When the left sits out, the right wins. And when voters sit out, parties leave them behind. Political parties will chase likely voters every single time, and if you’re not a voter, your opinion doesn’t even register to the leaders of this country. How even could it, if you don’t participate?!
I agree completely, and I’d argue that the consistent inability of the youth to mobilize at any point in the past 100 years has been a major contributing factor that keeps the Democrats from caring much what they think. For better or worse, if you abstain, you prove that you’re not worth the effort. Every time they try something big like MTV’s Rock the Vote campaign in the 1990s, they get burned by the lowest youth turnout in the modern era. Obama targeted Millennial voters hard, but it turns out his victories had more to do with swaying young voters than driving more turnout. Midterm youth turnout literally never gets much above 30%, and 2018 was the first time Millennials got even close to the turnout of boomers and Gen Xers.
When the left sits out, the right wins. And when voters sit out, parties leave them behind. Political parties will chase likely voters every single time, and if you’re not a voter, your opinion doesn’t even register to the leaders of this country. How even could it, if you don’t participate?!