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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

ELECTION EDITION: Young Voters Starving For Truth

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Young people are not voting. Politico believes that it's because the government hasn't gotten with the times, but Mike Slater thinks it's a much different reason. Perhaps America's youth is tired of being lied to and is starving for the truth? Mike falls back on the Jeremiah 16:6 and President Calvin Coolidge for perspective.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Sleider Crusaders. Welcome back to Road to Midterms. If you're watching this on the TV right now,

0:12.1

this is our Politics by Faith segment that we end every show with. That's the name of our podcast,

0:18.9

Politics by Faith. So this is an abbreviated version of the podcast that we do, where we take a story that's the name of our podcast politics by faith so this is an abbreviated version of the podcast that we do where we take a story that's

0:24.4

causing anxiety and we add some historical perspective and biblical piece to

0:30.9

make the anxiety go away so we do a podcast where we go into more detail with all

0:36.9

of this stuff if you're listening to this on the podcast and it sounds different, I got a different microphone. And it's because this is the last segment of the TV show that we do Road to Midterbs. So wherever you are, thank you for being here and listening and or watching. The kids are not voting.

0:58.4

Democrats are worried. Biden's approval rating among 18 to 30-year-olds, which should be high,

1:04.9

you'd think, right? The kids like Democrats, right? Low 30s. Yes, they voted for Biden by a 25-point margin over Donald Trump.

1:14.6

But that's because the kids hated Trump. Not because they loved Biden. It turns out not even

1:18.7

because they loved the Democrats. Politico wrote a long article about Gen Z. For our purposes

1:26.4

here, we'll call that 18 to 30 year old.

1:29.3

And the articles about how Democrats need to speak to Gen Z, right?

1:35.6

Talk to them about the issues that most affect them, that they're most passionate about,

1:39.8

like global warming and mental health and student debt, things like that.

1:43.4

And you've got to engage with the youth vote, Democrats.

1:46.8

You've got to engage with them.

1:48.0

You've got to meet them where they are.

1:49.6

You got to pull up a chair and sit backwards in it, you know?

1:53.3

Let them know how cool you are, hip and with it.

1:56.5

You've got to use TikTok.

1:58.3

Right?

1:58.9

Maybe put your baseball cap on backwards, talk and slang.

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