12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote (laugh it up)

Nymag ^ | Oct 30, 2018

[SunkenCiv]

I found this one most interesting, also boosted my optimism for the longer term.

Reese | Age 23 | Hudson, Ohio | Has Never Voted | In my senior year in high school, I was probably borderline socialist. Though I don’t really think I understood what a socialist was. I was blatantly liberal and didn’t bother to check myself. My friend gave me The Prince, by Machiavelli. I read that, and it provided a certain nuance that I didn’t have. From there, I read more, and I realized that a lot of things I’d thought before were wrong. I got into Hellenism. I read Cicero, Livy.....(blah, blah, blah) ...

[Boogieman]

So to sum it up, “hug me or I’ll shoot you!”

[generally]

It makes you wonder who ties their shoes for them.

Some of them are obviously still living with parents and have absolutely zero idea of how the world works. Mom does everything for them. Spoon-fed babies who can’t survive on their own.

Very glad these incompetents don’t vote.

[HapaxLegamenon]

The funniest has to be the young woman who was so frustrated because there were no instruction for 1) how to make all the choices; 2) where to get a stamp to mail it 3) no instructions on how to get a ‘postmark’ 4) what a ‘postmark’ was 5) which post office was the right one to drop off ballot.

[hal ogen]

Nitwits on parade!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ronnie raygun]

They have no clue whats going on anyway

[susannah59]

Goodness, don’t tell her that! I hope she stays too discouraged to vote for the next 40 or 50 years!

I missed voting in that election by about 6 months. It was a great disappointment since I really wanted to vote for President Reagan.

I can still remember talking with one of my high school classmates about the candidates; we both were just a little too young to actually vote. I remember telling him how I liked what Reagan had to say. He said, “Oh, you’re conservative!” Still am, to this day.

The whole “women only voted for Trump because their husbands/boyfriends/some male in their lives told them to” is extremely offensive to me, in part because I was making up my own mind and making my own decisions even before I was old enough to vote.

I don’t recall having any particular difficulty in figuring out how to vote, either. Then again, I remember going with my parents to vote when I was preschool age.

[5th MEB]

Damn; made me laugh so hard I almost fell out of my chair!

[RedMonqey]

I had my Clinton sweatshirt on all day.

I had on my "special" clean underwear.

It's the REAL reason Trump won so I haven't changed them since.

(Somewhere an idiot liberal will read this and yell "Aha!)

Liberals have no sense of humour!

[RedMonqey]

Tim | Age 27 | Austin, Texas | Has Never Voted
I tried to register for the 2016 election, but it was beyond the deadline by the time I tried to do it. I hate mailing stuff; it gives me anxiety. I don’t remember seeing voter-registration drives, no. I’ve seen a lot more the past two years. I’m sure there must have been stuff. I just don’t remember it...

27 and NEVER voted?

My God! I registered as soon as I turned 18 in April and cast my ballot for Reagan and have voted in EVERY election since.

OK I admit I registered at a voter drive at the mall but had planned to go to the courthouse and sign up there.

But if you waited til you were 27 and still didn't understand the deadlines to register but failed to do so, you are too stupid to cast a vote(And you're definitely Democrat material)

Bring back the literacy tests... pronto!

[11th_VA]

I was on the way to boot camp shortly after turning 17 ... best years of my life ...

[RedMonqey]

I can still remember talking with one of my high school classmates about the candidates; we both were just a little too young to actually vote. I remember telling him how I liked what Reagan had to say. He said, “Oh, you’re conservative!” Still am, to this day.

HaHa, I can remember my discussions with my friends in the parking lot where we talked and smoked cigarettes.

His big argument was Reagan was going to get us in a war and cut student aid. My response was "Good we need to kick some Ayatollah's ass" and "So what?" I'm going to work through college like my parents did(Dad eventually joined the Army and went to Korea and Mom was one credit short to graduate, she got married)

Funny thing my friend dropped out and joined the Army and I later dropped out for a better job.

Another thing, if I was old enough in 76 I would have voted for "Jimmah Kartur" My solution to shootings back then was "don't ban guns, ban bullets"! Kids do stupid things. I outgrew my "radical liberal" stage REALLY quick!

[RedMonqey]

Reese | Age 23 | Hudson, Ohio | Has Never Voted ...I was probably borderline socialist....don’t really think I understood what a socialist was..blatantly liberal ..didn’t bother to check myself. ....in college, my field is American politics and political science. I prefer constitutional law and Alexander Hamilton.. ...There are things that I’m aware of where I’m certain I’m right. . I never felt certain enough to vote. But I’m a political-science student, and the talk of voting is really big in my circle of friends. In 2016, I almost did...

I am at a loss for words... this is the product of today's educational system. Thinks he's knows "constitutional law" yet will do(as a socialist or even liberal) to undermine EVERYTHING the Founding Fathers created.

Thank goodness he is too stupid to make his way to vote or even register.. SMDH

[oldvirginian]

Unfreakingbelievable!

Snowflakes can’t figure out how to mail a letter?!
Don’t know what a postmark is?!

I registered within days of turning 18 in 1972. Cast my first vote for Nixon (I was the black sheep of the family) in the 72 election. Haven’t looked back.

Growing up in the country I was taught that it was a duty to educate myself on the issues and the candidates then VOTE.

[5th MEB]

Why should that concern you?
The more of them that off themselves just leaves more air for the rest of us to breath.
I don’t advocate suicide (it’s a sin against GOD), but either cope or get out of the way, I don’t care how they do it, just so long as they do it.

[vannrox]

Ah. Wait until they have to start paying taxes. Heh Heh Heh.

[5th MEB]

American Civic Literacy Test; find it on line and take the full test.
I scored in the 99th percentile.

snicker, snicker

[RedMonqey]

I wanted to join the Army... not because I was super patriot... which I was but I wanted to get posted overseas. Being from a lower middle class family I knew there was little chance I’d adventure far a field so I thought, well my dad and uncles and a few cousins saw the world on the army ticket so I’d do the same. Of course they saw it through gun sights but I figured I’d still see exotic locals(”Join the Army see excotic lands....meet excotic people.... and kill them!” was a joke going around back then)

But Ma Nature saw fit to get me a chronic condition the military deemed unsuitable for long marches.. carrying lethal devices... in all kinds of pisspoor weather.. I thought then and more so now that men should join the armed forces and challenge themselves... builds character... learn about people from various parts of your own country and kick ass! (OK that last one was a bit of humour.. Sorry Pop!)
But I don’t believe in a peacetime daft.

[RedMonqey]

I took an “citizenship test” off an link from the Washington Examiner. Only missed one question due to missing an date of a Revolutionary War battle.

Of course I’m an old white male who have real teachers who were more interested in teaching me my lessons than eyeing me as a prospective “sex toy”

(Which was a good thing cuz they were some real old “blue haired battle axes”)