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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWing nuts are irate over these kids
"Quit advocating for ridiculous things like gun restrictions and go back to your abstinence class."
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Wing nuts are irate over these kids (Original Post)
Va Lefty
Mar 2018
OP
Apart from some extreme exceptions (like 9/11), anything that pisses off RWers is good for America.
LonePirate
Mar 2018
#3
The Faux News radio wingnut today kept saying that nobody knows why theyre protesting, and that
Oneironaut
Mar 2018
#4
The best thing is that these kids are going to be registering to vote in a few years
smirkymonkey
Mar 2018
#5
Gothmog
(145,216 posts)1. LOL
spanone
(135,831 posts)2. i take that as a good sign...
LonePirate
(13,420 posts)3. Apart from some extreme exceptions (like 9/11), anything that pisses off RWers is good for America.
Oneironaut
(5,494 posts)4. The Faux News radio wingnut today kept saying that nobody knows why theyre protesting, and that
nobody likes the protesters. It must be hard to wade in that volume of bullshit.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. The best thing is that these kids are going to be registering to vote in a few years
and they are motivated!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)6. I think it really enrages them when kids like David Hogg say things like
"They work for us" referring to politicians.
And when the kids point out the fact that young people need to start showing up at the polls if they want to have influence and change things.
Link to tweet
Simply put politicians do not care about our generation because young people 18-29 don't vote and that's a huge reason why we have the student debt problem, environmental problems and gun violence because we show our political leaders they can get away with what they want NO MORE