Unfortunately the numbers don’t lie, youth voter turn out is down since 2008. Young voters support Bernie Sanders in overwhelming numbers, 86-14 in New Hampshire. That is massive, even better than Obama. Still, we NEED TO VOTE. We NEED to stay ACTIVE and involved! This political revolution is to make OUR country a better place, we need to quit letting 65 year old voters decide the future of our country. PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY! BERNIE SANDERS 2016!
REGISTER RIGHT HERE, DO IT TODAY, RIGHT NOW, DO NOT WAIT!
I just registered, it took 5 minutes. All you need is a driver’s license or ID. I don’t like politics on my dash, but I’m reblogging this because no matter who you support, you should register to vote, and this post has a link that makes it very easy to get started.
I don’t appreciate these posts that make it out to be like the only barrier to youths voting is laziness and apathy.
1) as far as I know, there are no systems in place to teach kids how to vote. My mom said she went to catholic school where they actually had field trips to go to voting booths and see how it worked. I don’t know anyone my age that has had that.
2) there is virtually no support for the actual act of voting (which is separate from the act of registering to vote). In Iowa I heard that Bernie sanders was bussing students to the polls so they could vote—why in the hell is he the only one I’ve heard of doing this? By the way, where the hell do you actually go to vote?
3) there is no support for people who face obstacles to getting an ID. No buses, no nothing. You can’t set an appointment to get an ID (at least here because I’ve tried) and actually getting the ID is more complex than voting.
I am so sick of these posts trying to guilt people into voting and then not offering a single piece of support beyond “here is the link to register that I just googled.”
as a young person of color i especially don’t appreciate the condescension as it’s coming mainly from white people.
(Source: millennial-review, via academicfeminist)
