One explanation for the 2024 election’s biggest mystery, a theory for why Biden is struggling with young and nonwhite voters
One explanation for the 2024 election’s biggest mystery, a theory for why Biden is struggling with young and nonwhite voters
A theory for why Biden is struggling with young and nonwhite voters.
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supporting genocide doesn't help in getting reelected.
Straight from the article:
It’s plausible that Biden’s support for Israel’s obliteration of Gaza would be especially outrageous to young and/or nonwhite Americans, who are exceptionally likely to sympathize with Palestine. And the president’s foreign policy has surely alienated some Black, Hispanic, and Arab-American voters under 30. Yet the young and nonwhite voters who’ve been turning on Biden overwhelmingly identify as moderate or conservative, and are presently supporting Trump or RFK Jr., both of whom are even more ardently pro-Israel than the president. Further, a recent poll of 2,000 voters under 30 from the Harvard Institute of Politics found that only 2 percent considered the war in Gaza their top priority. It therefore seems doubtful that Biden’s complicity in Gaza's devastation fully explains his problem with these traditionally Democratic constituencies.
Inflation is currently at a reasonable level as compared to last year, but quality of life per dollar is still way the fuck down. The "economy" is good but that doesn't help the average person on the street which is absolutely being felt more by younger folks with lower paying jobs.
Issue number one is holding companies accountable. But even if that were to happen it's not going to bring down the prices and let people afford to live between now and November.
The time to fix this issue was two years ago when companies were crying about production costs and posting record profits. Instead people are waiting on wages at the bottom to rise to meet their new financial obligations and it's just not happening for the rank and file American.
Top priority is always going to be things closer to home like housing and economic security, climate action, etc. The conservative state media machine and foreign "troll" farms they (along with Putin, Israel, etc) finance never stopped after winning 2016. Cambridge Analytica just evolved into multiple, more advanced, spin-offs.
My theory is that the younger gens are completely and entirely disenfranchised. Regardless of Trump being logically, objectively, worse... They see the non-stop corruption and collusion between politicians, corporations, and the judicial system; the enshittification and monopolization of everything. They don't care about "the economy" when they have little hope of housing or economic security regardless. They don't care about "the most significant climate action ever" when it's decades too late, and they're still likely to experience climate and ecological collapse.
Everyone has a limit. There's only so many times you'll go through chemo before you tell the doctors to get fucked and let the cancer run its course.
That's more or less what the article said.