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America's youngest voters turn right
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"We're not going to listen to you because you don't vote."
"Wait! Why are you voting for someone we don't like?"
"What do you mean, 'we should have listened'? We didn't listen because you don't vote!"
This is a dumb take. The artist doesn't listen to the clay when he molds it. This is not about listening. It is about telling.
Impressionable young men being propagandized to. Manipulated to be political about topics they don't understand.
Being fed lies that will hurt them and everyone around them the rest of their lives so someone can get their money and their votes.
They are not tapping these young men's reality. They are creating it.
And meanwhile, the message they get from Democrats is "fuck off you don't vote." Who are then surprised when they fuck off.
The Democratic party should play to these young men's insecurities, lie to them, and turn them against society am I right?
This is propaganda, psychological manipulation that the conservatives are using. Fear following into hate is a very effective tactic.
There is no effective counter because now you have to convince a incel they are wrong. People believe what they hear especially if you are using the best of psychology to fuck with them.
You really can't fathom that treating young people with respect and listening to their concerns will keep them from falling for lies in the first place?
I guess courting anyone but decrepit old racist boomers is completely foreign to centrists, and it explains every last one of their policies.
You act like it is the Democratic parties responsibility to inoculate against all the problems the Republicans created.
The conservatives lost because the Democratic Party did their policies better than they could. They moved to the right and instead of trying to counter them the conservatives just went off the deep end.
I don't feel sorry for them nor do I applaud the direction the Democratic party went.
I mean, if they want young people to vote for them, yeah. Of course, given their actions they don't want young people to vote for them.
I mean, that's great if your only objective is to move to the right. And in centrists' case, it is.
I think we can pretty much agree on this.