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And young people wonder why no one listens to them. Get mad. Call your elected officials about things that you care about. Volunteer for someone you like. Donate if you can. Commenting online is not doing anything.
Oh yeah... fucking vote.
That's the thing. Politicians do have access to lists who are registered to vote and who voted and in which election.
If your base doesn't vote, they will adjust their program to those who will. Old people get their way, because they ALWAYS vote.
This as well as the OP ignores the fact that the top two reasons for people not voting are politicians alienating them and politicians making it too difficult to vote.
Victim blaming the alienated and encumbered nonvoters does nothing about the root of the problem and is the equivalent of scolding someone working 60 hour weeks for minimum wage for not exercising and cooking healthy meals for themselves often enough.
Disclaimer to save some time rebutting the obvious strawman: I'm not an 18-24yo nonvoter myself. I'm 41 and never missed a chance to vote or told anyone not to.
But what 18-24 yo thinks their life will improve under Trump? Can't imagine that group of people.
No sane one. Their lives haven't improved under Biden either, though, which isn't great for their motivation to go wait for in line for hours to vote against Trump making everything even worse than it already is again.
Is it because trump SCOTUS blocked any changes he tried to do, claiming that it is outside of his power, and the Republican controlled house refuses to pass legislation that would codify it?
That's like 5% of it. The farce of the Senate parliamentarian comes to mind as an obvious example.
Another is when Manchin scrapped everything progressive from the omnibus bill and was awarded for it, never being disciplined for standing in the way of what Biden and the rest were pretending to want to do.
And of course, there's the means testing everything to death, like the Dem leadership always do in order to not inconvenience their owner donors too much.
Ok, but that's also total bullshit. Elected officials don't give a shit whether you're young or old, politically inclined or not, foreign or domestic, it only matters if you have money.
These are all good suggestions, and the best way to fight the power. But don't expect to make politicians care. The goal is to make enough noise and demand your rights, because the powerful will only concede ground when it becomes unprofitable to fight you.
They need votes to win first, and if there are voters that would block their victory they would have to accommodate them too.
As for bribes that's another issue and we need to keep their feet to fire and not allow
The vast majority of voters are not that dialed in to politics. They vote for names they recognize, or the name next to the D or R that they support. Name recognition is a commodity you can buy with money. If you asked a candidate whether they would rather have a billionaire donor or 10,000 volunteers, guarantee they would all pick the billionaire.