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How do we get more millennials to vote?

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.
 
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.

Banking 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

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.
 
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.
 
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.

Except things can change very, very quickly. 14 years of PT rule seemed to suggest that Brazil was becoming more and more progressive, indeed it was widely believed that memory of the dictatorship made right wing politics taboo. But that all came crashing down in the space of three years as the stage was set for Jair Bolsonaro.

Assuming Demographics will make america more like Scandinavia or Germany relies on a craptonne of IFs.
 
Assuming Demographics will make america more like Scandinavia or Germany relies on a craptonne of IFs.
America won't become like Scandinavia, the mindsets of people are simply far too different.

And America shouldn't try to be like Scandinavia either, as much as many Americans will gripe they have done rather well for themselves.
 
How do we gets more millennials to vote and/or organize politically?
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.
 
Make voting days a work holiday. Everybody loves holidays.
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.
 
No 'work to live' mentality, the Millennials can actually vote.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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.
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...

Federally requiring a voting period that companies legally cannot remove is a perfectly workable way of making voting available, and time is not the constraint. Again, with 10 hour work days, well above the norm, and 10 hours of sleep, well above the norm, you still have four hours you could spend going out to vote, so unless your commute is absolutely nightmarish, you should have the time to do it. You are fundamentally misunderstanding the numbers because you're thinking employees can just decide to work longer or that having two jobs is normal, but it isn't normal, nor can you just decide to work longer.

Edit: More you're failing to comprehend about the situation: Not everyone has work hours that overlap voting hours at all. Lots of people can get going a bit earlier to vote before or after work, a decent chunk can vote during breaks they get on a daily basis, people have free time because it's actually quite difficult to get to the point where your entire day revolves entirely around work and, generally, there's a lot of ways someone living paycheck-to-paycheck can still have the time available to vote.
 
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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.
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.

So anyway short version: make it illegal to prevent someone from voting and make absentee voting easier. That's my structural advice.
 
Eh, in US terms at least. what Horton suggests is honestly the way to go. Cpl Facehugger once said that, as a Millennial, he saw the Republican party as the party that initiated the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the economic meltdown of the US circa 2008. I can't find the exact quote though.

But worldwide? well, I can't speak for Europe, but for Indonesia? what you would generally consider as 'left wing' or 'globalist' policies are usually very, VERY popular here, There's a summit in Bali a couple months ago, and while the opposition tries to argue the typical nationalist rhetoric of how these dirty IMFians are trying to take your money or whatever. The moment the finance minister of the country suddenly came out with what the country got out of that summit, everyone went silent.
 
I know what I said isn't very popular, I'd like to win on merits too; But I look around at my family and there 3 people my age or younger and 12 older then us, there are certain realities I feel we should at least address
 
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