Younger voters aren't disengaged. Their faith in our institutions is at an all-time low, and with good reason…
I’m not going to spend time trying to debunk the notion of Millennials as lazy or disengaged. I don’t buy those narratives, either anecdotally or statistically, but what’s important today is that we’ve seen the confirmation of a very dangerous trend: this moment of low turnout is perfectly in line with an all-time low in people’s faith in our institutions of government. If what we want from voting is for people to engage more with the rules that govern their lives, we need to make the process of engaging much more meaningful that what currently passes as voting.Saalon
Why millennials pulled a disappearing act on Election Day
Alan Smith, Next New Deal
Alan Smith, Next New Deal
3 comments:
I've noticed especially on the Democratic side that the people who were most engaged in the election were boomers, who are true believers in the old Clinton/neoliberal/cultural liberal consensus.
I think the left has a cognitive bias here:
"Money, as the Daily Show observed, pretty roundly trumped ideas in this election."
The left is too caught up in "money" in politics... the people on the right are true believers, its like the left thinks "they are being bribed by money!" or something... I'm afraid not...
So the left's bias here has them too focused on "money" and not enough on ideas...
this is like the inverse of Dan's "magic money mill"...
I agree that money was not the overriding factor, Matt, but there is no doubt that money is a key factor in US politics to the degree of creating conflict of interest and undermining liberal democracy as government of the people, by the people and for the people rather than government by those who own the country. The role of money runs through the selection process and skews the governing process in that legislators spend most of their time raising campaign funds. It' a corrupt crony system that is rotten to the core and an insult to liberal democracy.
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