Former Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed Friday that she is “thinking about” running for president in 2028 at the 2026 National Action Network Convention – in her most open public remarks to date about her political future.
A lot of people on many sides are terminally online. If you ask the median voting-age US citizen why they didn’t vote, the only answer they can give is “I just don’t really care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
I choose to read that as “neither party speaks to my situation” rather than the indifference being an accident. There are a lot of reasons to care with how politics affect, well, everything, but that doesn’t mean parties are involving the masses. No, they’re actually doing an excellent job alienating them.
And that’s just the non-voters. The only reason people even vote is to make things less shitty, not because they feel particularly moved by either party, which proves how alienation affects even committed voters.
A lot of people on many sides are terminally online. If you ask the median voting-age US citizen why they didn’t vote, the only answer they can give is “I just don’t really care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
I choose to read that as “neither party speaks to my situation” rather than the indifference being an accident. There are a lot of reasons to care with how politics affect, well, everything, but that doesn’t mean parties are involving the masses. No, they’re actually doing an excellent job alienating them.
And that’s just the non-voters. The only reason people even vote is to make things less shitty, not because they feel particularly moved by either party, which proves how alienation affects even committed voters.