The last several presidential elections had the highest voter turnouts in US history, including the highest turnout of youth voters in recorded US history. Our problem is not turnout, it’s education and information on actual policy and issues - as exit polling showed most people who voted for Trump had no political knowledge past whatever memes they saw on Facebook, and generally associated the price of groceries with whoever was in charge at the time, and just wanted to “try someone different.”
People voted for Trump because they didn’t know about or believe whatever people said about him, because they got an equal mixture of absurd headlines about both candidates and tuned both out or believed what validated their passing attitudes at the time.
Where we’re also floundering broadly is involvement in local state and city elections, as many of the congressmen and women who are supposed to represent us have ran with little or no opposition. This is again, an education and information issue, not “laziness.”
The last several presidential elections had the highest voter turnouts in US history, including the highest turnout of youth voters in recorded US history. Our problem is not turnout, it’s education and information on actual policy and issues - as exit polling showed most people who voted for Trump had no political knowledge past whatever memes they saw on Facebook, and generally associated the price of groceries with whoever was in charge at the time, and just wanted to “try someone different.”
People voted for Trump because they didn’t know about or believe whatever people said about him, because they got an equal mixture of absurd headlines about both candidates and tuned both out or believed what validated their passing attitudes at the time.
Where we’re also floundering broadly is involvement in local state and city elections, as many of the congressmen and women who are supposed to represent us have ran with little or no opposition. This is again, an education and information issue, not “laziness.”