While I share the frustration of the youngest voters re the sure state of global warming, healthcare, income inequality, reproductive rights, etc, they consistently fail to turn out the vote in election after election. Even in 2020, one of the highest youth turnouts in modern history, only 50% of young people voted. Political priorities are determined by those who show up. We'll never do better than a craven Manchin in WV, but we could win the House and increase the Senate majority, if 90% of the youth vote actually votes. It's easy to witness the corruption of Manchin and Sinema, and give in to cynicism, but the point is to make both senators irrelevant. We cannot count on Democratic leadership to do so...we must vote in people who can both lead and message. On another note, I find it interesting that a sizable majority of the country lacks the maturity to comply with public health mandates for 18 months to combat a global pandemic. The pandemic will eventually burn down to endemic heights. But, how exactly will these immature beings adapt to a permanent new normal of climate change where there is no 'light at the end of the tunnel', where fire, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes become weekly events?
Joe Manchin's Truly Brutal Ransom Note
Joe Manchin didn’t give us Line 3. Joe Biden did. And I’ll never forgive him for that.
Is there suppose to be a link to Juan Parras and his family’s work?
While I share the frustration of the youngest voters re the sure state of global warming, healthcare, income inequality, reproductive rights, etc, they consistently fail to turn out the vote in election after election. Even in 2020, one of the highest youth turnouts in modern history, only 50% of young people voted. Political priorities are determined by those who show up. We'll never do better than a craven Manchin in WV, but we could win the House and increase the Senate majority, if 90% of the youth vote actually votes. It's easy to witness the corruption of Manchin and Sinema, and give in to cynicism, but the point is to make both senators irrelevant. We cannot count on Democratic leadership to do so...we must vote in people who can both lead and message. On another note, I find it interesting that a sizable majority of the country lacks the maturity to comply with public health mandates for 18 months to combat a global pandemic. The pandemic will eventually burn down to endemic heights. But, how exactly will these immature beings adapt to a permanent new normal of climate change where there is no 'light at the end of the tunnel', where fire, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes become weekly events?