Environmental activist rally in mid-2019. PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN STANSALL | FOX7
Why the Election lies in youth voters’ hands By Elizabeth Bennett Editor
70+ year olds are not representing what we need.” With climate change becoming increasingly pressing and the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic still raging, this November election affects younger generations the most. In this election, millennial and Generation Z voters are roughly equal in size to the Baby Boomer and Pre-Baby Boomer generations, making up 37% of eligible voters. Pew Research Center highlights that eligible voters under 30 heavily favored Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump--with 58% and 28% of the vote respectively, but the turnout of this age was a mere 46.1% of eligible voters. Even though this is a slight increase from the 2012 election, the success of
There is no denying that President Trump is a plague to our democracy and institutions. Oh and human lives. If you knew that Trump was going to take away your right to an abortion, would you vote? If you knew that Trump was going to strip away your right to remain on your parents’ healthcare longer, would you vote? We cannot let happen four more years of destruction of the Earth, protection of only the rich, and extinction of empathy and decency. “What Trump does now really affects the younger generations’ lives.
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