50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to get student loans erased

Re:50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to g... by newsmania on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:23PM (#15290291)

Your right to vote does a lot more for you than get you money, it can keep you alive! For one it could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated and people forced to go due in Vietnam.

Additionally it could keep you out of jail.

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Re:50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to g... by thisisdave on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:57PM (#15290436)

>voting could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated

... only in the unlikely event that my vote changes the outcome of an election, and the candidate I voted for would also be able to affect such a big legislative change.

Millenials as a group might be worse off if many traded away their right to vote, but that's not the same thing as saying that individuals benefit in a tangible way from that right.

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Re:50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to g... by Analemma_ on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:51PM (#15290405)

> For one it could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated and people forced to go due in Vietnam.

Could it, though?

Remember, if you’re not in a swing state, your Presidential vote is literallly—� not figuratively, literally— worthless. Same goes for your Congressional vote if you’re in one of the increasingly-common gerrymandered districts. And even if that’s not he case, the odds of your vote making a tangible policy difference are remote at best.

Sounds to me like Millenials are making an entirely rational calculation on their votes’ value.

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