My impression is that contrary to the headline, this isn’t a young vs old thing, but a follows-the-news vs doesn’t-follow-news thing
I was seeing posts weeks ago about “how do you expect the Democrats to do anything if you don’t vote them into power” , and I see this and get mad thinking, this is why people aren’t voting for you, this is why so many voters are mad at you, you have the power to do something, anything and your reply is “I’m sorry I called the GOP bastards” when the GOP has no problem calling you literal baby eaters.
Shockingly enough, there’s things called “primaries” where you can show the fuck up and get these fossils out for people who actually act in the best interest of their citizenry.
The catch being the “showing the fuck up” part.
Difficult in a state where you have to declare a party (and “none” doesn’t count; they only recognize R or D)
Sounds like it’s as easy as declaring a party. Are there some strange initiation rituals you need to go through to declare? Sacrifice a goat or something?
What if I don’t want to declare a party and remain independent?
Well I suppose you could always whine about it online instead?
It costs you nothing to register as a Dem so you can vote against these fuckers in the primaries, except maybe some worthless sense of idealogical purity.
I have 0 desire to be mercilessly spammed by the Dems or Repubs because I registered with their party.
Plus no one but me should know / needs to know my party affiliation. In today’s day and age of wanting more privacy, this is part of it. I don’t want to be on the wrong side of history because I was registered with a party.
Apparantly you also have 0 desire to see effective change unless it’s exactly as you want it, because you refuse to participate on principal.