As
of April, 59% of U.S. adults who are eligible to vote are Gen Xers, Millennials
or “post-Millennials.” Yet if past midterm election turnout patterns hold true,
these younger Americans are unlikely
to cast the majority of votes this November.Time to break the mold! This year, everyone votes!
The only (peaceful) way to keep Trump and the Republicans in check, is to vote.
Register to Vote and Confirm or Change Registration
If you’re not voting against these people then you’re voting for them. You can’t bitch about what Trump is doing to this country if you’re not even attempting to do something about it.
listen i say this every time i see a voting post, but if there’s a barrier that keeps you from physically voting (like, you go to college in a different place than your permanent address, you have work/school, you’re home with kids, you’re disabled, etc) YOU CAN GET A MAIL IN BALLOT.
It’s called “absentee voting”, and over half of states don’t even require any sort of documentation for you to get one. You can literally just. Request one. And then you can vote by mail ahead of time, saving yourself So. Much. Stress.
[info on how to get an absentee ballot in each state]
Oregon has mail in ballots for everyone, and we consistently have high voter turn out, which is why I spread this info, every chance I can.
Note: Also, technically your employer has to give you a couple hours off on election day if you’re working more than a certain number of hours, but losing paid hours isn’t an option for a lot of people. So get on that absentee request!
I’m going to get political for half a second and say absentee voting is really easy!
If you’re a little lost on who to vote for: This app assesses your political views and shows your % matches.
+A list of everyone who voted against net neutrality (Avoid voting for, so the internet stays free)
+Environmentally Supportive senators
The Villages is America’s largest retirement community, a carefully
planned, meticulously groomed dreamscape of gated subdivisions,
wall-to-wall golf courses, adult-only pools and old-fashioned town
squares. It’s advertised as “Florida’s friendliest hometown,” and it’s
supposed to evoke a bygone era of traditional values when Americans knew
their neighbors, respected their elders and followed the rules. It has
the highest concentration of military veterans of any metropolitan area
without a military base. It has strict regulations enforcing the
uniformity of homes (no second stories, no bright colors, no modern
flourishes) as well as the people living in them (no families with
children, except to visit). And it is Trump country, a reliably
Republican, vocally patriotic, almost entirely white enclave that gave
the president nearly 70 percent of the vote.Older voters are America’s most reliable voters, which is why
baby-boomer boomtowns like The Villages represent the most significant
threat to a potential Democratic wave in Florida in 2018—and the most
significant source of Republican optimism for many years to come.
Because while the Villages may look like the past, with its retro
architecture and gray-haired demographics, it sells like the future.
This master-planned paradise an hour northwest of Disney World has been
the fastest-growing metro area in the United States in four of the past
five years. And as the baby boom generation continues to retire, The
Villages is continuing to expand into nearby cattle pastures, luring
more pensioners to this fantasyland in the sunshine, gradually swinging
America’s largest swing state to the right.Trump supporters who get the most media attention tend to be
economically anxious laborers in economically depressed factory towns.
But in Florida, economically secure retirement meccas like The Villages
are the real reason Trump won in 2016—and why the state’s Republicans,
who have controlled Tallahassee for two decades, think they can avoid a
blue wave in 2018 and help reelect Trump in 2020. For all the hype about
Puerto Ricans moving to the Sunshine State after Hurricane Maria, or
high school students like the Parkland gun control activists turning 18
and registering to vote, any Democratic surge could be offset by the
migration of Republican-leaning seniors who like Florida’s balmy weather
and lack of income tax. If midterm elections typically play out as
judgments on the presidency, then Florida’s upcoming contests will be a
race between the usual laws of political gravity and the state’s
demographic destiny: Trump remains unpopular with younger voters, and
Democrats have already flipped four Florida legislative seats in
low-profile special elections this year, but the older voters who are
most likely to vote in the midterms are increasingly likely to move to
Florida and support the president.It makes sense that they’re coming to The Villages, because this
leisure-class Sun Belt oasis is a lot more pleasant than the dying
working-class Rust Belt towns that journalists usually visit on
Trump-voter safaris. It feels like a 40-square-mile cruise ship, or a
college campus without required classes. It has enough golf courses to
play a different one every week of the year, and more than 100 miles of
golf cart trails that keep traffic congestion to a minimum. It’s the
pickleball capital of America, appropriate considering that the
badminton-meets-tennis-ish paddle game has become America’s
fastest-growing sport. It has 3,000 clubs that keep 125,000 Villagers
busy doing everything from belly dancing to astrology, water aerobics to
water skiing, karaoke to quilting. It isn’t exactly luxurious, but it’s
comfortable with a median home price above $250,000; though a new POLITICO/AARP poll
finds plenty of concern elsewhere in Florida , the only real economic
anxiety for most Villagers is the state of their investment portfolios,
which are thriving in the Trump era. At a meeting of the Financial
Markets and Investment Club in early June, a speaker announced: “NASDAQ
just closed at a record high!”That meant more wealth on paper for club members like 80-year-old
Larry Harman, a former Chicago-area stockbroker who watches the markets
so closely he founded a separate club devoted to options trading. But
while Harman voted for Trump, and says he gladly would again, his
investment gains are not the reason: “I keep telling people: Come on,
Trump has nothing to do with your portfolio.” Harman, a former Marine,
is much more excited about Trump’s crusade against the National Football
League. “Players taking a knee, that’s bullshit!” Harman told me. “I’m
with the president 100 percent: Throw your hand over your heart and
respect our flag.”
All of the Boomer assholes in that article will be voting. Doesn’t matter how ignorant or racist they are.
Why should they get to decide the future of this country?
If reading this makes you want to fly over there and deck them…
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