Young Progressives

 In 2016 about 130 million votes were cast for president.  About 90 million eligible voters didn't vote.

Most agree that the non-voters are greater in the younger and minority groups.  So one of the issues is clear, get these folks to vote.

Of course this is something the Democrats are more interested in.

Those groups tend to be more progressive than the others and if they all voted we would see some significant changes in our country.

You can see the impact if you simply look at what is happening in our urban areas, at least their residential parts.

I grew up in the Bronx and it was, like the other Burroughs mostly a place for working people with neighborhoods that tended to represent particular nationalities .

We had Irish Neighborhoods, Italian neighborhoods, Puerto Rican neighborhoods, German and others.

It was heavily Democratic, They were often Union members, veterans, who got jobs in the various small manufacturing and retail related jobs, like warehousing, available to them.  They were generally religious and family people although there were plenty of underlying issues there.

They supported the traditional Democratic party and once elected to a seat you were pretty safe.

It still as Democratic as ever and the people there still work in similar jobs, but the children of these people are starting to vote and they are much more progressive.  So we see them turning out and voting for fellow progressives.

This trend is expanding and it bodes badly for the Republican party.

They are getting energized about climate change, health care, social equality and wealth inequality.

They are voting and I think we will see some historic results.