But that's the easy part. I can get The Yoot riled up on Twitbook/Snapface/InstaChat without too much effort. The challenge is to take that energy, and get it into the fucking polling booth.
If you convince an older person of your argument, you've got their vote. Because old people vote. They vote in fair weather or foul, irrespective of whether they had a Fortnite match tonight, despite the fact they feel like shit, or whatever. Old people vote.
Young people, well, not so much. They're easy to convince. But getting them into the booth - that's the real work.
So, Kamala Harris. Appeal to the youth, the black vote, the woman vote. Yeah, it's a bit (a lot) tokenistic. Viva realpolitik! And then do the work to get those convinced-but-not-voting young voters to vote.
If you convince an older person of your argument, you've got their vote. Because old people vote. They vote in fair weather or foul, irrespective of whether they had a Fortnite match tonight, despite the fact they feel like shit, or whatever. Old people vote.
Young people, well, not so much. They're easy to convince. But getting them into the booth - that's the real work.
So, Kamala Harris. Appeal to the youth, the black vote, the woman vote. Yeah, it's a bit (a lot) tokenistic. Viva realpolitik! And then do the work to get those convinced-but-not-voting young voters to vote.