In 2020, Bernie Sander’s youth movement saw 13% youth voter turnout during the “Super Tuesday” Democratic primary event. There is evidence that, although Bernie Sanders polls well among America’s youths, polling well with a group is immaterial if 87% of that group are not interested enough in the subject to turn out to vote. Many young people support Bernie Sanders because he is “cool” or even “safe” but they would also need to be physically dragged away from /r/awww and Porhub before they could vote for Bernie Sanders, in which case theirs would be a vote cast out of pure ignorance. The truth is that the majority of the population is not very interested, largely because a majority will never actively support many of the party planks that have come to define the new left. The new left wants active support for its positions but the average person will never go beyond passive support. To explain what I mean by this, the following goals of the “new left” are unattainable Democratically: (1) the majority will never vote to ban themselves from having a certain kind of food, such as beef or lamb (which are viewed as having the largest environmental impacts). (2) traditional minority non-discrimination laws do not require active participation from the majority, they merely require a form of non-action from members of the majority. But the new left wants active participation in non-discrimination. (3) the majority will never vote away their fundamental ability to possess a personal vehicle, not until it is “too late” for the environment. (4) entertainment for entertainment’s sake will always be more financially successful than entertainment as political education. This is why the “woke media” movement always fails, woke media is fundamentally weaker in a free market environment. (5) there are probably more points besides this that I haven’t listed. For all of the above reasons, I want to ask leftists: why are you still supporting democracy if you know that the people will never support your goals? For me, I already have a theory. I have come to believe that many among the new left have chosen unattainable goals on purpose. All of this is, to put it nicely, an act of defiance. Supporting the above positions democratically (instead of militarily, which is the only way they would have a chance in hell of happening) is the proverbial “screaming helplessly at the sky”. Our civilization is approaching some kind of post-existentialism, wherein the non-divinity of human nature is rebelled against in a material way, one that must ultimately be acknowledged as hopeless. I suspect that how people choose to cope with that hopelessness will become the defining question for our generation.
I would love to know how they arrive at these voting statistics. I have been voting since 1961 and never ever have I had anyone EVER ask me my age.
Date of birth is part of your voters registration info. I think I heard Sanders say he would drop out if Biden has more delegates by the convention. Sounds like they got to him again... just like Trump said they would. That (if true) plus the sorry turnout by young supporters = much ado about nothing. Just like 2016.
One anecdotal but informative example is in the Texas primary where the shoo-in virtually unopposed Trump got more votes that the top four Democrat candidates combined.
Too bad for Bernie. If any demographic will vote for him, it'll for sure be those who haven't ever collected a paycheck.
