Working off what you’re asking, I’m curious to know if canvassers here have much luck with younger voters.
I’m in the older half of Millennials, and I don’t want anyone coming to my door for any reason - certainly not to discuss religion or politics. I know this is an anecdotal statement, but my friends feel similarly. We don’t even drop by each other out of the blue. At the very least, there is a text or call before anyone’s showing up at anyone’s door. If my doorbell rings, I know it’s a stranger.
My generation simply communicates differently. We all live inside our phones. Similarly, outside of die hard political junkies, I don’t really know of any of my peers who are watching cable news. I only ever hear “Did you see what Joe and Mika said?!” on this website.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit. That’s where we’re having political discussions, and even then it’s in highly self-curated environments (for example, on Reddit, I read and post in the r/YangForPresidentHQ subreddit, but you could not pay me to sift through the cesspool that is r/politics).
We craft our own experiences, and in its own way, our own realities. This probably isn’t a great thing.
I’m wondering if the older methods of political campaigning will last. If anyone has input, I’d be keen to hear it.
To answer, I’d prefer public financing of campaigns. We should craft a message geared to all ages. Right now, I think the party leadership and decision makers are a little too old. They don’t relate to the world my generation and Gen Z have grown up in. I always see, “You just want free stuff!” No, I want affordable education and health care. People who throw “free stuff” around as a pejorative really don’t understand how debt, depressed wages vs inflation, and increased costs of living have influenced our decision making. We get married later, start families later - if at all - stay home longer, are more nervous about the future, despair that anything will get done about climate before it’s too late. (I agree with Yang, it’s already too late. We’re going to spend the next century or two doing damage control and hoping not too many people die).
Anyway, this post got well away from me and well outside of your question. Apologies. Whatever politician who can grasp the world as it is and will be instead of leaning on the politics of the pst and how things have always been done will succeed. The world is changing rapidly. The robots are coming.
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
If I were to vote in a presidential
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