Why are the young discontented with politics?

Question

I am young i am disapointed with the state of politics in britain, i have noticed that the majority people in this country are voting for personal wealth instead of voting for a better future.

Answer 1

Obviously, your vision of a better future and theirs are quite different. Perhaps when you start earning your own money you will understand how absurd it is to try and take it from others who worked hard for theirs.

Answer 2

I can not speak for the young in general but only of my own experience. At 27 I still consider myself young enough to answer this.

I grew up with a conservative government who promised the world and failed to deliver, I have now endured a labour government who has done much of the same while taking more of my money to do it with. Every time there is an election, you hear the same useless drivel about who'll sort out the NHS and pensions and save us money. When it comes to it though whatever they give to you and make a big song and dance about having done so they take double back somewhere else!
All the parties are the same, we have three left wing idealist parties all fighting over technicalities. They all lie to get where they need to be and do as little as they need to stay there. Politicians are voting themselves huge increases in there own personal benefits year on year while telling the general public that they cannot expect the same.

I don't think it is just young people though, I think the public in general is discontented with politics speak to a few older people and find out how many of them actually vote, I don't because I will not support this system of greed and reward for what is essentially a popularity contest. Check voters turnout figures and you will see the sad fact of the matter is that the minority is placing these people in power, voter turnout at the last general election was around 47% as I recall that means less than half of us voted for anyone at all and yet they still will not admit there is an issue and just consider that people who don't vote can't have opinions on political issues. I'm going to stop typing now coz this subject really gets me fired up!!!

Answer 3

As someone who can still remember when he was young, it seems to me that political discontent is as natural to young people as being obsessed with clothes and sex. The greatest majority of youth have never been much interested in politics, have been apolitical or have been outright antithetical to the current powers that be. It is like any rite of passage. When the callous superiority of youth passes at about age 30, then the once uninterested or turned-off become suddenly aware that politics is not all bad; they even run for office, and somewhere along the way, it even becomes important to them, not as something to ridicule or despise, but as something to pay attention to, to vote, and to participate in it in some way. It is just a cycle, part growing up.

Answer 4

I don't think the young are any more discontented with politics now than at any time in the past. Young people have ideals which are good but are always disappointed when politicians compromise them.

Its just that in recent years it has become more possible for people to express themselves to a wider audience with advances in communication such as the Internet.

Answer 5

Because if you ask the average young person about the Nelson statue, they are more likely to respond about Nelson Mandella than they are to respond about Lord Admiral Nelson.

Western education these days teaches that western ideals are not worth defending with your life, and that western lifestyle is responsible for everything bad in this world. When you tell people that the only life they know is responsible for modern and historical evil, you will have a disconnect from this false white guilt.

Answer 6

I was shocked and hurt to realize as a young adult in America that most people vote for handouts, not better candidates.

About the time our original 13 states adopted the new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143
million,
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000,
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in
counties won by: Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1.

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the
tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's
territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements living off government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between
the "complacency & apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency" phase.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is
at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to
our freedom.

Answer 7

Because the rich in the English-speaking world have done an excellent job of hoodwinking the half-educated white majorities.

Answer 8

It is the same in the colonies. Its all about money from Politics to Religion. We can't get good healthcare but Exxon CEO can get a $4,000,000.00 Retirement package.

Answer 9

Because unlike past generations we haven't given them any reason to be concerned.We as a spices tend to make the same mistakes over and over again. and until they have a reason to be politically involved they probably wont.

Answer 10

because the politicians are disgusting (most ov them)
and they make it sound like it was made for pensioners
not our fault all we can do is follow antill we retire the join politics