Will Gen Z & Millennials Show Up Next November?

Trigger alert: If you’re a Gen Z with thin skin, now would be a great time to do a vibe check and bounce.

Because I’m growing increasingly impatient, and quite frankly annoyed, by the naivete and attitude of some young people today. Their planet is burning up. Their schools are being shot up. If they get an abortion they could be locked up. Their Constitution is being torn up. Their democracy is being blown up. But polls show young folks are abandoning President Biden because of his support for Israel following the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

While young people today are the most electorally engaged in decades, with 31% under age 30 having voted in 2022, that number is both perplexing and embarrassing. Given what’s at stake with climate change, reproductive rights, school shootings and overall gun violence, and the existential threat facing our democracy, that stat should be more like 80%. If they don’t vote and vote Democrat now, I doubt they ever will…

So why are Gen Z and millennial voting percentages so low? Why don’t they vote? Many people characterize them as uninformed, naive and misguided at best, or apathetic, entitled and lazy at worst.

With each election, there’s the incessant chatter — more like hope — about how it’s Gen Z and young people who are gonna save…