Anybody actively involved in the 2022 Election?

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What "apathy" are you talking about?

We're talking about how we feel about certain issues.....which is very pertinent to this election.

The context of apathy - people who decided not to vote!

Voter turnout tends to be favorable for the Democrats. As is the days following major elections, it's often noted that lower than needed youth-voter turnout yields defeat of Demcorats esp. in close-races.

I had scoured the Internet for ADs encoraging youth voters to get out and vote. The one AD I found didn't gain traction. The other 'get out and vote' AD (by 'The Lincoln Project') that gained traction (as 'get out the vote' ADs go) was meant to enocurage everybody to vote.

Go figure, youth voters always prove to be a dicey audience to reach.

I’m sure a lot of young ppl are sick of crazy bs politics and just tune it out.

I bet a lot of young people feel powerless as a voting block, too, considering that it’s well known that there are tons of boomer aged people and almost all of them turn out to vote, making the elder vote a lot more heavily weighted in determining the outcomes.

For those reasons I understand why a lot of young people just don’t bother voting. What’s the point when they don’t see a point?

But yeah, could do with some better marketing towards young people for sure.



I’ve probably skipped some elections in my life, especially civic ones, but for the most part I’ve made a point of voting in Provincial and Federal elections. It’s irritating voting in federal elections when the way things are carved up in Canada, voters in the East determine the outcome before voters in the West even cast their ballots. Also, we suffer from similar two party problems like the USA does. The closest third party has never won that I know of, and then smaller ones gain ground but don’t stand a statistical chance and end up just splitting the vote sooooo people don’t vote Green even if they want to because they want their vote to help determine the outcome between the big two or Maybe third party. Things tend to swing back and forth like a pendulum just as they do in the USA. Right now even many people who voted for liberal trudeau aren’t happy with his decisions and endless scandals involving his friends getting paid obscene sums for doing little to no work and I can foresee the next election swinging conservative with their new likely leader pierre something something - who talks a very good talk. All of this even though IMO we’d have better outcomes for working class Canadians by electing the NDP, perhaps with a Green coalition, than continuing to allow the whims of Ontario residents to flip-flop back and forth between the two major organized crime groups - liberals & conservatives - while not much of anything really truly changes.

I’ll still vote, but I can see why young people would rather go burn a j at the beach than get involved in politics.

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