I agree with you on most things, but I think you're creating a bit of strawman or I'm not being clear.
So I'm saying a couple things:
- When young voters show up they get candidates they like (Obama was popular in 08 and 12)
- Politicians do not engage low voter turnout demographics who choose not to vote.
- Young and younger voters make up the same percentage of voters as baby boomers and the silent generation.
- As a result they have to turn out in historic numbers or they will always be at the will of the later
She said she was a bartender because she wanted to move back home and help her mother after her father passed away.
Not because she couldn't find work and was thus underwater with student debt.
It was a conscious choice, but it explains why she worked for Bernie and Medicare for all appealed to her.
*she left her bartending job to work on the campaign
That's one of the original activist generations and anti activist generations. They're retired, have time and I don't see a reason to criticize them for voting. Though many of them are prime victims of voter fraud and oppression.
If younger voters voted at the same clip as their older counterparts did when they were their age they'd have more palatable elected officials.
However, you're right on some of these factors. Schools don't prepare students to vote, voter registration forms are easily purged if they aren't perfect, and automatic voter registration would help offset many of these issues.
There's also the issue of decades if stigmatizing these idea of talking politics in public, in private, or among friends/family.
We also likely agree that candidates targeting young voters increases their likely hold of being first time voters.
But we also know that candidates don't target non voting populations.
doesn't give a fukk