The Voting Rolls Are Swelling with Young People: What This Means

About 5 million Americans turn 18 each year, thus achieving the right to vote, where about 3.5 million, mostly old people, die.  This is a factor that significantly affects the demographics of the U.S. electorate.

While there are exceptions, older people tend to watch more right-wing garbage on television and vote Republican, where younger people tend to be strong on gun control (as suggested at left) and human rights of all kinds, and vote Democratic.

It is for this reason that, barring a miracle, the Republican party is going to have one hell of a hard time in the 2024 election.  Instead of developing a platform that has broad appeal, it has been squirting to the right with cruel, inane, and extremely unpopular ideas like homophobia and banning abortion.

The GOP has abandoned the concept of “live and let live,” and, in response, American voters are increasingly abandoning the GOP.

Examples are all around us, take Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his war against Disney as one of the most glaring.  Disney is an extremely highly regarded company that has been charming our children for nearly a century, while helping them learn the difference between right and wrong. By contrast, DeSantis, in his vicious attack against Disney has the approval rating of a clump of maggots on a dung heap.

I’d love to meet the people who are driving the Republicans into this miasma in which they currently find themselves.   In all honesty, I have to thank them.