Comment by BobbyJo
13 hours ago
It worked. The only people upset about it are young people who don't vote. If young people don't want a continual wealth transfer from them to the old, they need to start voting. That's been the case since 2008, and here we are a generation later.
You mean the young people who cannot (or could not) vote because they are under 18?
Also very bold of you to assume voting does much.
(coming from a 22 year old who votes at every federal, state and local election).
People under 40 have much lower voter turnout than people over 40. 75% of 65+ year olds vote. Less than 50% of 18-25 year olds vote. I wasn't referring to children.
The way people voted in the last federal election did a whole lot. Granted, it’s effectively limited to people in swing states.
Old people will be the majority for the foreseeable future, though. To be honest, the only strategy that I currently see for young people is waiting and growing old, unfortunately..
This is a well-known affliction of democracy.
Logically, it seems insane that people who live on other people's taxes have the right to vote. Officials, public sector employees, and anyone else who receives money from the government rather than contributes to it shouldn't vote.
It's hard to take the "just vote" seriously after the rash of gerrymandering happening in the south. Some elections were even downright cancelled.
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