Our Youths Are Not Wasting Being Young

two very admirable youths with their height challenged Grandma

 They say that youth is wasted on the young, well that was certainly not the case in the midterm elections. 68% of people under thirty voted Democratic.  I believe that sets some kind of record and is certainly cause for cheering. Number one that they voted and number that they basically saved a woman's right to choose and also, gee wiz, our democracy. That is impressive.

I heard via the late night comics that the Fox news response to these figures is that the voting age should be raised and also, because in great numbers single women voted Blue, they encouraged men to marry these troublemakers. Do you love that logic?

I believe I made a good case for women being grossly underestimated as a force for change. But also we have to count the youth vote that put the democracy on the ballot. They came, they voted and they deserve credit for helping this country to turn away from all the big lies.

Although some Republican are trying to portray us Democrats as so uber liberal and elite we cannot connect to the average citizen. This is laughably untrue and in our state of Washington we just successfully elected Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a young mother with a small child who owns a car repair shop with her husband.  Marie successfully fought off her Republican opponent---Joe Kent. Maybe you know about Joe, the election denier, frequently appeared on Fox news and other right wing outlets. Joe is the one who has a member of the Proud Boys on his payroll and is staunchly against a woman's right to choose for any circumstance.  It is so satisfying to have the many learned Republicans join us in this fight to save democracy they recognized the extremes and voted for Marie. Aren't we all sick of extremists.

susansmagicfeather  2022 Susan R. Grout