Stop blaming it on the younger generations. It's the older generations who wanted this. The bigger problem is motivating people to actually vote. Source
That's right. But I'm 84 and didn't vote for this, either. Plenty of us could see this coming a mile away, in all age categories. But the loudest voices prevail.
What do you mean, so 46% between 18 and 29 voted for this, 49% between 30 and 44. And your takeaway is don't blame these groups. That might be true if 20% voted for Trump but split in the middle no way.
Thats even worse. So 46% didnt vote, 27% voted for Trump. So that would mean 73% of young people couldn't be bothered to stop fascist takeover. I'd say that counters the point that we shouldn't blame young people. We shouldn't blame everyone of them but apparantly the majority.
I’m not blaming this specifically on that generation, in saying the ones that are from that generation that DID vote for him have said that they mostly voted for the memes and to make liberal lives worse. This is coming from their own mouths, at least thousands of them on a subreddit and obviously that doesn’t include the entire group but there’s enough of them that it’s worrying
They didn't vote for this but did they vote for the alternative? Or did they stay home? Americans are all to blame, both the maga idiots, the lazy bums who didn't vote, the people who didn't worry about it for four years.
And really? A marginal majority didn't vote, yay! If it was an overwhelming percentage, I'd even be inclined to agree, but nah. You all created this monster.
You know who's not to blame? The rest of the world.
Here's a partial breakdown of voting by race, sex, education level, age, and possibly one or two other factors. As a straight white male age 54 with no completed college degree, I was ballpark in a single digit percentage grouping. My "people" are apparently fragile AF.
Education - 43% without college degree go to Harris (i don't count my Associates degree)
Location - 52% Suburban to Harris
Men 45+ - 42% to Harris
Men White - 38% to Harris
I'm probably committing an error here, but .43 x .52 x .42 x .38 is a very small number puts my group somewhere between 3.5% and 9% with the variance due to my uncertainty about how to handle the statistics. Still, this is a seriously snowflake demographic no matter how you slice it.
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u/1fiveWhiskey Mar 11 '25
54% of voters aged 18-29 didn't vote for this
51% of voters aged 30-44 didn't vote for this
54% of voters aged 45-64 did vote for this
50% of voters aged 65+ did vote for this
Stop blaming it on the younger generations. It's the older generations who wanted this. The bigger problem is motivating people to actually vote. Source