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.

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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.

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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.

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        I didn’t have any choice in this, but I’m still gonna be fucked by it.

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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.

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              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.

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                Bill Clinton was working on reducing the size of the military. Then Bush decided to start a few wars.

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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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      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.

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      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.

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      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.