Why young US voters are disillusioned with their presidential candidates | DW News 

When are YOU going to wake up and realize it’s by design and they don’t Give AF about average civilians who they’re supposed to be representing. They only care about Uber rich donors

Trust me, it's better than a 10 party system

exactly!

lol why? three reasons.

He is a smart man, 1. Ukraine is fighting your war right now vs one of your geopolitical rivals which is closely allied with China (your biggest geopolitical enemy) 2. You maintain presence and power in the region, which is a crucial region. 3. You gain better knowledge on your weapon effectiveness and thus know what to improve. 4. You are a good and reliable ally to Europe which gains you points in every aspect. 5. You are in fact not spending too much money on the grand scheme, you are mostly giving long term loan to Ukraine

Yes, we have the choice of a Vice President, in the event of The President's passing...

Biden is old, but the data shows he acomplished more than every president since FDR. Vote Biden or wake up with Trump. What are we even talking about?

Exactly. It reminds me of how the USSR looked before it collapse

Agreed..baffles me that both parties don't have individual representatives that are if 'normal' age, say 40-ies, 50-ies. For such a huge country it is really unbelievable.

@@ryandunevant7448 Dafuq man. They are old but the US has a democratic and working system. Why do you trashtalk it? Vote Biden or wake up with Trump. By data Biden has acomplished more than every president since FDR. What are we even talking about?

How is age even a valid argument. there are 2 big parties behind each of them that also have something to say. You are not electing a person. You are choosing the fate of your country, its laws, jurisdiction, and representation to the outside world. Age really is the least of your concerns.

Why? You’re going to be screwed either way? Neither party or its affiliates care about the average citizen. We all lose bc ppl keep fighting with each other. They rely on that to keep sticking it to you and then you mistakenly take your frustrations out on ppl that you should be aligning with.. (bc they’re getting screwed also) Hitting their pocket books causes them to lose power and returns it back to us

So, throw the puzzle in the trash!? Is that what you are suggesting!? 🤔

No, you don’t have to. You can write in someone else. Don’t let the system blackmail you into voting for an evil, even if it is the lesser one.

@@michaelyuan3382 Writing in someone else is effectively voting for no one. There are functionally only 2 candidates that have any chance of getting elected. I have seen good candidates in the primaries only to be the first ones out. Lots of people vote for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but that doesn't mean that they will ever get elected or even have more than 1% or 2% of the total vote. "Sometimes you have to choose between the lesser of two weevils."

Its simply in his mind the three biggest popular political issues of young people, not what the only thing they care about.

These are important issues, though, and being concerned about them makes a lot more sense than people on the right being rabidly anti-trans and obsessed with drag queens or thinking the solution to all our problems is more jesus in the government. At least the kids aren't regressive in their beliefs. At any given point throughout history, conservative ideas are at best a century out of touch.

Maybe Gaza for young people is a catchword for criticising US hegemonial thinking and ignoring International law - that would be quite understandable !

bonger people

Precisely why aid packages to Israel and Ukraine are made of munitions and armaments... these a holes have learned that war boosts the American economy.

Yes, the system is also built for Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, so your parents were forced to participate in Capitalism on otherwise sacred holidays. We were all lied to, including your parents...

Right, Bad and Worse !

Congress is a balance on presidential power. Liberal democracy is actually optimized for gridlock situations, where a lot of insititutions can actually stop anything.

@@gaborrajnai6213 So we vote every 2 years to balance the power of the President and we vote again every 4 years to balance the power of the President and then we also vote every 4 years to balance the power of Congress? Is the point of voting for our Government so that it does nothing?

Actually yes, you know its hard to grow up a real tyrant in that kind of system.

@@gaborrajnai6213 Then there is no purpose for the government to exist. It is a sinkhole wasting money just to do nothing

Well, not nothing, but extreme consensus in the society is needed to further any goal. Thatswhy it took the US 200 years to effectively get rid of slavery.

Surely your favorite bedtime story was *Captain Obvious* ! 🙄

And they are given a choice between a conservative right and a conservative far right candidate... Not surprised they don't see themselves being represented.

Yet, so-called swing states with dynamic viewpoints decide every Presidential election... don't be so naive. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♂️

Don't be so sure. Biden is not doing what's neccessary with Netanyahu and Israel. He even admitted it during the SOTU on a hot mic...

Nah. Go Trump

Whats the logic behind giving taxpayer money to the literally richest people in the world? Arent they have enough to do what they wish to do?

What you say is election campaign wording. The truth is that Presidents actually serve only their election donors ... military industrial complex, AIPAC, ... thinking people know that

yes but he was more in line with young values. its not just age, but values aswell.

@@wyoming9000 true, Bernie never matured past the teen years. Now a millionaire socialist, lol

@@nuqwestr you say that as if theres some inherent contradiction in being a socialist and a millionaire? theres a biiiig difference between being a millionaire and a billionaire, you can become a millionaire by working as a doctor or a lawyer, whereas to become a billionaire you have to profit off of others exploitation. and bernie isnt even a socialist but a social democrat.

@@wyoming9000 bernie as a millionaire is a weak argument, I grant that.

The socialist platform is literally the youngest inside the Democrats, including Bernie. And he is a socialist, not a communist.

Bleh 🤮 what for? Useless at best

Lol

They won’t the are bias to political/corporate masters

@@ryandunevant7448 or the heroin junkie (rfk) simply isn't viable

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@@ryandunevant7448 Oh, dear. I am not going to bother trying to figure out what your emoji means. I will be so glad when this emoji fad fades away. You would do well to make the effort to be articulate. A single-emoji reply does not reveal a person of intellect. If you have something interesting to say (and it appears that you do not), write it out for all to read.

When Biden will do gestures towards his votingbase he will get their vote. Which includes a realistic stance on the Israel issue.

@@gaborrajnai6213 There are some people whose vote against Biden will be determined by the Gaza crisis, but they are a tiny minority. People vote based how they perceive domestic conditions, not on foreign policy. In any case, if that minority does not vote for Biden, they are de facto voting for Trump whose Israel policy is cruelly, moronically anti-Palestinian. Go figure. As for domestic policy, Biden has issued executive orders (and general policies) hugely benefitting the young, executive orders which also establish precedents for State Legislatures. The Biden administration, alas, is just not very good at boasting of its accomplishments. For a savvy analysis of Biden/Gaza, I urge you to check out the Beau of the Fifth Column channel. Beau is a clear-eyed realist (and a decent man of disciplined integrity). He is anguished about the appalling suffering in Gaza, but he is a realist about the amoral realpolitik of foreign policy. "Countries don't have friends, they have interests." Wishing it were different ain't gonna make it so. "Foreign policy doesn't spin on a dime. Changing it is a slow, laborious process." Just think how long it took for the US to withdraw from the civil war in Vietnam. I humbly bow to Beau's far more sophisticated, knowledgeable understanding of US engagement with Israel/Palestine. Beau is a heavyweight (but accessible, down to earth) analyst. Me, I'm ignorant.

Alot of good? Like what?

Please tell me that's sarcastic. Noone could be this dense

Ah yes, diverse political views of exactly two people. The diversity is huge, bigly, the biggest, we are so democratic, not even the democrats can do better.

Oh, yeah thatswhy half of the right is crying about their rights to free speech.

Older generations tend to be more conservative in views. Doesn't make them wiser. Higher educated individuals tend to vote for more liberal and social policies

@@stewlew8449 ''Doesn't make them wiser'' - yeah it does... ''Higher educated individuals tend to vote for more liberal and social policies'' correct, they dont bear the consequences... and luckily when they grow up they come round in the end and realise their mistake.

@@stewlew8449 What about older generation with higher education? That group do exist.

@@Tabula_Rasa1 which way do you think they vote?

Nobody who have something called wisdom votes for Trump...

They don't want a choice between bad and worse. Quite understandable...

Bernie is older than both Trump and Biden LOL

*Yo'Mama*

agreed.

Like not supporting genocide.

If that's how you see young people you may have lost the plot too.

​@@mr.sushi2221Trump literally is the guy who acnowleged eastern Jerusalem as pars of israeli-Jerusalem and the capital of Israel, without so called Palestine. I am fully against Hamas and the two state solution, but you have to be sane enough to know, that if you put the Palestine-issue over everything else and don't vote for Biden, you will wake up with Trump. Think he is going to solve this conflict in 24 hours?

Most young people want to fix our country and not worry about anyone else. The whole thing with Gaza is about not supporting/aiding barbarism. We don’t want any more wars or to fight in any old man’s wars.

@@ryandunevant7448 Vote Boden or wake up with Trump. Is Palestine worth the chaos in America and the world? No! Hard but true.

You are ridiculous. So a 20 year old working full time and paying taxes should not be able to vote? Crazy!

Fine as long as we can cap voting age at 55 to get rid of the senile get off my lawn vote 😂... I'm more concerned with Alzheimer's vote than a 21 year old voting.

And old people should lose voting rights as they develop dementia and critical thinking skills

Agreed. Also, these 24 year old children should be given their own homes and free money

@@Matthew-rp3jf Yes, just like old people who lose the right to drive a car. But no way to test for it. The difference is brain maturity is pretty uniform to the age of 25, while dementia is more of a variable, and there is new science which may prevent the onset of dementia. Really can't equate the two, but a good point.