The root problem here is that nowhere near enough young people vote.
If they did, they'd still be able to sway the vote enough to cut spending on the elderly. But because they mostly don't vote, they're going to get screwed.
Frankly, they collectively deserve to get screwed. Inaction has consequences.
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Or they can just leave the country and the elderly left behind can blame themselves for voting stupidly.
Unfortunately most of the boomers are going to die thinking they were winners
They're definitely going to die :-)
Not only are younger people more mobile so it's easy to physically leave, for the US specifically young people would face a much lower exit (unrealized capital gains) tax when they do so.
Or can it be that people vote in the first place? What gives one man the right tell another how to live?
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The problems will not be solved by 'voting harder' or blaming younger generations. The underlying issues stem from a flawed system of democracy and statism.
Voting for what?
Voting is a scheme that makes people short term responsible for things their votes won't change anyways in order to excert power over others without their consent.
Pretty much sounds like fiat mindset.
Build your family, your community. Communicate and respect the limits/consent of each other. This will bring humanity so much further than any vote for the lesser evil ever could.
"Democracy" sounds nice on the surface. But only if you don't take inherent violence/tyranny of the enabled into account.
Voter turnout for the 18-25 demographic was its highest in 50 years in 2020. Still not close to what the turn out is for the 65+ demographic though. There are about 50 million in that 65+ group, so I'm not sure if turnout is the main issue here given the population sizes and the popularity of the program across all those demographics.
I think as Lyn put it, it is a marketing issue. I don't think people know enough about how the program works to be able to vote accordingly. It probably wouldn't be nearly as popular of a program otherwise.
The idea we can cut any sort of government spending through voting is laughable. In fact, the idea you can change anything by voting also is laughable.
If they can just vote harder, all to problems are gonna be fixed for sure!
I don't remember the last time voting fixed anything
They were screwed before they were born and you want them to participate in it. They’re the ones that will be cutting throats - as they’re the ones who won’t have anything left to lose.
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