What do you mean? Are you saying that I have to

[MineralMan]

go to some tired place and put marks on a ballot? No. Really? I don't have time for that shit. Why can't I vote for Bernie or whatever with a text? That sucks. Really...

[Skwmom]

1. Don't expect the past to always predict the future. n/t

[MineralMan]

5. I've been registering voters since I could.

You would not believe the excuses I've heard for not bothering to register and vote. This is just another one. If you don't think there are people who feel this way, you're wrong.

[MineralMan]

2. Wait...what? I have to register to vote?

[Scootaloo]

3. Did posting this make you feel better?

[MineralMan]

4. No. I feel about the same as usual.

Why do you ask?

Sometimes I feel good. Other times, I feel like being 70 years old sucks. Mostly, though, I'm doing OK.

[Scootaloo]

7. Your vision for Clinton's victory needs you to write off the largest voting age group in the US

In fact, you and many other Clinton supporters seem to be actively hoping young people stay home. Which is especially puzzling, since this is the age group where most of that vaunted diversity in the party is located.

Interesting.

let me guess - you're white, too.

[MineralMan]

9. Actually, no. I know several millennials who will vote

for Hillary at the Minnesota caucuses. They're friends of mine. You are incorrect. I also know some millennials who aren't interested in any voting or registration to vote. I talk to them every election year.

[Scootaloo]

10. Show them these posts you're making. I'm sure it will only encourage them

Nothing gets an 18 year fired up to register more than a septuagenarian white dude calling them lazy and worthless!

[Fumesucker]

14. It gets more obvious by the hour

The "get off my lawn you whippersnappers" contingent is rapidly escalating.

[Snotcicles]

15. Self removal Fume beat me to it. nt

[beaglelover]

23. Did posting this make you feel better?

[arcane1]

27. If younger people were drawn to Clinton, they'd be hailed as visionary geniuses.

If she gets the nomination, she'll need those votes. I guarantee you the attitude toward them will do a complete 180 here if that happens.

[LostOne4Ever]

6. ...

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[MineralMan]

8. I don't yell at clouds, really.

I prefer yelling at clueless people who don't get it.

[Act_of_Reparation]

19. Like old men who sneer derisively at the young because they yearn for more familiar times?

Because I like yelling at them, too.

[sadoldgirl]

11. Oh, I think that a lot of youngsters will vote

in the upcoming elections. The problem arises
afterwards. It needs new and energetic blood
to change the party, and that means work as
well as bodies on the ground and in the meetings.

Should Bernie lose, he will still use a megaphone
to keep his supporters active. At least that is my
hope. And yes, the party has to change for it to
survive at all.

[jeff47]

12. Fucking lazy kids!!! Who needs them?!?

Hint: We do, if we want to win. So maybe insulting them isn't the smartest thing to do.

[47of74]

20. The children now love luxury; they have bad manners,

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

- A paraphrase of a quote from The Clouds by Aristophanes.

[arcane1]

28. We are only a few steps away from "'X' type of people aren't 'Real Americans'" n/t

[jeff47]

31. Don't worry, they'll get to that point. (nt)

[BainsBane]

13. The DNC won't do it for me

cause they are engaged in a conspiracy to get Clinton elected.

[murielm99]

16. Maybe if they let people vote with

ten votes per device, from home, like "American Idol," or "Dancing with the Stars," they would do it.

Or, maybe they could register people while they wait in long lines at Walmart, because Walmart is too cheap to hire enough checkers. They probably still wouldn't show up to vote, unless there was free pizza and burgers.

[aidbo]

17. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It's funny because of stereotypes!

[Bluenorthwest]

18. In backward, antique States people still have to line up and beg to vote, but not around here!

No Oregonian is forced to go to some polling place for inspection, nor Washingtonians. Californians can if they want to but most of them don't because who the fuck wants to stand in line?

We vote at home, like citizens.

[aidbo]

25. +1

[tkmorris]

21. I'm not on your fucking lawn

Dude, ease up on insulting younger generations, mmk? The sideways swipe at Bernie supporters was kind of declassé as well.

[m-lekktor]

22. what a hateful/nasty post. nt

[beaglelover]

24. Seems to be a lot of sensitive millenials in this post. Living up to the sterotype very well.

[arcane1]

26. They don't have absentee and mail-in ballots where you live?

That sucks.

[yallerdawg]

29. Come on, MM!

Do you have any proof the Utes don't actually go down and vote?

[guillaumeb]

30. This is the counterpoint to the recent posts talking about how the baby boomers have:

1) ruined the country
2) Drained all the entitlement funds
3) are staying in all the good jobs
4) are too selfish to worry about others,

and on and on ad nauseum.

And all of this age division joins and is part of the class division, color division, and language division that the 1% need to keep the bottom 99% from realizing that this system of cancerous and ever expanding capitalism was never designed or intended to improve everyone' lives.

I am definitely not accusing Mineral Man of dividing people, but the GOP is constantly trying to do this. I think that MM is pointing out what seems to be a general lack of involvement/interest in electoral politics on the part of a segment of the younger people. It is up to the candidates, and the Parties, and sites like DU to remind people of the stakes in every election. If it takes different tactics with the younger crowd than the effort must be made.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Right. All those young whippersnappers who support Bernie

are too lazy to get out and actually vote for him. So instead they're just standing around on your lawn waiting for you to yell at them to get off it. Or better yet, text them.

[Autumn]

33. Young people are excited and you want them off your fucking lawn

[beam me up scottie]

34. ...

[LWolf]

35. I'll vote for him

from my comfy arm chair, with a cup of something good and a fire in the stove.

Then I'll stick a stamp on it and mail it, a couple of weeks before election day.

That's the way I like to vote. I don't have to deal with travel, parking, lines, booths, or polling machines and devices. Just me, all curled up, a black pen, and a stamp.

I'm sure the younger generation would text their vote if they could, lol.

The important thing is that they'll vote.