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60% of people under 30 didn't vote during the last election, the majority of them support the Democrats.
"We can't do anything to improve things at home, let's move somewhere else."
Fuck off, other countries aren't your consolation prize, fix your own shit.
Do you have a source that those people leaving are the ones that didn't vote? I would guess that people who consider a measure as drastic as leaving your home country, would vote above average.
Furthermore, I would expect that mainly well-educated people are leaving the US, simply because it's much easier to get a work permit elsewhere. And high education typically also correlates with higher participation in elections.
I didn't have much time right now to a deeper research on these stand points. So if I'm wrong, I'd highly appreciate any sources.
lol source is the OP’s article.
I left the US, and I vote. (Though voting absentee is super annoying)
Direct quote from the article:
Sorry but quotes from two random people are not a serious source to prove that non-voters are leaving the US or vice versa. That's what you call anecdotal evidence.
In the article's example they are, in other cases they might not be but they're still the people who have the most influence over other people their age who don't vote and they're the people who should get involved instead of abandoning ship if they believe the system doesn't work for them.
They absolutely still have the right to vote from abroad
I never said they are (in general, in the article they actually are), but they sure as hell have the power to push people their age to vote!
Yes, fix the shit by kicking out the triumvirate of policians, corporations and military altogether, not by voting for lesser evil and dealing with shame after legitizming brazen, out of touch geriatric fucks; hoping that just one more legal act will prevent business from torching the planet, manipulating prices, avoiding taxation, eliminating competition, trampling down consumer rights and exploiting workers; or that there might ever be a good war and a bad peace and gaslighting yourself that it's for a just cause and not spheres of influence and profits off the backs of countries treated like the disputed territories of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.