Debbie Downer here. Would repealing Roe vs Wade REALLY spur Democratic turnout?

[Vogon_Glory]

I wish I could be more optimistic about the backlash against the Supreme Court reactionaries repealing Roe versus Wade. I wish I could believe that angry and motivated voters affected by this decision would register like made, then gather around the polls like swarms of killer bees, not only cutting short the political careers of right-wing hacks in swing districts but in states that have been deep red since Ronald Reagan was in the White House.

I hate to say it, but I am afraid that the groups most likely to be affected by upcoming abortion bans, the young adults, the twenty-somethings, are the demographic that have time and time again broke the hearts of Democratic activists year after year, decade after decade, despite the appeals, despite the warnings, and just didn’t bother to vote.

And no, talk about Gathering of Psychotics/Banana Republican/GQP voting restrictions doesn’t cut it. This demographic was flaking out LONG, LONG BEFORE THEN.

Oh, some of them are indignant now. Some of them might even have, like, you know, actually filled out the forms to register to vote (whether they bothered to mail or file them is another matter).

But will they actually be there, or will they imitate their older sisters and cousins and go ghosting when it’s time to cast their ballots?

I hope I’mwrong, but I feel like I’ve been burned too often.