If you're 30+, the Republican party has changed in very material ways that you can remember within your voting lifetime. One could say the same about the Democratic party. Maybe it was always money first and not averse to war, but it seems like they used to both find ways to get things done that benefitted the middle class to some degree. Now, I'm not sure who of the majority either party represents, but they're our only choices and we have a lot of people (not to generalize, but mostly of a boomer demographic) that shows up to vote their party no matter what. I often wonder if they know their party from 30 years ago is different than their party today or not, and whether that matters, or if not voting for the other guys is more important. And not to pick on boomers, we also have my generation, which didn't show up to vote 20 years ago and still doesn't today. This about sums it up:
Oh definitely. At the most local level, we elected a state rep in his 20's. Because he was motivated enough to run and challenge a long term incumbent, and some younger folks got out and voted for him. He's done a really good job and is running for state senate now. I'm not saying it's always great to vote out the long term incumbent, but giving enough of a shit to get informed, decide, and go to the polls is huge. Definitely vote, and get informed as best you can.
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[ 11.2 ms ] story [ 126 ms ] thread9% of America chose Trump and Clinton to be our nominees, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/n...
Republican or Democrat, I guess apathy is still our #1 priority :)