Time for Young People to Step up and VOTE in 2020

[McCamy Taylor]

Generally, young voters in our country our under represented in elections. This could be the year that all changes.

WASHINGTON — State officials nationwide are scrambling to adjust to stay-at-home and social distancing orders as they plan the 2020 voting calendar, and many experts warn that the pandemic threatens to be highly disruptive to this year's elections.

"There's a real possibility that people will be afraid to vote on Election Day and won't have alternatives," said Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Elections Commission who now heads the Campaign Legal Center in Washington. "That's just unacceptable for the world's leading democracy."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/election-chaos-coronavirus-fear-voting-could-keep-people-polls-n1174416

The obvious solution is mail in voting. However it is extremely unlikely that Moscow Mitch and Resident Trump will allow this. Their dream is an election in which urban voters stay home for fear of COVID 19, leaving only the deep rural voters.

I would like to propose another solution. Register and get out the vote of the nation's twenty-somethings. Yes, we know that a few people in that age group will have complications from COVID. However, their risks are much lower than that of their grandparents, the elderly who can generally be counted upon to vote in every election.

The future is now. This election will determine the fate of our country. We cannot survive another pandemic in which Trump fiddles while Jarrad Kushner sells off our supplies to the highest bidder. We cannot survive a world in which there are no jobs except for grocery store stockers. We cannot survive a world in which treatable disease will kill you because our health care system is stretched to the max.

If you are one of the lucky young healthy Americans with a long future before you, seize that future. Make it yours.

[SheltieLover]

1. Well stated!

Problem is, they are so uninformed, as is much of our country. I wish the average American would read just 10% of the info I inhale daily.