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  • Eyron@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Vote. Seriously. (If practical: get involved, too). The U.S. is currently in the middle of a large shift of generational power.

    Many of these changes are fairly recent:

    • 2020 was the first federal election where the Baby Boomers didn’t make up the largest voting generation.
    • It was only in 2016 that the number Gen X and younger voting numbers grew larger than the boomer and older numbers.
    • Those numbers had been possible since 2010. Despite having more eligible voters (135M vs 93M), the “GenXers and younger” only had ~36M actual voters, compared to ~57M older ones.

    Looking forward, the numbers only get better for younger voters. There hasn’t been a demographic shift like this in the U.S. in a long time (ever?). The current power structures can not be maintained for much longer. It is still possible for that shift to be peaceful. Please encourage the peaceful transfer: vote. Vote in the primaries. Maybe even vote for better voting systems. This time is unique, but change takes time. Don’t let them fool you otherwise: that’s just them trying to hold on to their power.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      2020 had very flexible early voting and absentee voting and many people weren’t going to work in person anyway.

      Every prior year, being retired was a huge advantage for ability to go to the polling places and actually vote. It’s easy to see how retirees would be represented disproportionately given that reality.