Young voter: "We’re voting for our lives. The Republicans must be fired"

[tommcintyre]

http://badgerherald.com/oped/2004/11/01/send_republicans_pac.php

Send Republicans packing

by Adam Klaus
Monday, November 1, 2004

Like you, I am a young voter. We are part of a generation that cyclically faces the stigma of being disinterested, disillusioned and disconnected. Youth are lazy. Youth are apathetic. Young people don’t pay attention to current affairs or politics. Though I’ve always been engaged with the community and world around me, this is the first time in my life that I can really taste the relevance of an election. What in previous years might have been more of an academic flexing of my ideology is now somehow more real. This time, it’s personal.

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Young people overwhelmingly understand that electing Democrats and progressives are the right choice for those of us who have weathered the destructive policies of the Republicans, and who desire so passionately a better world.

Our vote — the so-called young generation — is as critical a factor as the hyped battleground states. You and I hold in our hands the power to alter the course of US domestic and foreign policy with the casting of our ballots tomorrow. And I think we should do it. Not because it’s our democratic right. Not because both parties are begging us to. Not because it’s cool.

We’re voting for our lives. The Republicans must be fired. We need to elect a government of people who give a shit about what we go through. Don’t sit this one out, ok? Vote tomorrow — it’s time to take things personally.

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It is not clear that the "Republicans will be fired" tomorrow. We, and the future generations, can not afford another four years of Bush.

Go here to find out what you can still do to help change the course of history.

http://www.independentmediasource.com/activist_election.htm

http://www.independentmediasource.com/tmp/mosh.htm

http://www.independentmediasource.com/video.htm

[Triana]

1. You'd think the young ones would vote...

...they have the MOST to lose with a Republican *residency. The bill will be paid by them and theirs - in myriad ways - if they let the Republicans slap them with it.

[tommcintyre]

3. I think they will this time.

[nookiemonster]

2. Damn right, you are!

The youth have the most at stake in this election.

Voting for Bush = cannon fodder for neo-con wars

[tommcintyre]

4. Just on Lou Dobbs: 70% of "youth vote" has pledged to vote