Millennials: get off your ass and vote!
Image of a millennial who demonstrates against Brexit
It’s starting to look like a trend in several countries, such as the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The generation gap makes it hard for millennials to get what they want in the elections. Older voters are ruining what the younger generation wants for their future, because their opinions differ in a lot of stuff. So millennials, if you want a bright future ahead of you, get off your ass and vote!
The older generation, also named the babyboomers generation, are not so positive about the millennials generation. They think millennials are lazy, narcissistic and self centered. Millennials according to babyboomers hate to work and they live with their parents.
What the babyboomers don’t see is that millennials have other qualities. One of these qualities is that they’re more accepting of diversity then other generations. Another quality is that they choose our personal life to be the main focus instead of their work life. And that is why voting is so relevant, because millennial have another mindset then the previous generations. And you don’t want to get stuck in a government who doesn’t understand the millennial generation.
Brexit Take for example the United Kingdom’s (UK) European Union (EU) referendum about whether to stay in the or to leave the EU on the 24th of June. Eventually 52 percent from the UK voted to leave the European Union. Meanwhile, 75 percent of the voters between the age of 18 and 24 voted remain.
Poll about what the UK citizens would vote before they voted
One of the possible reasons that Brexit is happening is because millennial don’t cast a ballot. In the latest UK general election, the turnout for voters of the age of 25 and under was less than 50 percent. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of people whose age are 65 or older voted that same election. That’s why elections are so unpredictable, you don’t know what the turnout will be. Looking at the UK general election and the numbers who voted remain and voted leave, it’s safe to say that if more millennial had voted, the UK probably remained in the EU.
How the age range voted at the UK’s EU election
United states election The world was devastated when they heard on November 8 that the citizens of the United States voted for republican Donald Trump to be their president. Nobody had even thought that the man who hates immigrants and grab females by their pussy would ever made it. What we see in this election is the same as Brexit: older generations vote differently than the millennials.
All the older white population saw Trump as their savior. Meanwhile, millennials (at the age rate of 18 till 34 in this poll) voted for Hillary Clinton by 60%. Trump only gets 32% from the millennials to vote for him. The 8 percent that remained had cast a ballot at a third party member. It wasn’t enough to make Clinton president. If only millennials had voted, Clinton would have won with a landslide. While Clinton had more votes (48 to 47 percent), Trump had won more states and so more electors.
How the US election looked when only millennials voted
Voting in the US In the United States, you need 270 electors to win the election. How bigger the state, how more electors there are. For example: a big state like Florida has 27 electors and a small state like Alaska only has 3 electors. With this system Trump has won 305 electors against 233 electors won by Clinton.To see all sort of statistics, you can click on this link.
So in the United States we see something similar as in the United Kingdom. The older generation are ruining the future the millennials want. But is the older generation to blame or the millennials? Fortune asked about 10.000 millennials if they would cast a ballot. At least 17 percent of the young men and 13 percent of the young woman said they wouldn’t vote for either Clinton or Trump. So they would vote on a third party member (which is kind of a lost vote because those people will never win) or don’t vote at all.
But these voters are crucial in swing states like Ohio en Florida. Ohio en Florida could turn either way, because the opinions are divided. Ohio for example, have voted the last two elections for the Democrats. Now the Republicans have won in Ohio and in the end, the Republicans won the elections. This could’ve been different if that 30% of millennials that didn’t vote had voted.
Dutch millennials: go vote! On the 15th of March people in the Netherlands will cast a ballot on who will be in the government. So millennials, I think you know what I want to ask from you. Please go vote for people who represent your ideas and make your future bright. You have seen what can happen if you don’t vote. Get off your ass and vote!












