Teapublican Obstruction leads to Fewer Millennial Voters. Was that Planned?

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/teapublican-obstruction-leads-to-fewer-millennial-voters-was-that-planned/

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It’s a fair question. Did Boehner and McConnell and all the other Kochsuckers work to cut down on Democratic voter turnout at the same time they stuck it to the Prexy all these years? It’s one way to interpret those falling numbers of Millennial voters:

And for a while, it didn’t look like millennials would need much convincing. As more members of this generation reached voting age, participation among young voters rose. The peak year was 2008 (52 percent). In 2012, the turnout among voters 18-29 dropped to 45 percent.

On top of that, the rate of voters under 30 who could say with certainty that they were registered to vote fell steadily after 2008, according to the Pew Research Center. By 2012, it hit 50 percent — the lowest number Pew has recorded going back as far as 1996.

Ashley Spillane, the president of Rock the Vote, says it’s no mystery why millennials, or any voters, would be turned off from the process: “Politics right now is really disheartening. I think it’s why you see in the polls that young people are not affiliating with political parties.”

Think about it for a second: right before the “Republicans” started their “f*** Obama and the voters he rode in on” campaign, youth voting numbers were frickin’ huge, because the kids believed change was possible. But after 6 years of deliberate Teabagger destruction of change, the youth of America are disillusioned and are disengaging. And Millennials tend to vote for Dems.

Coincidence? In these times? Yeah, right. There is no way to prove it, of course, but in the end it doesn’t really matter whether or not the GOP has been manipulating Millennials on purpose or just enjoying a fringe benefit of their racist, treasonous, corrupt plan to seize power.

It doesn’t matter for two reasons:
Number A: it is wrong to suppress votes, whether it is a primary or secondary goal, and
Letter 2: the way to fight back is to defy expectations, by voting.

Millennials, wake up: you have been played. Strike back by voting against every Repub in every race, every ballot, every election. Vote to show them you are smarter than they think you are. Vote, because they don’t want you to.

[DonCoquixote]

1. is water wet?

BUT fear not, because the Rand Paul types are trying to sell Millenials on their crap.

[riqster]

2. S'truth.

[DonCoquixote]

6. The sad fact is

The only thing keepin Paul from making more headway is the GOP establishment themsleves, who would rather have a Mitt or Jeb. Thanks to the Clinton-Obama axis of centrism, many young kids would rather lose social security to the devil they know than not, or at least the devil that will let them grow some weed. Of course, said kids also know that they would not be able to buy weed on the ten cents an hour that the Libs would replace minimum wage with.

[ancianita]

3. This connection isn't made often enough -- the one about planning. Thanks.

[riqster]

4. A lot of the Repub coup was planned.

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/you-dont-need-guns-to-overthrow-our-government/

http://www.thwink.org/sustain/articles/017_PowellMemo/

Which means that planning must be suspected elsewhere, too.

[msanthrope]

5. You Better Believe It. nt

[librechik]

7. obstructing liberal voters has been job one for the GOP since the 50's

at least. On issues, they are a vast minority. Since they are incapable of changing their disgusting platform to attract voters, all they can do is try to keep the other side from voting. They are masters at this, and citizens are too clueless to effectively stop them.

[marions ghost]

8. The Millennials are jaded about politics

and I don't blame them. They don't see the gains. But I don't think they'll go strong for Rethuglicons either.

Just vote, Millennials. The changes are slow but they will come.

[riqster]

9. Agreed. They are responding to real events.

[Gothmog]

10. The GOP can only win by suppressing the vote

[riqster]

11. Which is why GOTV is crucial.