Spacehillbilly
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How do we gets more millennials to vote and/or organize politically?
Legalize drugs.How do we gets more millennials to vote and/or organize politically?
Over half of Snake People have a negative opinion of Capitalism, fully a third identify as Socialists. @Horton's answer is probably the ideal one: The defining event in the coming of age of Snake People is the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks, if you want them to enthusiastically vote you've got to offer candidates and ideas that are different from the people and ideas that presided over the system when that crash happened, indeed Democrats in many cases are running the exact same people.
The less ideal: Go full on accelerationist. Scared people vote and Snake People are 44% minority, it's why you're seeing them start to come out even in the face of Liberals who delusionally clamor for "Bipartisan Free Marketplace of Ideas" when the other side is Fascists.
and? In the US which I presume we're talking here, millennials swung left, as was the case in the UKBanking on Demographics worked well for Brazil didn't it?
and? In the US which I presume we're talking here, millennials swung left, as was the case in the UK
Yes, I'm sure America and a latin american country who was under the control of a military dictatorship within living memory have a lot in common demographically.It's more this naive idea that a country having no ethnic majority is going to become some idealised vision of Western Europe when Brazil presented an active test of this thesis. Or that Demographics will guarantee Left wing policy forever When Jair Bolsonaro still managed to win despite being far more right wing than Trump.
Yes, I'm sure America and a latin american country who was under the control of a military dictatorship within living memory have a lot in common demographically.
America won't become like Scandinavia, the mindsets of people are simply far too different.Assuming Demographics will make america more like Scandinavia or Germany relies on a craptonne of IFs.
Completely and utterly annihilate the idea and mentality of 'Work to Live' in it's entirety and do it so well that it is only referenced in history books. That is a major block to Millennials voting as this mentality has ensured that they have to stay at work or basically die. No 'work to live' mentality, the Millennials can actually vote.How do we gets more millennials to vote and/or organize politically?
Nope, companies will force people to work on most holidays. I used to work at Walmart and there is literally only one holiday that they respect and that is Christmas. This doesn't include that we've got many companies where having it a holiday is simply not possible (we've got a guy who works in a manufacturing job in the US that has machines that can only shut down over a period of two hours without damaging them (fixing them will take something on the order of days) and cost at least 1k to simply start up.Make voting days a work holiday. Everybody loves holidays.
Okay, you need to prove this, and show that federally mandating reasonable hours that aren't allowed for work can't get the job done. Forcing there to be nobody working won't function, but having it so that, for example, there is a legally required four hour break between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight (company's choice on placement within that window, so many can keep their normal shifts) assures that the immense majority of the population will have the time to vote.. Seriously, even with a 10 hour work day, there's still going to be plenty of time to vote if you put the slightest thought into it. Even with 10 hours of sleep, that's four unaccounted for hours in which they can go vote. Sure, it may fuck their free time, and transportation might get the window to be tight, but if they want to vote, then they can go do that. They have the time. It's actually remarkably bullshit to not have the time to vote, some people can pull it off on their lunch hour (as happened with my dad this year).No 'work to live' mentality, the Millennials can actually vote.
The whole thing is money. Going out and vote means for pretty much ~80% of the US that they'll literally have to choose car or rent over fucking food. Any time not spent working means a lesser paycheck that won't pay the bills. Companies ignore holidays already, they have forced people to work on holidays.Okay, you need to prove this, and show that federally mandating reasonable hours that aren't allowed for work can't get the job done. Forcing there to be nobody working won't function, but having it so that, for example, there is a legally required four hour break between the hours of 6 p.m. and midnight (company's choice on placement within that window, so many can keep their normal shifts) assures that the immense majority of the population will have the time to vote.. Seriously, even with a 10 hour work day, there's still going to be plenty of time to vote if you put the slightest thought into it. Even with 10 hours of sleep, that's four unaccounted for hours in which they can go vote. Sure, it may fuck their free time, and transportation might get the window to be tight, but if they want to vote, then they can go do that. They have the time. It's actually remarkably bullshit to not have the time to vote, some people can pull it off on their lunch hour (as happened with my dad this year).
Time isn't the constraint. There's sometimes a constraint on timing, but this is fairly easily solved with a mandetory period of free time in which voting stations must be open. No need to kill the "work to live" mentality to fix this particular problem.
First off, your citation offers a perfectly workable explanation that has nothing to do with the "work to live" mentality: Debt. 71% in debt, 78% living pay check to paycheck. How much overlap do you think that has? Guess what the largest contributor to the Millennial debt total is? Student loans, because they don't get properly informed that they actually have to pay that back and need a genuinely profitable degree to do so. And with something like a quarter of them going through university...The whole thing is money. Going out and vote means for pretty much ~80% of the US that they'll literally have to choose car or rent over fucking food. Any time not spent working means a lesser paycheck that won't pay the bills. Companies ignore holidays already, they have forced people to work on holidays.
It's illegal in Australia (where we have compulsory voting) to stop someone from voting. But we also have postal/absentee voting that is open for a couple of weeks before the formal election day so that people who know they will be away can organise their vote.Nope, companies will force people to work on most holidays. I used to work at Walmart and there is literally only one holiday that they respect and that is Christmas. This doesn't include that we've got many companies where having it a holiday is simply not possible (we've got a guy who works in a manufacturing job in the US that has machines that can only shut down over a period of two hours without damaging them (fixing them will take something on the order of days) and cost at least 1k to simply start up.
Can we not with the ageism? It's not like every boomer votes the same way.um how about we just get the old ones to give up?
Or like the idea of going further left, for that matter.And as much as I'd love a swing of policy worldwide to the left, you're kidding yourself if you think every millennial votes progressive.