Why don't millennials vote in the numbers they represent?

[zenabby]

39. Something about the age war

is bothering me.. In Brexit as well as here, the younger generation (millennials) seem to think that older people who don't think their way are stupid, are going to die soon and are deciding for younger generation. I am against Brexit, but the younger generation don't realize the older people were younger too, and they have exactly the same right to vote and have their voices heard as much as the millennials. The older votes don't weigh less and it shouldn't. They have earned the right to vote. On Bill Maher yesterday, there was this 16 year old who said everyone was "crushing their voices" or something like that. Hey, you are not special because you are younger. You are not smarter or better. You may be the future, but I am the present. I've lived a bit longer, seen a bit more than you and am using my sane judgement. If you want your voices to be heard, then please go out and vote. Don't disparage the older voters.

And yes, if you lose by 48-52, it's still losing. The biggest success of democracy is the peaceful transfer of power and acceptance of losing. Al Gore peacefully accepted it even though he won the popular vote. That's what makes us great. Obama won 51.1% to Romney's 47.2%. Yes, almost 48% of the voters voted for Romney. But we don't get to have a Romney platform or republican presidency. That's how it works. Sorry.