registrations and kick people off like they do in georgia. just do everything they can to make it harder for young people to vote. that is their response. the responses say we will not let you vote at all. exactly. that is what nursing the day after the 2022 midterm elections, issa republicans come out and say they want to see the age race to 21. yet they still allow 18-year old to buy assault weapons. parties are long on every level. like olivia said, republicans are stupid but they are also terrified. they would not be doing this if% they did not think we were a political threat to their message and their ability to sit in power. you have a bunch republicans literally trying to suppress us in states like texas, florida, increasing the requirements for voting i.d. laws . make it harder for us to go on campus. all of these things are trying to be geared to get us to stay home. it will not work because young people are out there and we are protesting. come 2024, they will see us turno
you have a clear contrast between what democrats are doing and republicans are doing. ron desantis thought he could get away with this by setting the bill at 11:00 p.m. eastern time last night. people are paying attention. you have students across the state of florida protesting and doing walkouts this weekend over the weekend. you have young voters really paying attention to this. it is up to democrats to make 2024. it is not a referendum. it ll be a choice between a party that cares about young people and their safety and their rights. a party that does not. the stalker that democrats can make that the more it will reach young people. it will show young people what the two parties are all about. you have one party that is completely disintegrated its responsibility from caring about young people. i think you are seeing the response right now with florida and tennessee. young people are not here for it. we are going to turn out and support the party that cares about it. just like oliv
the young people who are outside of the chambers protesting and yelling and screaming, and my next? please do something about gun reform are not there. olivia, in your perception, do they just ignore all of you? i wish i could say there is some grand plan that they have about why they ignore us. honestly, i think they are stupid. they have no real policy agenda they are used to this gold old boy game of buying elections or finding people who should not have government elected offices. they continue to undermine us. they continue to ignore our voices. i think that they know that it is a problem. those are not my words, those are the words of former republican governor of wisconsin, scott walker. after we just flipped the wisconsin supreme court said, verbatim, young voters are the issue. those are his words, a former governor in response to younger voters having mass turnout in a
spring election. that is something that we do not see in this country. i think it is a marker of the trend. to people like scott and to these republicans, young voters are not the issue. young voters are the solution to the problem that is the maga republican party. we have made that clear in these elections. they expect is not to turn out they expect their far right base , their older white male base to carry them through and time and time again, they continue to fall short. that will keep happening until they decide to finally listen to what young voters have to say. victor, you tweet about this a lot. you are seeing as young voters start to participate more. it is the gen x and older, like young people do not vote anyway. now that you start to see the huge turnout that olivia was talking about, the response of republicans have not been to moderate the policies, it has been to suppress young voters. get rid of drop boxes because young people use them. mess around with the voter
we are angry and kissed off republicans to take note of that. olivia, young voters have to come out in numbers that overcome voter suppression, which is what black voters of had to do for generations. you express a certain percentage, so we have to come out. black women and black men do that. young voters have voted at low levels, typically. now, upholds show the anxiety level among young people just about gun violence alone. the anxiety level among young people given the fact that a large percentage of young people never make it to 40. 58%, according to the institute of politics, exhibit the anxiety about gun violence there was a poll that has a percentage of young people that will not make it to 40 as children, is relatively high. when you see the anxiety does that start to translate among people you know into actual voting? is that connection being made humor absolutely. it is not just about gun