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More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the New York Post:
As the staggering national student loan debt tally sits at an all-time high of $1.33 trillion, according to the Department of Education, many millennials say they would go to extreme lengths to wipe their slate clean. According to a new survey from Credible, a personal finance website, 50 percent of all respondents (ages 18-34) said they would give up their right to vote during the next two presidential elections in order to never have to make another loan payment again.
Yet only 44% said they'd be willing to give up Uber and Lyft -- and only 13% said they'd be willing to give up texting.
Yet only 44% said they'd be willing to give up Uber and Lyft -- and only 13% said they'd be willing to give up texting.
It is merely compounding the problem. There is the electoral college, which means farmers and other rural folk tend to decide the election. Areas where knowledge spreads more slowly, and people tend to make decisions based on a candidate's professed faith or their own undereducated beliefs. Point to farmers in Montana or such voting for a wall in Mexico. Do people in Montana really have an impactful number of undocumented migrant workers lowering the market values for labor and thus anything associated with it? Or are they just suffering from propaganda?