General Discussion

and all the posts proclaiming grandpa and grandma will just move in with Gen Z have missed it even worse.

Gen Z is graduating with massive college debt.

They are graduating and then are finding themselves in a job market where there are not entry level jobs. It sucks going to school and getting a computer science degree and then discovering AI and H1Bs are making it to where companies do not want to hire entry level programmers.

They are graduating and cannot afford housing, not to rent and certainly not to buy a house. Young people can't even begin to think about having children of their own because it's too damn expensive.

They want the OPTION of all those things. They want a job that pays well, they want a nice house, they want to be able to have kids if they want to and not have to pay their entire salary in childcare, and none of those things are affordable.

And neither party has done a damn thing to make those things happen.

And we can point fingers and say "it's all the republicans. All their fault."

Who cares? The end result is that both parties have traded back control of the White House for years, and this is the end result. Things suck for young people. And they continue to get worse. So what is the answer? Whoever is going to lead this thing in 2028 is going to have to address this. And they are going to have to have REAL answers, REAL solutions. Their answer cannot be "we are better than the other guy so you need to vote for us because the republicans are worse."

That answer didn't work in 2024 and it isn't going to work in 2028. Young people feel quite hopeless and they will definitely stay home and not vote at all if there is not someone with actual answer and an actual plan that will help THEM.

And "if you don't like this, guess you better look forward to granny moving in with you" isn't going to cut it. That's how we guarantee young people stay home. Again.