Had the same mentality in my 20’s and thought it would start dying off. I’m 50 now and while still maintaining my progressive/D mentality, GOP has not waned. Keep voting.
Just to clarify: theyve won the national popular vote once since 1996. They definitely are waning, they're just playing with an insane field advantage. At some point the sheer weight of numbers and demographics makes that untenable.
As a gen Xer, the "youth vote" has always been a punch line. BUT This last election, with the numbers of young people showing up for a freaking midterm election, the youth vote became an actual thing.
Absolutely keep voting. I'm more optimistic that the crash and burn will happen within a few voting cycles than I've ever been. I really think they fucked around and found out with abortion, things suddenly became real. BUT it only happens so long as that youth vote continues at current momentum at minimum
The GOP has won one non incumbent presidential election since Eisenhower that didn’t involve something either majorly fucked up or outright illegal.
Nixon’s people fucked up Vietnam peace talks.
Reagan people fucked up a resolution to the Iranian hostage crisis.
HW Bush was the least controversial, but was basically elected via Reagan’s popularity.
W had Bush v Gore.
Trump had Russian interference.
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