They're the cavalry

[Roland99]

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Link to tweet

UPDATE: Taylor Swift endorses Tennessee Democrats (maybe this will bring in more younger voters?)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BopoXpYnCes/?utm_source=ig_embed

[YOHABLO]

1. Unfortunately that age group thinks they're way above politics. Too busy doing nothing on the iphone

[byronius]

2. Uh, both my kids are in that age group and are dedicated participants in our democracy.

They will vote in every election they can for the rest of their lives. So will every single one of their friends. I see a great deal of engagement and anger in their age group. I see no slackers at all. Anecdotal but that is my experience.

Everyone except for my son's best friend from Ghana. He can't vote. He just makes sarcastic comments about how ridiculous we look.

[Kind of Blue]

6. +1000 Thank You.

Mine, too. And two more nieces who just came of voting age. No slackers whatsoever and, as you say, my experience of they and their friends who are highly engaged.

Responded to your post because of the young Ghanaian friend. As an African unhyphenated American, I remember when I was about 23 and didn't care about voting, living on my own, my dad called an emergency meeting of we three kids who were also on their own. Dad refused to say what the problem was, demanding we get into his car and proceeded to lambaste us for repeatedly throwing away the main reason that he came here, the right to vote, a voice, a choice, all the way to the polls. Of course, his raving included gruesome stories of those back in Africa in the '50s and '60s who dared to speak out.

To be sure, I've grown disgusted from time to time about the worth of voting but that day will never leave me and nor has it left my siblings.

[Pachamama]

3. +1000

Completely Agree and its what gives me hope still....

I was in complete despair yesterday afternoon....and then my daughter who is a freshman in College called me via FaceTime and wanted to talk....

She was laying on her roommates bed and they both were calling me to say hi....she said she was calling because she wanted to make sure her voter registration and ability to vote was secured. Her roommate is from CT and was keeping her registration there and was happy that she has Senator Blumenthal and Murphy.

We talked about the Kavanaugh vote and she and her roommate said they were so sick and disgusted and that they said the students on campus were energized and protesting. They said they are praying to be getting the Congress back in control of Democrats and more women in charge. They said there needs to be impeachment of Trump and Kavanaugh.

I felt better when the call was over....it gave me hope...they are the future and the cavalry....

[Rhiannon12866]

4. My friend's daughter turns 18 - the day after this election!

And she was born on the day of another consequential election in 2000.

[TwistOneUp]

5. A perfect synopsis.

Elegant, succinct, and to the point. Thank you for this!

I'm hopping mad, but then I'm a feisty almost-retiree and I began donating to NARAL in '79. And with the exception of the Parkland kids, I'm not seeing a lot of protesting. I'm seeing complacency. Progress so far on banning bump stocks? ZERO.

We need a flood of GenYers/Millenials and GenZers as they attain voting age to Get.The.Fuck.Out.There and vote.

[Achilleaze]

7. The KGOP republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is nervous about Americans

[Roland99]

8. We had a good talk w/our 18 year-old this morning

On the way to a 5k we had time in the car. Discussed the Kavanaugh situation and touched on Clarence Thomas and how the rich white male conservative is on a last gasp power grab and women need to step up and work all that much harder for respect. Told her if her and all of her friends and everyone her age were to vote, republicans wouldn’t be elected to offices for years to come

[Roland99]

9. Taylor Swift breaks political silence, endorses two Democrats in Tennessee

Maybe this will help bring in younger voters?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pop-star-taylor-swift-breaks-silence-endorses-two-democrats-tennessee-n917616

In a post on Instagram, Swift — who moved to Tennessee as a teenager — said she planned to vote for former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredsen for U.S. Senate and Rep. Jim Cooper in his reelection bid to Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District.

“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” Swift said.

Saying she supports LGBTQ rights and is against systemic racism and other forms of discrimination, Swift said she couldn’t support Bredsen’s opponent, Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn.

And her Instagram post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BopoXpYnCes/