The Youth have had little importance in Politics for a while now, and its certainly getting worse. Until they vote in numbers they don’t mean shit and the millennial generation are less likely to vote than their predecessors.
Nail on the head by Jackie with the apathy call as well. Tie that in with austerity and the manipulation of information (fake news) and its no surprise to see such extremism rearing its ugly head.
May, Trump, Boris, Putin, Kim, Erdogan, Israel, Georgia, Syria, China, Somalia, Yemen, Burma (Mynamar), IS, Turkey, Kurds, Floods, Typhoons, Millions of children raped beaten and abused for over 2000 years of history and getting worse than ever…
Poor getting poorer Rich getting richer, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Dickensian Factory conditions, Zero hour contracts, #metoo, Billions of metric tones of toxic waste and spent fuel buried each year despite ample free energy, plastic in your food, mass species extinction.
Genocide, Ethnic cleansing, torture and murder of dissidents, chemical weapons on children, trafficking, slavery, massive population displacement, crop failure and famine, Nations collapsing, Democracy tainted and abused…
All accepted and the norm because to challenge or oppose is too much hassle.
Even though voting is so piss easy.
Shame.