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Title: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: MillCreek on November 04, 2018, 10:55:42 PM
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/12-young-people-on-why-they-probably-wont-vote.html

I am proud to say I registered to vote when I turned 18 and I have not missed an election in 40 years since.  Interesting how many of them think the process of voting or registering is too difficult.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Hawkmoon on November 04, 2018, 11:07:18 PM
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/12-young-people-on-why-they-probably-wont-vote.html

I am proud to say I registered to vote when I turned 18 and I have not missed an election in 40 years since.  Interesting how many of them think the process of voting or registering is too difficult.

Moving is too difficult for them. If there isn't an app for it, they think it's too much work.

Voting shouldn't be too easy. If it's too difficult for them to haul their sorry bods to a voting location, it's also probably too much work for them to educate themselves on the issues and the candidates. Make it too easy for them to vote, and their votes will be based on a couple of catchy sound bites rather than any understanding of what or who their vote is for.

I'm also against the notion of early voting. Election day is the first Tuesday of November. If you can't get to the polls on that day, there's provision for an absentee ballot. That's all that is necessary. All this other stuff just increases the opportunity for and probability of voting fraud.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: MillCreek on November 04, 2018, 11:38:34 PM
PS: the comments on the article are a hoot, and most of them pretty brutal to the subjects of the article.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Cliffh on November 05, 2018, 12:47:33 AM
Too hard to vote?  BAH!  Lazy bastards.

DW's in physical rehab facility re-cooping from back surgery.  She wheelchaired it to the car and made it to the polling place.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Ben on November 05, 2018, 08:03:28 AM
It's the Pax, the G-32 Paxilon Hydroclorate that we added to the air processors.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Fly320s on November 05, 2018, 08:15:13 AM
It's the Pax, the G-32 Paxilon Hydroclorate that we added to the air processors.

The democrats are pandering to the Reavers!
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Perd Hapley on November 05, 2018, 11:11:45 AM
https://www.dailywire.com/news/37961/democrats-complain-ptsd-anxiety-ahead-midterm-emily-zanotti


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“We're kind of just in the bed-wetting phase now," a Democratic pollster, who worked alongside the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, said in an interview with Politico. Another, a former Pelosi staffer, said she suffers from nightmares every night, after falling asleep reading the latest polls.

Others are “eating their feelings," according to a YouGov poll released just last week, and still others are complaining of symptoms of "post traumatic stress disorder" or PTSD. Last month, a study published in the Journal of American College Health showed that approximately one in four college students are suffering symptoms of PTSD not unlike those who have experienced school shootings — though all they've experienced is a disagreeable election result.

I'm impressed by their ability to whip themselves into a fake frenzy. I also wonder how much of this is just intended to whip up more fake frenzy, convincing people they should also feel traumatized and freaked out.

Also, I'm so addicted to Democratic post-election caterwauling, I don't know what I'll do if they actually win some seats in either house. I'll be jonesin' real bad.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: dogmush on November 05, 2018, 11:43:19 AM
How does one get PTSD before the trauma?  Post is right there in the name.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Perd Hapley on November 05, 2018, 11:45:12 AM
How does one get PTSD before the trauma?  Post is right there in the name.


I think they got the PTSD sometime after Trump's goons moved them into ghettos, but before he gassed them to death.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Pb on November 05, 2018, 12:44:32 PM
What the $^&* is wrong with these people?   ???
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: HankB on November 05, 2018, 02:17:05 PM
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who chooses not to vote ought to keep their pie hole shut if they don't like the outcome.

The democrats are pandering to the Reavers!

I know that was meant in jest, but if you pay attention to what democrat "leaders" say and - just as importantly, DON'T say - about the violent criminal class in places like Chicago, there's actually more than a grain of truth there.  =(
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: Andiron on November 05, 2018, 08:09:41 PM
How does one get PTSD before the trauma?  Post is right there in the name.

Taken literally. 

Hit those that claim PTSD for bullshit with a post.  Lots.
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: MillCreek on November 06, 2018, 12:24:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9guhV35o
Title: Re: Young voters who don't plan to vote
Post by: MechAg94 on November 06, 2018, 09:09:20 AM
Taken literally. 

Hit those that claim PTSD for bullshit with a post.  Lots.
A fence post.