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are you more engaged with electoral politics than you were 10 years ago?

yes
6 (50%)
no
6 (50%)

Total Members Voted: 12

Voting closed: December 01, 2021, 03:08:46 PM

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political engagement poll
« on: November 27, 2021, 03:08:46 PM »
saw this and wanted to gauge it based on goEMAW users.  i assume most people here were regular voters ten years ago and also are now, so i just want to know if you generally are more interested in/more motivated by elections/voting than you were ten years or so ago.

https://twitter.com/realtonysm1th/status/1464440719377059843


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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2021, 04:34:25 PM »
I am more interested/motivated. But, I always assumed that was because I’m getting older.

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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2021, 04:38:49 PM »
unfortunately, there's no way to untangle the aging of the goEMAW user base from a national trend towards increasing engagement with national politics.
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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2021, 09:22:39 AM »
I don't know if I would say that I am more interested. I have always read up on the candidates and voted, and I still think I have far better things to spend money on than political campaigns. I never used to be worried at all if my guy didn't win, though, and Trump has definitely changed that.

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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2021, 10:46:53 AM »
I've been much more motivated to vote in the past couple of elections. Because I think the stakes are MUCH higher. At the same time, I feel like it's fighting a losing battle. Like showing up at the already surrounded Alamo. Doing it more out of duty or whatever.

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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2021, 01:06:15 PM »
I'm with steven david on this one. 10 years ago I was pretty young, so, yeah.

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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2021, 01:21:36 PM »
I was closing out my radical phase 10 years ago but I vote more often now as an old man cynic
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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2021, 09:02:57 PM »
Hey, I'm an old man and I have been fighting this crap since the seventies.  The awful facts are things haven't changed for the better and have gotten worst.  The rich own the media and brain wash our simple minds into doing what they want and we do what they want without even knowing that what we're doing.  We're basically mumped.
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Re: political engagement poll
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2021, 10:42:12 PM »
Nope. I've become more liberal though.