politics

I tried to meme her but everyone thought I was trolling

The kind whose parents watch media that demonizes the Democrats.

This is 90% just a proxy for how their parents will vote.

Its only a very small portion of kids that age who are going to have substantially different views than their parents (not that they don't exist!)

The kind who never knew the world before he got into politics, and the kind who think the things he says are funny memes and want to sow chaos in a poll that doesn't have any real weight. If they had to be serious, more of them probably would be, but it's not unusual for kids to goof off and be chaotic when they know their voice doesn't have direct influence on anything that matters.

The people who voted for him in 2016 are raising kids. Once might even call it grooming but that's a silly word.

Unfortunately kids parrot the hate and political leanings of their parents until they grow older at least

This country is failing a lot of people. The only ones who really benefit are the rich.

Really shows where the problem lies. Indoctrination. Results not much different than the national poll.

The worst part is knowing that they're (most likely) just listening to the loudest voter in their household even if other opinions manage to exist in their family.

I only remembered my dad talking about Bush or scoffing at this or that "donkey" thing so I thought it was Bush and the elephants I was supposed to like. I know I would have voted as such in something like this because I didn't know any better at 6-8 years old, although I'm not finding the kids' age ranges in this mock election. Anyway, I still didn't know any better in junior high, I remember voting for Bush again in a 7th grade social studies poll on the 2004 elections. I recall the teacher saying even the results amongst one class were usually a pretty accurate reflection of the actual election results, right down to the goob who voted for Nader.

It took me going to college in the purplest damn section of a pretty red state for me to come to terms with what I actually believed and felt about people and politics. Further education was definitely key, and intertwined with that, it opened me up to people. Just talking to people in an environment where you're all on essentially the same operating level day to day is huge.

My dad kept doing his thing in the small town where everyone knew everyone and somehow managed to sleep with everyone, too. He turned into a Trumper. I did my thing and I admit, it took me a lot of those four years of working on projects and getting pissed about loans together but really just enjoying life with a modestly diverse, pretty tolerant student body (still a lot of white raised-as-protestant types) to undo the damage of a conservatively skewed and Catholic childhood. But I can tell you that by 2014 I was annoyed at myself for not caring about the 2012 election, this first time I could vote. And you can guess I most certainly never even considered supporting Trump or any of the terrible things he represents when he suddenly-to-me showed up.

Would it make any reasonable sense for my dad to go to college at his age? No, probably not. But how do we get people to "simply" live around and be exposed to more people with relatively little prejudice in social status?

Do we just ... Idk where I'm going with this I got high but wait just a tick here did I just reason myself into communism ^fuckity^^shit^

It’s mostly kids mimicking their parents feelings. Which is not the MOST sad. But still not great.

Had some people in a duel enrollment (collage level) class tell me last Friday that they'd vote for trump because "he's an asshole but I like his policies"

Nah, it's just kids parroting their parents views. I did the same thing as a child, and I'm about as far left as you can get as an adult.

It wouldn't be an electoral college in this case. It would be an electoral... middle school?

It's also why they're opposed to lead pipe removal. They'll never admit it, but lead poisoning is a major contributor to why people are stupid enough to vote for them.

Kids Choice Army!

Losing candidate gets slimed.

Yeah, those two are not good ones to get wrong.

In 2016 the kids favored Clinton by 17 points (36% Trump to 53% Clinton)