'I get why young people do not trust our government or our institutions. But the thing is, almost all of these events occurred because one side didn’t “Just Vote Harder,” while the other did,' writes Daniel Miller.
to mock the idea that voting can make a difference, sarcastically commenting that if they “Just Vote Harder” they can fix the seemingly insurmountable problems that our country faces.
The thing is, “Just Vote Harder” is exactly what young people, particularly progressives, need to do in the upcoming election to get the kind of change they long for on issues ranging from the climate to racial justice to reproductive rights. I can understand where this apathy comes from. Young people have only known an America beset by crisis, from the disastrous war in Iraq and the Great Recession to Donald Trump’s presidency and a pandemic that has claimed more than a million lives. Most recently, the Supreme Court, for the first time in its history, took away a fundamental right when it repealedSo, I get why young people do not trust our government or our institutions.
Imagine a world where more people voted Democrat in Florida in 2000. The margin in that state was only! Suffice it to say, the world would look a lot different today if Al Gore had been president instead of George W. Bush. Imagine a world where more people in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania— states that Trump won in 2016 by only
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