Fri
Oct 19 2018
10:27 am

From the Washington Post via the Houston Chronicle, Why people don't vote.

They talked with people in Clarksville, (Montgomery County) TN. "This county often has one of the lowest voting rates in the state - in a state that often has one of the lowest rates in the country, and in a country that has one of the lowest rates in the world, trailing most developed nations."

Here's what the non-voters said:

"I had no reason to," "I just don't feel I can change politics. Or, if I could help change it, I'd just be voting for someone whose solutions I don't agree with."

"I just think that it's a waste of my time," "Because whoever's going to get into office is not going to be influenced based on what my goals are or what my needs are or what the public's needs," he said. "It's going to be driven by capitalism, by big companies . . . Money controls."

"No one's ever pushed me to do it; no one's told me it was important," "They pound you about jobs. 'Get a job, get a job.' They didn't pound you about voting growing up. It doesn't feel relevant to me. It's not a big thing in my life."

"I'd be one person versus millions who probably have spent less time thinking about their vote than I have. "We make point-zero-infinite percentage difference. "

"The state mostly has been controlled by Republicans for years, so many right-leaning nonvoters say their chosen candidate doesn't need their support to win and left-leaners say their candidate will never win. Both sides ask the same question: Why bother?"

"Others said they don't care about politics - often citing its nastiness - and don't want to pick a side. And still others said they just can't get excited about the candidates on the ballot."

And there's more...

I just don't get it. Is this a Tennessee thing? They see what is happening around them and they think no action is better than some action? Sheesh.

jbr's picture

Why some millennials say voting is 'too inconvenient'

If you don't vote, you let it happen

Why some millennials say voting is 'too inconvenient'

tlc's picture

Must This Even Be Said?

At my advanced age, I don't have all that many years ahead of me during which to suffer the damage wrought by GOP under this administration. Many millennial voters, on the other hand, may find themselves facing a solid 60 years of this crap. If that's not reason enough for them to get off the couch and vote NOW, I dunno what is. Being short-sighted is being no-sighted, in this instance. Good golly almighty!

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