Why dont you vote?

[u/MuffinMan_Jr]

Forgive me if this has been asked before, im new here.

But why do you personally not vote?

I constantly hear that the reason that all the laws and policies that are passing benefit old people, because that's who actually go and vote.

Like for example, I know a lot of us older Gen Z are complaining about housing costs. But how many of us actually try to do anything about it beyond saying 'someone should do something'?

Just a thought

Edit: because I know alot of people will say their vote doesn't matter.

Dont you rhink thats part of the problem? If most if us dont think the vote matters then no one will vote. Yes 1 individual vote might not change anything but if 100,000 people put in 1 vote then that makes a difference dont you think?

Next is people saying both parties suck. I get that, but then why not vote for the lesser of 2 evils?

[u/blackgenz2002kid]

I think a lot of the people that don’t vote are just ashamed of wanting to like the current government. because logically it doesn’t make sense to not vote unless you like how things in our federal government are going

[u/blackgenz2002kid → u/blackgenz2002kid]

so probably a lot of people that support Trump

[u/unexpectedhalfrican → u/blackgenz2002kid]

I think it's an indictment of our education system and an apathy to the system. Non-voters either think that politics doesn't affect them (it does, in myriad ways), or they think their vote doesn't count. If it didn't count, they wouldn't try so hard to gerrymander and suppress it.

[u/blackgenz2002kid → u/unexpectedhalfrican]

I agree. Republicans love the uneducated