Young people swing liberal, or even left. That doesn’t mean the left is majority youth, or that leftism is what is tied to not voting, as opposed to youth.
I genuinely don’t understand why this is a difficult logical hurdle for you to overcome.
Maybe I should be more precise in my language. I’m starting to realize that my rhetoric is a bit too general for social media and I’m painting with broad brush strokes to favor brevity (and I’m also tired). I never intended to say the left is predominantly youth, but rather that most youth skew left. If the youth showed up to vote, we wouldn’t have a slim majority in the house thus making any legislative progress almost impossible because of moderate democrats like J. Manchin — who are clearly representing their electorate— blocking any progressive bill. This topic is really well studied, I’m not sure why we’re even arguing.
Eligible Outsider Left were 9 percentage points less likely to vote in the 2020 presidential election than the average adult citizen and 11 points less likely to vote than the average Democrat or Democratic-leaning citizen. Only about two-in-ten (21%) say they follow what’s going on in government and politics most of the time.
Young people swing liberal, or even left. That doesn’t mean the left is majority youth, or that leftism is what is tied to not voting, as opposed to youth.
I genuinely don’t understand why this is a difficult logical hurdle for you to overcome.
Maybe I should be more precise in my language. I’m starting to realize that my rhetoric is a bit too general for social media and I’m painting with broad brush strokes to favor brevity (and I’m also tired). I never intended to say the left is predominantly youth, but rather that most youth skew left. If the youth showed up to vote, we wouldn’t have a slim majority in the house thus making any legislative progress almost impossible because of moderate democrats like J. Manchin — who are clearly representing their electorate— blocking any progressive bill. This topic is really well studied, I’m not sure why we’re even arguing.
From: Pew Research
Sure. I agree with that. That’s not what you were originally saying, but if you’re retracting the initial and inserting this statement, we agree.