Meet the young people mobilizing Gen-Z ahead of the 2024 election
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2023
- “Once you look back through history, it’s always been young people at the forefront of every movement, making the difference. And today is no different.”
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Gen-Z and Millennials are often typecast as apathetic generations, likely to bow out of the political process due to disinterest in an increasingly partisan and frustrating landscape.
But how true is this stereotype? Young people have been at the forefront of nearly every political movement in history, and getting them to show up to defend democracy in the 2024 election is crucial.
Organizations like Rise and Forward Montana (part of the Alliance For Youth Organizing network) are building youth civic engagement and political power to help make a big change this next election cycle by registering voters and fighting voter suppression. With big stake issues like environmental justice, income inequality, racial justice, and the future of our democracy on the line, these power building groups are ensuring that the younger generation’s voices are heard.
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We shouldn't choose sides, we should create our side and force the candidates to come to it, to try and attract our votes.
Not the other way around
bravo
Very true. That would be nice. But like most big issues in this country solution is/seems unassailable.
What does environmental justice and reproductive justice mean? Honest question.
Environmental justice means that race or income is not a predictor for disproportionate exposure to things like pollution or the consequences of climate change.
@@katieakin9397you didn't answer the question
What they mean by environmental justice is legislation for the same reasons that protestors are blocking the LA highway for this “green new deal” but what they don’t realize is; the “green new deal” is just a move by Biden to fulfill all the promises he made to China and was paid millions of dollars for it, secondly, the reproductive justice means they want to be allowed to kill babies in the womb and some people even want newborns murdered but what they don’t realize is: abortions tend to be more prevalent amount low income people, the poorest neighborhoods tent to be mostly minorities, i.e. people at the top and behind the scenes are using people’s emotional distress about voting for prochoice as a way to commit genocide right in front of our eyes.
@@meadpro, did that answer the question?…..
@@meadpro Bunch of verbosity thrown around.
woah (came from youtube notifications set to all for Freethink)
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When you are younger, poorer and in college, voters tend to be liberal. Once jaded in the world, as we get older money starts to really matter and go conservative.
Literally, voting liberal doesn't help at this time
That´s a big assumption
Yes vote blue. ❤ Joe Biden
I was raised as a Democrat and at 57 still am...I am not jaded and will always fight for social justice. Some ppl don't change their ideals and morals as they age. I have a 93 yrs old aunt who is STILL a Liberal so don't paint all "older individuals" with the same broad stroke. You are misinformed
@@francineshannon3078 yes!!! I agreed. Just out of curiosity sir. With all these conflicts that has been going on. What’s it like living threw war? And thank you for your service 👍 yes! Joe Biden!!
Telling people to go vote is useless if they’re not educated in political issues. That just adds to the issues we face regardless of affiliation.
🤦♂
Im an older person in my 50s , my experience talking to my children and their friends is the young people today are woefully under educated in civics and government , they also have been wrongly taught a lot of history, its hard to make a educated decisions when you lack a full understanding of the system and the constitution as a whole
I rarely give dislikes, because I just ignore things that I don't agree with, but since this channel means a lot to me and I always keep on looking for new content. Knowing that, I felt very bad seeing political content in here because your production used and I hope will be apolitical and focused on quality content on science and technology. Today I gave you a dislike, and I hope you will take that as a warning because I don't want to lose you on the void.
Absolutely,this channel is supposed to inspire us, give us hope and solutions for the world's problems. most of the time current politics are filled with the opposite. Its a shame that even here one must succumb to that.
There is an illusion that mass youth movements will change things to the better. The Red Guards of Mao beg to differ.
If you are in college, it's also often assumed that you are, well, being educated to think logically. Some (not all) STEM students are, indeed.
It's not enough to be passionate/jaded/desperate/etc. And sometimes it hurts more than helps.
Yes. And the formula is simple. Most of them actually are too stupid, and being stupid makes it temendously easy into getting duped into serving evil.
Those who know how to pull their strings are their masters.
And I have to admit their masters seem pretty good at what they do.
Youth activism and the votes of young people are the single best hope for change for the future. For democracy, for our nation, for climate, for the world.
here before the 1 million subscribers
edit: ahh noo they achieved it while i was typing, anyway congratz!
Hey thanks so much! We appreciate you! ❤️
this channel is faking impresions/subs.. the views and comments dont add up.
Nobody saying lobbying 😞💔
You should look in to a rep called Matt Gaetz
I'd vote to make a maximum age in all Government positions of 65
You going to say that when you're 65?
minimum 30.
Same I'm Gen Z. I love him since he was first run President. I give him another chance.
I sincerely hope that the majority Gen Z will never vote for anything .... ever!
It's a good way to ensure that older Generations basically monopolize the vote.
cry boomer
Right On.
Doom
Yeah, vote for more people who look like yourselves. Screw policy or anything, most important part is the book‘s cover 🤦♂️
Vote for Joe Biden ❤
Well, voting for people who dont look like ourselves have gotten us here so might as well take the chance on this one.
@@deepmalyadas6585 more war!
@@deepmalyadas6585what are you talking about
How is it voting for people like you when a white cis male like myself is eager to vote for black and brown female and transgender faces? Literally the opposite of what you say. I’m voting for policies that support diverse representation.
The best advise i could give a younger voter. Would be to read between the lines and don't get caught up in the 2 party system. There's to much miss information online so do your research in several different ways. Americans we most definitely need our political system overhauled.
hopefully they dont shatter traditional society
I thought this was supposed to be an apolitical channel 🙄
Awesome you go guys
Saw the title in my feed. Can’t help thinking, well, this channel looks at issues all over the world. So whose 2024 election are you talking about? US? UK? Botswana? Canada? India? Need better labelling.
No one cares about any other country besides the US.
The problems we face, we commonly want to answer with more legislature. As we continue to decide that we need more governance and authority in the country, the more power the government will have to govern us. If we make hate speech a crime, criticism will be opened up to criminalization. If we decide the property rights of a woman triumph over the property rights of a child, we may decide also that the needs of the government take place over our youth. Then, the government will require more doctors when implementing government-funded healthcare, and so people will be forced to become doctors. At that point, the government should be the deciding force in what careers people play, since they are already deciding who should be a doctor. Just like how we should have free college, since we already have free primary schooling.
Slippery slope is a logical fallacy. Just because you see the potential for these things doesn't mean they will happen. You can use that flawed logic for both sides of any similar issue.
@@NSA-admin Just because the ski slope is covered in ice, and we're wearing skis, doesn't mean we'll slip to the bottom either.
The problem with logical fallacies is that they are sometimes true, and their inverse are just as fallacious. If I jump out of a plane - then it's a near guarantee I am going to fall. If I'm on a slippery slope, then there's a good chance of me slipping down the slope. Likewise, even without a slope, we may still slip on nothing and fall flat on our face.
If you would prefer a better argument, then I'll make an appeal to history - Nazi Germany had many economic problems, and believed the Jewish people to be the cause. So who carried out the holocaust? The government, or the people? What about the holodomor - the government, or the people?
The alternative to my questions would be to imply some third group, or both groups, carried out both atrocities. Whilst the latter would *technically* be true, it's trying to leverage black & white and Middle Ground fallacies a bit too much. Otherwise, we can say cancer isn't caused solely by smoking, and ergo we shouldn't put the blame on smoking.
Sorry, was I getting wordy there?
In summary, fallacy fallacy. I supposed that if the government grows, the government would try to grow more. You did nothing to undermine my claim, because fallacies, and by extension fallacious logic, is sometimes correct.
They want a totalitarian state by the sounds of this video.
Love this!
Thanks, DNC
As gen z people unusually underestimate us and its horrible, these people think everyone of us, are lazy.
No one underestimates Gen Z's level of ego and utter ignorance.
OK cool but what do you stand for which issues do you stand for. The vote is good, but you Gotta know what you’re standing for nothing is on your website or outside of free college.
Please, don't vote. Stay home. While you have one.
everyone has a right to vote
we a not a ng. dislikes!!
No
Vote the Democrats out of office. It's been a disaster.
bush was a disaster
Hunger Games
Christ. These people are allowed to vote, terrifying.
As a young person myself I’m annoyed People my age follow the herd mentality when as an individual know nothing about the political subjects they are blindly following.
This video is straight up liberal propaganda.
boomers
You have to lobby! You have to get on the floor of the Congress and fight for your life. Because if Trump is elected, it's the end of democracy. No joke. Fr
Trump 2024!
All people should vote. The only problem with new and young people voting is that they tend to vote democrat/liberal a lot, mostly because of the student loan debt forgiveness that Joe Biden is saying. I believe that votes should be over 25 years of age
As a young person, stop saying (Young people) as a whole. I don’t follow the herd mentality of brainwashed political views.
This video is propaganda.