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Amran Gowani's avatar

I'm picking up everything you're putting down, and while I don't want to fall into the "realpolitik" rabbit hole, I do think young progressives need to become a much more reliable voting bloc before the spineless Dems will make any substantive shifts on policy.

I hate that, and I think it's cowardly for the party, but there's a cynical rationality to assuming it's easier to pluck off an old person who's only slightly racist and only scared of most things than banking on a 22-year-old to show up at the polls.

I'm in my mid-forties now but I only started voting reliably in my late twenties. Obviously I wish had I been more engaged when I was younger, but it's hard to convince young voters to give a shit when the neoliberal consensus is doing backroom deals and pork barrel politics like the days of yesteryear while the world burns.

I don't have any answers, but I do hope young voters and progressives show up big for Kamala and then stay politically engaged. The Dems have no moral compass and will shift with the winds to hold power. Hopefully the progressive voting bloc will emerge and force them, kicking and screaming, in that direction.

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Billie Shafran's avatar

Thanks for sharing how you voted and your thoughts on it all, fr. it's pretty hard to do the math for project 2025 + ongoing genocide and knowing where my cohorts land is genuinely helpful. (literally last night i was laying in bed thinking, THIS IS SUCH A MESS, WHAT THE HELL IS OUR PLAN?)

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