“Youth are not thinking about this as Biden vs. Trump,” says Elise Joshi, the executive director of Gen-Z for Change. “They’re thinking about whether their issues are being met or dealt with." Joshi and her fellow organizers say that Biden and the Democrats must earn their support. “They need to be worried that this generation is not going to show up,” she says.
Did they forget what the Trump years were like? Or were they all too young to pay attention and their parents never said anything? Maybe they just don’t have enough life experience to understand the importance relative to past elections. Not to mention that in the US we don’t teach them history in any useful, interesting way, so most new voters have insufficient context for what’s going on right now. Or maybe they’re the type that would prefer not to pull the trolley lever.
And yet…
Did they forget what the Trump years were like? Or were they all too young to pay attention and their parents never said anything? Maybe they just don’t have enough life experience to understand the importance relative to past elections. Not to mention that in the US we don’t teach them history in any useful, interesting way, so most new voters have insufficient context for what’s going on right now. Or maybe they’re the type that would prefer not to pull the trolley lever.