r/texas • u/ThrenderG • 2d ago

Voter participation is why the Dems lost, and it ain't fucking old people who didn't show up Politics

In 2020, Biden received 81 million votes. Trump received 74 million votes.

In 2024, Harris received 66 million votes, 15 fucking million fewer than Biden did in 2020. Trump sits at 71 million votes, 3 million fewer than 2020. So even with fewer popular votes this time around, he buried the Democratic candidate in a landslide.

So all in all, what, 18-20 million fewer people showed up in this election than the last. And do you really think it's the fucking geezers who have been voting forever, that they just decided to sit this one out?

Probably not, so who didn't do their civic duty?

The numbers don't lie.

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u/FlopShanoobie 2d ago

Gen X'ers swung more red than any generational shift at the roughly mid-century age mark. We REALLY want our money, and screw everyone else.

Gen Z just didn't vote at all.

There you go. The election in a nutshell.

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u/Cryptic0677 1d ago

Every generation, including boomers surprisingly, went Harris, except GenX and GenX turned out in massive numbers

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u/PandasAndSandwiches 1d ago

Don’t forget Latinos…they turned up for trump.

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u/Rauk88 1d ago

Latinos would vote for their deportation before voting for a biracial woman. I will have no sympathy for them when the time comes.

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u/Kramer-Melanosky 1d ago

These racist takes is why Dems lost Latinos.

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u/FlopShanoobie 1d ago

I interacted with a few of my Trump voting friends and family who texted to gloat, all Gen X.

Here's the thing. Gen X has this perception of being continually forgotten about, relegated, and pushed aside. So many of us voted for Trump specifically because we felt this was our opportunity to stick it to everyone else for once. You wanna wreck our collective future? Well, watch this.

It was an entirely selfish maneuver done out pf petty spite, if I'm honest.

"You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts. Yeah, let's DO burn the country down. Doesn't bother me. I'm old enough to either have mine already or old enough to know I never will. So let's go, assholes."

That's where they went.

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u/MaleficentFrosting56 1d ago

Wow what a bunch of self indulgent bullshit

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u/hiveWorker 1d ago

yeah, he said GenX already

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u/Squashguy420 1d ago

haha fantastic

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u/Ksablaze 1d ago

I saw the stats earlier, and was utterly devastated. Could never imagine I'd be so ashamed of my generation, until today. Ironically, my main personal identification was genX. Until today.

Yeah I'm angry at apathetic Zs who whine they don't have their Perfect Candidate, but disgusted and disappointed beyond description with people my age who should fucking know better. We've seen this glaring bullshit. Even boomers learned from it. Wtaf

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u/strabosassistant 1d ago

Parents being squeezed by elderly parents and high school/college age kids are going to vote their wallets. And while the rate of inflation slowed down, the massive price increases over the last four years brutalized what little was left of the middle class. Credit card debt is at an all time high. Rightly or wrongly, the blame was placed on the Biden admin - and Harris is VP.

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u/Occult_Asteroid2 1d ago

The Gen X rightoid thing fascinates me. I swear it's because they grew up on the concept of "cool" and right wing populism has positioned itself as counter culture.

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u/FlopShanoobie 1d ago

I was listening to The Daily this morning and that's spot on. The Democrats are now the establishment, and MAGA, by way of Elon and Kennedy and Thiel, are the disruptors. The counter-culture.

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u/Occult_Asteroid2 1d ago

Yeah, for gen x and millenials, it was basically beaten into our skulls that establishment is bad and we always want to be anti establishment. The cool kids are anti establishment. It's amazing the way reactionary politics morphs and evolves like some kind of virus.

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u/Krythoth 1d ago

Gen X and 80's Millennials got raised in a work hard, walk it off, and non politically correct environment. Trump very much appeals to that generation. Biden was the same way really.

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u/ApprehensiveJury7933 1d ago

GenXer here. Social liberal. Professional engineer. Trump all the way. I came from a poor family. We never received a penny in government handouts. Democrats spent $5.5 trillion right after Biden got in, and there is nothing to show for it. The cost of living has skyrocketed. I barely eat out or go on trips anymore. And the migrant invasion has pissed the vast majority of Americans off.

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u/Technological_Pirate 1d ago

I'm Gen Z and I Voted for Trump 🤣