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Originally Posted by Mr K
Yes it is an issue but the Govt. haven't exactly moved with the times on voting . That, plus making registration less straightforward, anyone would think they don't want the young to vote.
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It's not hard to do too. I am deeply unhappy about the way generational inequality has been reinforced over time.
But it isn't hard to vote. There is a Holier-than-thou attitude towards voting where people proudly abstain from voting for 'the lesser of two evils'. I remember in 2015 they talked to some 'young people'* and there was one guy who was complaining that although he liked some things about Miliband there were other things he didn't like and so was abstaining.
Nobody in life gets everything they thought they were going to get and no one is going to give you everything you want but for some reason many people believe this is what they're entitled too. It's fashionable to celebrate cynicism in politics but I think a lot of it is people are given unrealistic expectations of what politicians can deliver. Politics is about compromise and building coalitions of different groups of people to enact change and getting what you can. But you look around and everyone seems to go to uncompromising politicians who claim they can deliver what
they specifically want, such as Corbyn.
Drives me mad.
*incidentally these groups always seem weird. Most young people don't go around proclaiming themselves to be the voice of young people. For some reason news companies only seem to attract odd balls to those kind of things.