“Which is why I find it humorous that Democrats depend on them so much. OTOH, when I was in college, I did vote (absentee).”
I didn’t vote until I started making real good money out of college and got pizzed at the taxes they were taking out of it. I was a registered Dem at the time but I didn’t know any better. I quickly became aware from then on...:)
Political involvement goes up with the various stages of adulthood:
First paycheck
Marriage
Homebuying
Children
School-age Children
Teenage Children
The more skin you have invested in the game. The more involved you get in protecting it.