Voting shouldn't be like buying rotten meat because it's on sale. Sick of folks saying I'll vote for so and so even if he was laid out on a stretcher, smoking a crack pipe and eating watermelon. If we have to do it, as you say, how do you convince young voters? Some of the same people showing love and appreciation for the youth being on the front lines, are also the same youth you've marginalized, abused, forgotten or ignored. I've even heard some blame the younger folk for bad orange being in office because they didn't vote. It was not. It didn't help.
What can we promise will change for those who are young with energy, fire, intensity, intelligence, courage that have created their own support systems without us? How do you convince potential voters who have had to address their own needs?
Current administration tactics between the buffoonery act, fine print and real quick says: local government is nothing. Sorcery for his folk. Sorcery on this process. Each city/state has its own needs. Many youth use state programs out of necessity. Draw the line locally to the candidates who will push for what directly affects their community and their WORK. Many of the youth are advocates. They need skills and training. They need the truth and structure, not your ego or God complex or biased adult view. You cannot come in acting as if you know them. Some are advocating for themselves and being killed with no support. How do we best advocate for the new activists?
There have always been grassroots organizations that fight for the common man with little to no resources. Always. What candidates will provide funding so that these self made organizations can serve and train more people? How will they ensure the constituents have physical, emotional and financial support? If they don't or won't, how do we, on each block, assess the needs ourselves? What can we do block by block? Give the youth something to work with. Seen not heard didn't work on us, why do we expect differently from them? How do we meet in the middle?
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