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Originally Posted by Osem
There's a staggering amount of that around and its not just ignorance of politics either. I listen to some of my son's mates and you have to wonder just where they've been and why so little of what's going on around them has sunk in, even if purely subliminally. Maybe it's down, in part, to a lifestyle which presents so many diversions of one sort or another. It's not just here either, the wife's family back home are seeing the same with their kids and younger people in general there. They spend vast amounts of time living virtual lives that they experience and are influenced far less by the reality.
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Some people just don't care. It's what people engaged with politics get wrong when they point at the number of non-voters and assume that they can be made to come out and vote. It's not disillusionment, it's that they simply don't care.
I think it's because it's hard for them to see what difference it makes to their day-to-day lives. For a start recent years have seen little difference between the two major parties and with he economy along with globalisation having such a driving force on policy it's hard for any one government to make massive, wholesale, changes. So the impact of different governments are felt by people on the edges of society, the very poor or the very rich, who feel the tinkering changes that these governments do make.
The rest of it is just a slightly different approach to some parts of their life which would probably happen either way. The things that do matter to them go on as do their lives and the rest of it? So what.
I think it may be changing though. We're seeing less moderate people rising to the top of politics and they're more populist or ideologically than the likes of Blair, Cameron and Obama. Issues such as the economic crash, stagnating wages, a spareness of homes and the continuing decline of manual work in the Western world means people's lives are now being impacted.