Similar improvements for Trump among younger voters were cited in CNN’s 2024 exit polling of more than 22,000 voters. In the last election, Biden beat Trump in this demographic by 23 points. This year, Harris’ lead over Trump among those aged 18 to 29 was 13 points, a 10-point dip in the key demographic.

  • @[email protected]
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    Yup and electing Trump will definitely make that better.

    What other options were there? Electing the “go on like this” candidate? Or protesting, getting ignored or vilified by the media and thrown in jail?

    In a world without options I can’t blame anyone for wanting to burn it all down.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 hours ago

      In a world without options I can’t blame anyone for wanting to burn it all down

      Maybe if they are 14. But FFS, an adult, thinking like that? Pure nihilistic bullshit and I don’t sympathize with it at all.

    • @[email protected]
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      So… you’re saying the options were ONLY:

      1. Vote Harris and go on like this have a chance at actual reform
      2. Vote Trump and burn it all down watch access and affordability evaporate

      What do you mean what other option is there? It was quite clear that Trump intends to abide by Project 2025, and what it spells out for the future of America’s education system is bleak. He had no intention of making it more affordable, and every intention of making it pay to play.

      Maybe he’ll fix the affordability aspect as a side-effect of his mass deportations, but that won’t matter all that much when the general public fails to qualify for tertiary schooling. That public-private education quality divide is just going to snowball and make higher education even more of an elitist activity.

    • wildncrazyguy138
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      Biden tried numerous times with loan forgiveness. It was the conservative judges that kept blocking it.

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        Loan forgiveness isn’t a solution. It’s something the immediately help, but it does nothing ti address the growing costs of the higher education that is needed for any sort of comfortable life.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 hours ago

          Not sure what you’re arguing here. Are you saying that Trump’s attempts to improve the education system are somehow better? And what exactly are those attempts?

          He plans to support increased privatization of education, reduce funding for public options, and gut the DoE. So limited oversight of educational standards at a time when our standings on the international education stage are slipping?

          It isn’t the best solution, sure, but I really hope you aren’t making the argument that because what Biden attempted was more of a bandaid fix we should roll the dice with the Trump University guy.

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            I’m saying that you can only piss on someone and call it rain for so long. Young voters onow that both parties are going to screw them over regardless, so they don’t want to vote. It’s turkeys voting on the side dishes at Thanksgiving.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Hey if you don’t want the status quo while slowly getting the progressives into office then hey that’s your guy’s choice here.

      I’m old enough to remember that the crazy train that is MAGA took over twenty plus years of my life to get to this end game, putting their money and efforts on the long game that’s won them whatever the fuck this is.

      But hey again, if you think that was your only choice, which it isn’t, that’s fine and you want to fascist it all the way down, cool just don’t fucking complain after this. Heck I might even throw in a little fuel on the fire myself.

        • rigatti
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          49 hours ago

          Are you not an American citizen? Or are you under 18?

          • @[email protected]
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            I’m not an American citizen. But the US military budget makes whatever the fuck you do in your country my problem, too.

            • rigatti
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              189 hours ago

              Weird that you would be here bothsidesing rather than recognizing that the party that was just elected will cause many more military issues all over the world. American politicians will probably never reduce the size of our military (too much lobbying influence), but the only path to doing that would be to put Democrats in and progressively push them to be more progressive.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        Hey if you don’t want the status quo while slowly getting the progressives into office then hey that’s your guy’s choice here.

        Why are you talking like this person is personally responsible for Trump winning? And what progressives? When the party platform is shifting to the right every election? Not saying electing Trump is the right answer but any solution that includes maintaining the status quo is failing or has already failed.

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      59 hours ago

      Even framing it as an active choice is wrong. People who become disillusioned with life and don’t feel like politics has answers for their problems just stop engaging and stop thinking about it as something important. It wasn’t an active choice, they just didn’t care.