- Joined
- Sep 27, 2018
The last time the youth got a candidate that they supposedly actually liked onto the national stage was 1972 and said candidate got absolutely crushed in one of the biggest landslides in US history. And that was with the voting age having just been reduced to 18.Here's an anecdote about that: a good friend of mine has been dating this 24 year old girl who is super into politics and very right wing (so is my buddy so they seemed like a good match). She's been totally onboard the Trump train since he came down the golden escalator back in 2015 and they chat daily about the kind of political spergery that you'd only see on forums like this. Earlier this week he asks her if she voted yet and she gave this whiny "I have so much stuff going on with my community college semester and (insert other inane early 20's minutiae), I just don't have TIME to vote this year" diatribe. My friend had to severely browbeat this dumb bitch who spent the entire time during the summer riots this year ranting nonstop about how our republic was under attack to go to the fucking polls for half an hour to cast her ballot for Trump. He's less than sanguine about a future relationship with her now.
Any candidate who counts on the youth vote to turn out for them in any election does so at their own peril.