So, according to this USA TODAY article, some young voters are “willing to see a trump win, if ‘Dems ‘learn-a-lesson’ from it :
Young voters aren't warming up to Biden. They know it means Trump could win again.
Don’t these young voters have “Aunties” who they could turn to for some well-earned, lived experience and some hard-fought-for wisdom?
I’m one of those ‘women of a certain age’, but I still remember being young, idealistic and sometimes foolish too. Wanted everything “my way,” feeling that I was the smartest person in the room and these “old fogeys” needed to get out of the way and let us young, brilliant minds solve the world’s problems.
Fortunately for me (and for other young people at the time, like the late Representative and Civil Rights icon, John Lewis-who listened to A. Phillip Randolph’s advice during that era), we had “Aunties” and “Uncles”, older, wiser, seasoned warriors to disabuse us of our fanciful notions of our own superior grasps of the situation.
In my view, that is what’s needed today. So young people don’t like their choices of Presidential candidates. So they don’t like having to choose between the lesser of the two evils. So they’re “just not into Joe Biden,” (as one young person in the article was quoted as saying).
NEWS FLASH, darlings: I’m not crazy about the choices either (I wanted Elizabeth Warren in 2020 and if I had gooten what I wanted, she’d be running for re-election right now).
I don’t like choosing between the lesser of two either. Welcome to Black peoples’ world, guys. We have had to choose between the lesser of two evils in every Presidential election-except 2008 and 2012. And you know who was running in those two elections. (And also, too, Joe Biden is not evil. He’s a President who has to, as all Presidents have to, deal with a Congress and a Supreme Court. Learn your civics and learn how the three braches of our government work and stop thinking that Joe Biden or any other President has dictatorial power. That’s NOT the form of government we have here-), at least not yet!!
Oh, and you’re “just not into” President Biden? Good Lord, are you marrying the guy?!!?
So allow me to be a surrogate “Auntie” right here. You cannot allow your “feelings” to cloud your logic in this most important election. The future of our Democracy is at stake and the choice is as stark as it gets. Democracy vs fascism. Reproductive rights vs forced birthing and not being able to exercise our rights to make health decisions for ourselves. Working families- friendly policies vs policies that favor the 1%. The death and chaos of the first trump administration vs the professionalism and concrete accomplishments of the first Biden administration. Let’s help President Biden finish the job.
I could go on, but young people (and truth be told, some of y’all older ones too), please don’t make the mistake of letting your idealism override your common sense. Your vote counts! And if you want a chance to make YOUR vision of the world you want to see a reality, a non-vote or a vote for trump and the rethuglicans will cause that vision to not be realized.
Finally, to Black young people talking this nonsense: I have the last original poll tax receipt from 1965 that my late Mother had to pay just in order to vote. That was the LAW-just 60 short years ago. Fannie Lou Hamer, who was beaten almost to death just for registering Mississippians to vote, was my Mom’s contemporary. How DARE y’all even contemplate not voting!! Or even THINK about voting for that orange menace who called our ancestors’ countries “shithole countries?” What the HELL are y’all thinking!!?
Whew! I’d better end this now, because I feel an even worse rant coming on!! Just vote. When we vote, we win.
