they age. The same will happen with millennials and gen z. It's already happening with X. But we don't throw out the ones who stay true to individual liberties. That's my only point. I think it's harmful to dismiss people based on the year they were born or attribute characteristics to them that aren't true. We're all important if we're going to fight the scourge of conservative fascism that is trying really hard to take over our culture. Every single one of us including liberal 90 year olds.
Minority communities that traditionally go democrat were hit early in the pandemic when the death rate was higher. So, it is reasonable to assume that both sides lost many
While true, you also have to remember there is a higher proportion of non-voters in traditionally Democrat voting demographics as well. Or at least there was.
Covid should have been a blessing for Trump, just like 9/11 was for Bush. But, he was incapable of any reaction other than denial. If he just pretended to care about saving lives he would have won.
And as those old MAGA fucks start dying in greater and greater numbers, the population is only going to lean more to the left.
Adapt or die, GOP. I'd prefer the latter.
The major difference, the Democrats realized this before the election and spoke to the younger peoples concerns. The Republicans just hammered their tired old message to their "base"
There is no path to victory for Republicans without voter restrictions, voter suppression, gerrymandering, courting white supremacy, and trying to get their base to intimidate the other side with guns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/young-voter-turnout-election-democrats.html
The statistics, however, are more equivocal. Students make up about 8 percent of the 120,000 residents of LaCrosse County, but turnout there actually dropped some five percentage points, and some 2,000 votes, between 2018 and 2022.
Indeed, of five campus-heavy counties in battleground states randomly surveyed, only one — Centre County, Pa., home to Penn State University — recorded a turnout increase compared with 2018.
Moreover, the Circle analysis noted that while young voter turnout this election was robust, the preliminary figures indicate it actually made up a smaller share of the electorate than in 2018 — 12 percent, down from 13.
David Shor, who founded the Democratic data analysis firm Blue Rose Research, said the turnout numbers from early voting do not support the notion that turnout by young voters was especially crucial to Democrats’ success.
“The early vote data tells a pretty consistent story: Republican turnout ended up being higher than Democratic turnout,” he said. “There couldn’t have been a surge in youth turnout if the electorate was more Republican than Democratic.”
Yep and we showed up and defeated the GOP in AZ and now Nevada!
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Going forward, as more and more of the 65 plus exits stage left and more 18-29s age out of “politics got nothing to do with me” and seeing more stuff becoming relevant that affects them and their future: minimum wage, healthcare, environment, etc. And they’re getting pissed.
Made sure my kid voted from college. Next presidential election, another votes. Another democratic vote. And plenty of their friends are LGBT friendly. Republicans should probably adjust their hate.
"Gen Z literally saved democracy." Histrionics aren't just for Republicans anymore, eh?
It's awesome that the voter turnout among 18 to 29 year olds was high, and it's always a good thing when young folks pay attention to politics and vote.
But lots of other people voted for Democrats too, and Democracy isn't "saved" yet. The Republicans aren't done and SCOTUS is currently a train wreck. Sadly the McConnell-Trump antagonism left a multi-generational problem to be resolved before they turn America into Republican Jesusland.
As the future belongs to the young, I have confidence that those next generations are going to do a fine job though.
Well, except Gen X. I'm not sure about them from what I see of their political leaders. Somehow Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Bret Kavanaugh, cheered on by Tucker Carlson, just isn't quite the future that seems best for everybody.
My son is gen-z and about 20 years ago probably would have voted republican more often than not. This is his 3rd election he's voted in and he's pretty much a democrat at this point and I don't see that changing. The question becomes who is going to replace the "outgoing" (i.e., dying) voters? This isn't a today problem for the GOP, it is a long term problem and to be honest I couldn't give a shit less.
We got more important things to worry about than making people miserable for not loving how you think that they should.
And yet the corporate, center-right wing of the DNC will go "nah, we don't need to pander to them, we can just continue maintaining the status quo" and wonder why they lose the WH in 2024 to an actual fascist be it Trump or Desantis
any media group refers to anyone who not yet old enough to basically assume they have children are gen z. it’s not accurate but it’s just how they’ve been doing it
This election is a win for democracy. Republicans thought they'd get an easy win and have a red wave.
That's not the case. People voted in high numbers. Dems made history in many local elections. Michigan has gone blue!!
This election just shows how important it is to vote every time!
Also, votes are still being counted for who will control congress. It's not over until the fat lady sings.
because on average the party who holds the president looses over 30 seats in the house and looses the senate. The fact that we still have a chance to hold both is amazing. Something like this hasn't happened in decades.
The Nevada senate seat is still very much in play making the Georgia runoff the possible 51st seat. But yeah, the House is almost certainly going Republican controlled.
Yes.. now don’t screw up the student loan. I swear to god, I will vote all Republican in 2024 if they screw this up. Currently Senate Majority, House is looking close, Presidency in the clutch! Step up your ball game Democrats, don’t let us down.
Trumpian Federal judge from Texas is going to get smacked around and stayed by the Supreme Court, again. Not so sure how these Republican advocacy freedom groups are going to attract the same voters that keep crushing them at elections pulling these idiotic stunts.
People talk about giving too much money in handouts...... Other site posters mention this as a problem for them particularly if it ends up with them paying higher taxes.
Ya know, some of us old fooks are NOT Red, you know that right? Most of us ain't Blue either, we know that the two party system is really what is killing the USA. I mean who can afford that 10 million dollar ante to just get to the table. And when Bernie did show up, the two parties took great delight in shutting him down and out.
Sorry, I digress.
Delighted to see the kids voting!! Well done.
I don't know that they "saved democracy" so much as they were a welcome influx of reinforcements to bolster the barricades against encroaching fascist hordes.
Most of Gen Z grew up knowing their physical autonomy is sacrosanct. Republicans simply can’t understand that normal people are sick and tired of their rapey ways.
It’s mostly Republican policy that has us in *this mess right now* so might as well try something different knowing the ignorant will blame democrats either way.
It's more that we're already the ones paying for the awful economic, environmental, civil, and morally bankrupt choices made by the generations that came before us and it only gets worse from here on out.
We will have to pay the price for the last 7+ decades of uninhibited pollution. We're the ones who won't get things like social security because y'all let the government bankrupt it. We're the ones who don't get to have an education because it's prohibitively expensive. We're the ones who don't even get to dream of owning houses because wages are beyond stagnant and the housing market gets more and more expensive and you guys refuse to support better wages. We're the ones who can't afford the private Healthcare you guys insist we keep. We're the ones who had to grow up practicing to maybe survive the mass shootings that just keep increasing in frequency because you guys insist on keeping weapons of mass destruction legal and available to almost everyone.
We pay our taxes and just have to live with the fact that a fraction of that money will actually go into bettering our country while the rest goes to bailing out corporations, funding states that continually vote for the people who bankrupt them, the salaries of people who are actively stripping away our rights, and a ridiculously huge military budget so we can start wars that only benefit billionaires. We're sick of paying through the nose for you guys' morally bankrupt choices and want our money to actually go to our communities.
Voting for people who *might* actually listen to our needs instead of actively dragging us back to when minorities and women didn't count as human is a pretty easy choice.
It gets much much worse, yes.
You reap every benefit of the last 7 decades of pollution and you, in your short life have contributed to more than anyone else. Outsourcing it to Asia doesn't clean your filthy hands.
The education you would have gotten isn't an education anyway. You will come out with absolutely nothing useful.
I didn't insist anything. Do you think I'm a WW1 veteran?
You practice for mass shootings, the generation before practiced for nukes, before actually had danger. I'm sorry that you have to learn about mass shootings in school. You should be learning about statistics and media literacy so you wouldn't be so fucking afraid of mass shootings.
Your taxes are meaningless. If they can just turn to quantitative easing when needed why collect your taxes? Why hire 87k people to go get it?
What rights are being stripped away other than your first and second?
They aren't listening to you dude. Joe Biden was a senator LONG before I was born. He's not listening to you.
Ah. I see. You're too far gone to actually understand any of what is happening. How many nuclear bombs got dropped on the US? Tell me, how many times in the last 100 years has a nuclear bomb been detonated to destroy a city? Meanwhile last year there were 693 mass shootings. Statistics my ass. That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard.
Then again I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with you. You seem to think a single redditor contributes as much pollution as an entire natural gas corporation or a mass production facility. What simplistic and shortsighted thinking. The thing we're fed up with the most is you all and your belief that because you'll be dead when our world collapses or gets eradicated in the process of climate change, it's just not going to happen. Your right to medical privacy hasn't been overturned nor is your freedom to marry a consenting adult you love at risk, so there can't be any rights at risk other than your right to be able to have a weapon that can kill or injure tens of people in seconds and your right to say the n-word. So self centered.
There were that many mass shootings in Chicago over just the last couple of years, we just don't call it that even though it is.
Are we talking about school shootings or mass shootings? Where does this goalpost land?
You know you can move right? Maybe you'd like somewhere nice and safe with strict gun laws. Honduras perhaps?
What's the point in the end if people vote full on Republican or Republican lite Dems? Do you think the Dems will take stock of their record going forward and legislate according to their constituents or according to the oligarchs? This is far from a victory. With the loss of the house they can legitimately sit on their hands and say- "well, we don't have control of the house for two years" while the oligarchs switch their donation habits and tactics. The real power has already been shifted to the rabid Republican ideologues via packing the Supreme Court as well as the rest of the judiciary. This was done with the acquiescence of the Dems who refused to fight but agreed to every nomination. It is painful to watch people celebrate the fact that their totalitarian system stepped in to modify the worst case scenario electing barbaric, regressive politicians because even the people at the top were apprehensive about what direction they would lead the country. Stop treating elections as if they are an expression of the people. The only people that won were the oligarchs.
Yeah, people thinking rationally rather than like children with short attention spans and faulty critical thinking skills. You did not stop fascists you tool. You believed in their fake elections and that somehow your team "won". It's the game not the players fool. You voted for Coke over Pepsi. Coke still dominates the niche and isn't going anywhere.
Dear Gen-Z, Welcome to the resistance. Please continue to vote and run for offices. Thank you, Gen-X 
But maybe more than 27% of you vote next time.
Gotta look at it this way for gen x.. they were pushed to believe that their vote didn't matter. And so few of them got the memo that it was to keep them under heel. Millennials are somewhat the same. So many taught that we shouldn't bother.. granted we are young enough that we were able to see the truth online.. so while i hope more turn out with every election.. gen x may not be able to break that programming..
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I got lucky. My mom saw how invested i was in how the world should be run.. and realized that i should vote. Through everyone else telling me i should leave it to the adults.. she said that the moment i was 18 to make sure I voted
I’m an older millennial with a GenZ daughter. You better believe she was ready to cast her vote.
Gen Z got all the gen x anger, and the millennial push for change.. and then got the inner strength to say fuck the world.. and just go for it. I can not be more happy watching them go
your dad is a jerk.
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Well kudos to you for not continuing the cycle . My home life wasn't exactly functional growing up and I have real regrets surrounding behaving like my parents for a way too long . Your emotional intelligence puts you ahead of the game In a lot of respects
Some of us were screaming at them that there is no perfect candidate when Bernie lost to Hillary but they didn't believe us. Some burned us when they believed Ragent Orange and his lies and actually voted for him.
Watch Republicans try and change the voting age to 21.
Then we will cap the voting age.
Yup! Lol
They already are. If you are not old and white, They will do anything to stop you from voting. It's really so sad. Instead, of retooling their message to be less hateful. They just go after your rights.
I don't give a hoot about the message, look at what they do! That's at least as bad.
So they can go to war but not vote? Seems fare, to a republican.
You can go to war to kill and be killed and not drink at a bar. That always stuck out to me as someone from the other side of the world. Freedom alright.
“You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin” Eve Of Destruction by Barry McGuire (Song is still pretty accurate) This is the way it was until the 26th Amendment was ratified on July 1, 1971.
They literally can't though. The minimum voting age is determined through the 26th amendment. It would require a new amendment to repeal that amendment, and probably another amendment to require a minimum age of 21 to vote nation wide. And passing a new amendment would literally require an act of God. So many states would have to knowingly vote against their best interests to get either of these amendments to pass. So no chance
Some already are. [Read this story. ](https://www.thedailybeast.com/some-republicans-want-to-raise-voting-age-after-gen-zs-strong-midterm-turnout)
Typical GOP strategy: Instead of listening to what the people want they instead change who votes for them. It’s so backwards and undemocratic. The GOP’s goal is to acquire power, not govern
You're surprised?!? That's why we need to vote them ALL out of power.
When they can't do that, they'll close down the campus polling places and cut funding to public transit programs.
Well they would have to appeal an Amendment and no one has that power right now.
Already hearing rumbles.
That'd require a constitutional amendment. Very likely to happen.
Covid and Gen Z - I really believe if not for covid, trump would have had a much, much easier road to win 2020 But as a Gen Xer, hats-off to you ‘kids’ for showing up.
Us Gen Xers have been eating Boomer shit for decades. We learned in school they were going to fuck every last system up since none of the underlying infrastructure could handle the pop. Definitely a hats-off.
We had good music and good SNL
Everyone thinks the SNL from when they were teens was the best. Probably because that's the target audience.
As a Boomer, the idea that Gen Z & X are moving in to make changes gives me hope for the future. I hope/believe that this is just the tip of the Z - X iceberg in correcting course. We need a "G Wave" for every election. ETA: X, Y & Z
Do millennials (Gen Y) get to be the forgotten generation for a while now? Thank god, see you all in 10 years.
>ETA: X, Y & Z
Lol, I was kidding, partly. Millenials have just gotten a lot of heat for liking avocado on toast and not being able to afford to own homes 🤷🏽♀️
But, we all know that's bullshit. The same people who don't want low wage earners to be relieved of some of their educational debt (with exorbitant interest), yet ask for and received PPP loans, then asked and received forgiveness of the loans. Don't get me started ; )
Right?? I'm happy to focus on how much ass Gen-Z is kicking for a while instead.
Who's giving you heat for that? I've never heard anyone say that except maybe Republicans, but I ignore them.
Where have you been? There have been a crap ton of articles and think pieces over the years about millennial spending habits (avo toast and starbucks, etc), debt, and our "creative alternatives" to home buying, like two unrelated people going in on a down payment together or how so many are "choosing" to live in RVs and vans. As if it has nothing to do with wages from the 90s with COS through the 2010s, entry level positions paying minimum wage but requiring a bachelors and three years expierence, etc. Not just on Fox News, but Vanity Fair, WSJ, NYT, etc. They've kind of moved on to criticizing Gen Z for caring too much about mental health, valuing their own time, and rejecting wage slave culture or whatever.
I don't watch news because of sensualist crap like that. I read news, and not that stuff. Generational warfare hurts everyone, so I try not to engage in it. Sorry, I just saw this.
Yep, my generation produced some shit. Yours, however, ain't much to brag about. Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Bret Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Steven Miller, Alex Jones, Ron DeSantis, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric..... I could go on a bit, but you get the idea. [Well, and then there is this.](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769) I'm not trying to defend boomers, or further this generational divide bullshit stuff. The plain truth is that every generation has their assholes and their shining stars. Dark Brandon and Bernie are boomers doing a hell of a lot more to save democracy than most. There's also an age old piece of wisdom that folks would do well to remember. Every generation thinks the one before them are cluelessly stuck in the past and the one after them are cluelessly inexperienced. Which is superfically true, but no generation is homogenious. Demographers report statistics based on generations. Unfortunately people lap them up like it means something significant.
Someone gets it! Thanks. The hate for boomers (why?) only keeps the divisiveness going.
I'm pretty sure that in addition to racial division being stoked by nefarious foriegn sources, attempts to pit generations against one another is also part of their methodology. Sometimes I'm not sure if the correct response to some of the "it's all the boomers fault!" comments isn't "OK, Sergey." or "OK, Li." Or maybe "OK, Ali."
Not a bad idea. Any of my replies regarding boomers on Gen Z reddits are met with down votes in saying not all bad or protesting Kent State or Vietnam or died in Vietnam. TMTAI
Boomers have had a stranglehold on power in the House and Senate for decades and refuse to step aside. This is true on both sides of the aisle.
Vote 'em out.
Not all boomers.
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I am not a boomer. Stereotyping doesn't always work. Are you a Gen Z? Why would they want to talk about when it appears that no matter what is said, it is projected back as hate such as the post you deleted but showed up in my email. Look at the divisiveness. Why keep that growing when people are not open to see other viewpoints. ALL generations have things/issues they can or need to improve.
You don't realize the liberties boomers made happen? You'd think the reality was fiction without the liberties you take for granted that boomers worked hard for.
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That's not what I mean at all. I'm not talking about the boomers or the X'ers or anyone who supports Trump. I'm talking about history. A lot of civil rights reforms happened in the mid to late 20th century under boomers. I'm talking about the civil rights movement of the 1960's, disability reforms, protecting pregnant workers, ending age discrimination in employment, like forced retirement, making sure families didn't lose their jobs for caring for their families. You were probably born with all these rights because of that movement. All generations have more and more of their population become conservative as they age. The same will happen with millennials and gen z. It's already happening with X. But we don't throw out the ones who stay true to individual liberties. That's my only point. I think it's harmful to dismiss people based on the year they were born or attribute characteristics to them that aren't true. We're all important if we're going to fight the scourge of conservative fascism that is trying really hard to take over our culture. Every single one of us including liberal 90 year olds.
As a boomer I'm also glad you showed up.
Proud of everyone that vote
I think conservatives lost this election because most of their voters died from covid, as they were not vaccinated.
Elders with weak immune systems are mostly Republican voters. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them died due to the lies spread.
Minority communities that traditionally go democrat were hit early in the pandemic when the death rate was higher. So, it is reasonable to assume that both sides lost many
While true, you also have to remember there is a higher proportion of non-voters in traditionally Democrat voting demographics as well. Or at least there was.
I agree with my fellow Gen-Xer. And thank you Gen-Z!
Trump would not have won popular vote but by electoral, like the last time.
Covid should have been a blessing for Trump, just like 9/11 was for Bush. But, he was incapable of any reaction other than denial. If he just pretended to care about saving lives he would have won.
If it wasn't for Covid Trump definitely would have won. However I should clarify if it was for Trumps *handling of* covid he would have won.
I don't buy it, the polls pre covid and the final election results are basically identical.
And as those old MAGA fucks start dying in greater and greater numbers, the population is only going to lean more to the left. Adapt or die, GOP. I'd prefer the latter.
I think conservatives lost this election because most of their voters died from covid, as they were not vaccinated.
Oh *that's* why they want to let unqualified people teach in schools. *shocked Pikachu face*
The major difference, the Democrats realized this before the election and spoke to the younger peoples concerns. The Republicans just hammered their tired old message to their "base"
And attacked young people as being too soft, too gay and too stupid.
Yep, too bad! Laughs on them. Young voters will be voters for many years, old voters a few years. The future looks bright!
Yup!!!
There is no path to victory for Republicans without voter restrictions, voter suppression, gerrymandering, courting white supremacy, and trying to get their base to intimidate the other side with guns.
Yup!
I’m one of the cancelled out voters, and I couldn’t be happier!
I wasn't cancelled because I voted the same way.
Oh, yeah, I didn’t think about that. You are correct, I also voted for the future, not for corporate profits.
And so did everyone I know my age. Thank God for my liberal boomer bubble.
Tired af Millenial vanguard here trying to break into my career to help everyone behind me. Thank you so so much Gen Z.
I'm a boomer and I want you guys to keep showing up and voting blue. It's up to you now. Fix this shitstorm that we as a generation caused.
There is a saying future stays/proceeds on young peoples back. They have showed what is important to them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/young-voter-turnout-election-democrats.html The statistics, however, are more equivocal. Students make up about 8 percent of the 120,000 residents of LaCrosse County, but turnout there actually dropped some five percentage points, and some 2,000 votes, between 2018 and 2022. Indeed, of five campus-heavy counties in battleground states randomly surveyed, only one — Centre County, Pa., home to Penn State University — recorded a turnout increase compared with 2018. Moreover, the Circle analysis noted that while young voter turnout this election was robust, the preliminary figures indicate it actually made up a smaller share of the electorate than in 2018 — 12 percent, down from 13. David Shor, who founded the Democratic data analysis firm Blue Rose Research, said the turnout numbers from early voting do not support the notion that turnout by young voters was especially crucial to Democrats’ success. “The early vote data tells a pretty consistent story: Republican turnout ended up being higher than Democratic turnout,” he said. “There couldn’t have been a surge in youth turnout if the electorate was more Republican than Democratic.”
And as a middle-aged man, I thank them for it, and my father would be proud if he was still around.
My Gen x ass is grateful
Millenials 4 Gen Z. Medicare 4 All.
You mean to tell me that 18-29 year olds aren’t longing for things to stay the way they were 40-50 years ago? Shocking! /s
Yep and we showed up and defeated the GOP in AZ and now Nevada! https://preview.redd.it/fqze2jhm9oz91.jpeg?width=1128&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=a210cc4061d93f404e0606a5804aa58884f0bf1f
👏👏👏👏👏
Going forward, as more and more of the 65 plus exits stage left and more 18-29s age out of “politics got nothing to do with me” and seeing more stuff becoming relevant that affects them and their future: minimum wage, healthcare, environment, etc. And they’re getting pissed.
Yes!!!
Made sure my kid voted from college. Next presidential election, another votes. Another democratic vote. And plenty of their friends are LGBT friendly. Republicans should probably adjust their hate.
Democrats need to play the long game like the GOP, except with Gen Z rather than Southern whites.
Youth is the engine of the world.
Warms my heart to see that. And likely more will vote in 2024.
I hope more keeps voting. Gen Z, Gen X, and millennials all want the same thing. The dems speak to that and better take action on promises.
The ultimate 'OK Boomer'
Then the democrats better make sure they're worthy of Gen Z votes...
Exactly!
How is it record breaking when 2018 saw higher turnout from the same demographic?
Democrats win the senate whoo hoo!
Young people usually have their finger on the pulse and know what's going on, we should have more faith in them.
Absolutely!
"Gen Z literally saved democracy." Histrionics aren't just for Republicans anymore, eh? It's awesome that the voter turnout among 18 to 29 year olds was high, and it's always a good thing when young folks pay attention to politics and vote. But lots of other people voted for Democrats too, and Democracy isn't "saved" yet. The Republicans aren't done and SCOTUS is currently a train wreck. Sadly the McConnell-Trump antagonism left a multi-generational problem to be resolved before they turn America into Republican Jesusland. As the future belongs to the young, I have confidence that those next generations are going to do a fine job though. Well, except Gen X. I'm not sure about them from what I see of their political leaders. Somehow Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Bret Kavanaugh, cheered on by Tucker Carlson, just isn't quite the future that seems best for everybody.
Yea. The work continues.
My son is gen-z and about 20 years ago probably would have voted republican more often than not. This is his 3rd election he's voted in and he's pretty much a democrat at this point and I don't see that changing. The question becomes who is going to replace the "outgoing" (i.e., dying) voters? This isn't a today problem for the GOP, it is a long term problem and to be honest I couldn't give a shit less. We got more important things to worry about than making people miserable for not loving how you think that they should.
Good! Cater to those coming in not those going out
Finally, we are starting to see an end to boomer domination across the west. We can start cleaning up their mess now and paying off their debts….
And yet the corporate, center-right wing of the DNC will go "nah, we don't need to pander to them, we can just continue maintaining the status quo" and wonder why they lose the WH in 2024 to an actual fascist be it Trump or Desantis
Is Gen Z 29? I’m fairly sure I’m a millennial at 29.
You are on the very very tail end, I’m 33 and I’m a young Millennial lol
gen z is only 1997-2012 is what i’ve seen. i can’t be sure though
any media group refers to anyone who not yet old enough to basically assume they have children are gen z. it’s not accurate but it’s just how they’ve been doing it
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This election is a win for democracy. Republicans thought they'd get an easy win and have a red wave. That's not the case. People voted in high numbers. Dems made history in many local elections. Michigan has gone blue!! This election just shows how important it is to vote every time! Also, votes are still being counted for who will control congress. It's not over until the fat lady sings.
because on average the party who holds the president looses over 30 seats in the house and looses the senate. The fact that we still have a chance to hold both is amazing. Something like this hasn't happened in decades.
The Nevada senate seat is still very much in play making the Georgia runoff the possible 51st seat. But yeah, the House is almost certainly going Republican controlled.
Yes.. now don’t screw up the student loan. I swear to god, I will vote all Republican in 2024 if they screw this up. Currently Senate Majority, House is looking close, Presidency in the clutch! Step up your ball game Democrats, don’t let us down.
If it ends up in the courts tho don't blame current congress for a previous administration's appointed judges.
Trumpian Federal judge from Texas is going to get smacked around and stayed by the Supreme Court, again. Not so sure how these Republican advocacy freedom groups are going to attract the same voters that keep crushing them at elections pulling these idiotic stunts.
Exactly! They better put abortion into law as well.
People talk about giving too much money in handouts...... Other site posters mention this as a problem for them particularly if it ends up with them paying higher taxes.
80% of our taxes goes to Military weapons. So much blah blah budget and how many billions have gone to Ukraine aid.
Sorry, don’t believe it, every vote over 65?
Fuck yea.
Great job, kids!
And the antivaccine maga boomers are dying at a faster rate. The future is brighter now.
Ya know, some of us old fooks are NOT Red, you know that right? Most of us ain't Blue either, we know that the two party system is really what is killing the USA. I mean who can afford that 10 million dollar ante to just get to the table. And when Bernie did show up, the two parties took great delight in shutting him down and out. Sorry, I digress. Delighted to see the kids voting!! Well done.
I don't know that they "saved democracy" so much as they were a welcome influx of reinforcements to bolster the barricades against encroaching fascist hordes.
Thanks You Generation Z! Ironically they helped save social security from Republican designs that could have fundamentally changed the program.
I am 65 and a Democrat. I am so glad to help Gen Z do their part.
On Twitter, this guy took some heat for stereotyping generations and underestimating women.
If we want them to keep showing up we need someone other than Biden in 2024. I wish Michelle Obama would run.
Most of Gen Z grew up knowing their physical autonomy is sacrosanct. Republicans simply can’t understand that normal people are sick and tired of their rapey ways.
Well, they are the ones who have to pay for this mess down the road. Choosing it might make that pill easier to swallow.
It’s mostly Republican policy that has us in *this mess right now* so might as well try something different knowing the ignorant will blame democrats either way.
He’s a tucker carlson fan, don’t even entertain his dumb ass.
I'm a bowtie afficionado.
So you’re a douche? Noted..but didn’t really need the confirmation from you.
Which policies specifically?
It's more that we're already the ones paying for the awful economic, environmental, civil, and morally bankrupt choices made by the generations that came before us and it only gets worse from here on out. We will have to pay the price for the last 7+ decades of uninhibited pollution. We're the ones who won't get things like social security because y'all let the government bankrupt it. We're the ones who don't get to have an education because it's prohibitively expensive. We're the ones who don't even get to dream of owning houses because wages are beyond stagnant and the housing market gets more and more expensive and you guys refuse to support better wages. We're the ones who can't afford the private Healthcare you guys insist we keep. We're the ones who had to grow up practicing to maybe survive the mass shootings that just keep increasing in frequency because you guys insist on keeping weapons of mass destruction legal and available to almost everyone. We pay our taxes and just have to live with the fact that a fraction of that money will actually go into bettering our country while the rest goes to bailing out corporations, funding states that continually vote for the people who bankrupt them, the salaries of people who are actively stripping away our rights, and a ridiculously huge military budget so we can start wars that only benefit billionaires. We're sick of paying through the nose for you guys' morally bankrupt choices and want our money to actually go to our communities. Voting for people who *might* actually listen to our needs instead of actively dragging us back to when minorities and women didn't count as human is a pretty easy choice.
It gets much much worse, yes. You reap every benefit of the last 7 decades of pollution and you, in your short life have contributed to more than anyone else. Outsourcing it to Asia doesn't clean your filthy hands. The education you would have gotten isn't an education anyway. You will come out with absolutely nothing useful. I didn't insist anything. Do you think I'm a WW1 veteran? You practice for mass shootings, the generation before practiced for nukes, before actually had danger. I'm sorry that you have to learn about mass shootings in school. You should be learning about statistics and media literacy so you wouldn't be so fucking afraid of mass shootings. Your taxes are meaningless. If they can just turn to quantitative easing when needed why collect your taxes? Why hire 87k people to go get it? What rights are being stripped away other than your first and second? They aren't listening to you dude. Joe Biden was a senator LONG before I was born. He's not listening to you.
Ah. I see. You're too far gone to actually understand any of what is happening. How many nuclear bombs got dropped on the US? Tell me, how many times in the last 100 years has a nuclear bomb been detonated to destroy a city? Meanwhile last year there were 693 mass shootings. Statistics my ass. That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard. Then again I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with you. You seem to think a single redditor contributes as much pollution as an entire natural gas corporation or a mass production facility. What simplistic and shortsighted thinking. The thing we're fed up with the most is you all and your belief that because you'll be dead when our world collapses or gets eradicated in the process of climate change, it's just not going to happen. Your right to medical privacy hasn't been overturned nor is your freedom to marry a consenting adult you love at risk, so there can't be any rights at risk other than your right to be able to have a weapon that can kill or injure tens of people in seconds and your right to say the n-word. So self centered.
There were that many mass shootings in Chicago over just the last couple of years, we just don't call it that even though it is. Are we talking about school shootings or mass shootings? Where does this goalpost land? You know you can move right? Maybe you'd like somewhere nice and safe with strict gun laws. Honduras perhaps?
Being that you're taking a red pill, nobody gives a shit.
Nobody here. I bet I'm older than you. Looking forward to draining your tax dollars in my old age.
You already do, loser.
age =\= knowledge. older people have had more opportunities to gain knowledge, doesn’t mean they all took those opportunities
You sure didn't.
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What's the point in the end if people vote full on Republican or Republican lite Dems? Do you think the Dems will take stock of their record going forward and legislate according to their constituents or according to the oligarchs? This is far from a victory. With the loss of the house they can legitimately sit on their hands and say- "well, we don't have control of the house for two years" while the oligarchs switch their donation habits and tactics. The real power has already been shifted to the rabid Republican ideologues via packing the Supreme Court as well as the rest of the judiciary. This was done with the acquiescence of the Dems who refused to fight but agreed to every nomination. It is painful to watch people celebrate the fact that their totalitarian system stepped in to modify the worst case scenario electing barbaric, regressive politicians because even the people at the top were apprehensive about what direction they would lead the country. Stop treating elections as if they are an expression of the people. The only people that won were the oligarchs.
We have a long way to go but we’re further from an end to democracy than we were before, and that’s a win for everyone.
omfg people still trying this shit So tired. Let's fend off the fascists then you can go back to being too cool for shit
Yeah, people thinking rationally rather than like children with short attention spans and faulty critical thinking skills. You did not stop fascists you tool. You believed in their fake elections and that somehow your team "won". It's the game not the players fool. You voted for Coke over Pepsi. Coke still dominates the niche and isn't going anywhere.