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(1,580 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)This is a clue of the dumbing down of people in the U.S. They were taught somewhere that voting does not matter.
JI7
(89,283 posts)it's nothing new. it would take something like a military draft or a law making voting mandatory to get a real change.
Midnight Writer
(21,830 posts)And this was when we were all in danger of a taxpayer funded trip to Vietnam.
Funtatlaguy
(10,893 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)It's not a current generation thing, it's always been this way.
Most of it is because they're fairly detached from the real world at that time. They don't pay bills, they don't go grocery shopping, they don't have their own health insurance, they don't have to pay premiums, etc. It's not until they're in their 20s and start taking on more responsibility that they realize how much everything impacts them. I was the same way.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Ive voted in every single election from the first year I could.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)in fact the next generation is more involved. I have millenials in the family also - the most apolitical bunch I know.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)From reality sometimes.