What would motivate "young people" to vote? -

[Iwasamwillbe]

Every election year, there is a seemingly neverending campaign to get "the youth" and "young people" (basically meaning those between 18 to 35) to go out and vote (for "their guy", of course). Yet every election year, only a small minority of those selfsame "young people" actually get out to vote.

So here I ask: what would actually motivate "young people" to vote en masse during an election season? What would actually drive up voter turnout among "young people"?

 

[ZombiefiedFerret]

Free sex and money.

 

[The Fool]

Sorry I'm nearing 30 so I've officially lost my ability to empathize with anyone under 25 anymore.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Only faggy young adults care about politics.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Free tokens in phone games

 

[Ridge Racer]

Having candidates who don't suck.

 

[Otis Boi]

Having candidates who don't suck.

or just any that isnt old enough to be there Great grandparent run.That or have an understanding of issues that they are currently facing.

 

[The Last Stand]

or just any that isnt old enough to be there Great grandparent run.That or have an understanding of issues that they are currently facing.

So far, I would say the schooling system in America needs work.

Zoomers can't vote, but something would need to be done about the college debt bubble plaguing countless millennials.

 

[R00T]

Having candidates who don't suck.

As a young voter this is the only thing that would truly motivate me to care about my vote more. Barraging me with stupid ads filled with my "fellow youth" telling me "its our generation" and "we don't want to look dumb for our grandchildren" does nothing to encourage me to vote. Every ad I've seen has told me to go vote but not to look at what the candidates actually stand for. Its disgusting.

 

[Salubrious]

Sorry I'm nearing 30 so I've officially lost my ability to empathize with anyone under 25 anymore.

I still remember when I graduated college and all my peers were talking like they had to accomplish all their life goals by 30 or else they would be too old to do them.

Is that still a thing?

 

[Eris!]

Having mortgages and taxes to pay. Politics is purely abstract to teenagers.

 

[The Fool]

I still remember when I graduated college and all my peers were talking like they had to accomplish all their life goals by 30 or else they would be too old to do them.

Is that still a thing?

Absolutely.

 

[Eris!]

Absolutely.

It's kind of true. Life calcifies very quickly when 30 rolls around. What you've got going on when you're 30 is pretty much what you've got going on forever.

 

[Salubrious]

Absolutely.

I don't know if this is always been the case, or technology has accelerated the gap, but it seems like generations are getting faster and faster.

I feel like a 30 year old has less in common with a 20 year old than a 50 year old.

Am I imagining that? Or have I become a boomer? Or both?

 

[The Fool]

I don't know if this is always been the case, or technology has accelerated the gap, but it seems like generations are getting faster and faster.

I feel like a 30 year old has less in common with a 20 year old than a 50 year old.

Am I imagining that? Or have I become a boomer? Or both?

After the industrial revolution occurred, education and literacy rates skyrocketed, and the papers said that the average person was living a lifetime is only a decade, or something to that extent. And in the 2000s I remember reading plenty of papers suggesting we make college mandatory considering how the average life span has been extended.

I don't think it's your imagination. I think as more people use the internet and as more of the internet is converged into single places online like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit, more people are exposed to each other and become exposed to their opinions and ideologies faster, like a philosophical vaccine. Children today are definitely experiencing life much faster than even people two decades ago. Not to say they're becoming wiser, just that they're being exposed to much more than previous generations were. Even I felt that affect as a child born in the 90s, by the time I was 20 I felt like I was 50, just because I spent so much time online having in-depth conversations and debates with people that I had felt like I'd seen it all.

 

[Digital Thunder]

I still remember when I graduated college and all my peers were talking like they had to accomplish all their life goals by 30 or else they would be too old to do them.

Is that still a thing?

People worry about it that late? I had convinced myself for years that my life would be over if I didn't have my shit in order by the time I was 18. In retrospect, that idea was fucking retarded.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I don't know, man. Young people seem to be voting more than they have in the last 100 years. It seems like they finally got around to doing it.

 

[MemeGrey]

If they replaced the candidates with big titty anime girls, at least thats what would convince me

 

[The Fool]

I don't know, man. Young people seem to be voting more than they have in the last 100 years. It seems like they finally got around to doing it.

I was actually meaning to ask in this thread if there actually is a shortage of young voters or if all this shit is just propaganda.

So yeah I guess it is just propaganda.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

I was actually meaning to ask in this thread if there actually is a shortage of young voters or if all this shit is just propaganda.

So yeah I guess it is just propaganda.

It really just is, at least this year. I'm not surprised by it. With how chaotic everything has become, it's little surprise that young people are actually going out and voting more.