Im Laufe der Zeit stimmen immer mehr Jugendliche aus der Politik ab
https://www.fascinatingworld.org/post/the-troubling-trend-of-young-americans-tuning-out-of-politics
Im Laufe der Zeit stimmen immer mehr Jugendliche aus der Politik ab
https://www.fascinatingworld.org/post/the-troubling-trend-of-young-americans-tuning-out-of-politics
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American youth, particularly those between the ages of 18 and 24 are politically apathetic, as evidenced by the alarmingly low youth voter turnout rates
The Washington Post reports that only “39.6% of youths aged 18-24 were registered to vote in November 2022.” Compared to the previous midterm election, this was the biggest decline in voter registration for any age group, displaying how critical yet neglected this issue is
The future of politics depends on participation and engagement from current youth voters, and the troubling decline suggests that more youth are disinterested in politics
But why exactly are more youth starting to tune out of politics? [Learn More](https://www.fascinatingworld.org/post/the-troubling-trend-of-young-americans-tuning-out-of-politics)
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This is a sign of crisis. Here in Hungary Orbán’s rule started like this.
Also as time progresses, more and more political platforms worldwide are executing agendas that benefits them and their rich financiers almost exclusively…
The youth tuning out of politics is the reason why we’re in this predicament in the first place.
Political disengagement will soon have us all enjoying the robust political landscape of Russia
They’re tuning out of everything except Tiktok and Streaming.
Uhm, „the future of politics depends on participation and engagement from current youth voters“ only if their vote would actually make a difference. Both parties are in a fight to make the votes as irrelevant as possible by gerrymandering districts. And I don’t think it’s that „more youth are disinterested in politics“, it’s just that they realize they don’t have any influence. Not even the law is stopping unscrupulous officials, and their rhetoric is like a bad script for a tv show.
„Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you“ quote Ralph Nader
I think a lot of the youth think what’s the point? No one in power is here to serve the public. They all seem to be serving their own interests, friends, family, corporations.
I’m 29 and I’m also now at this point. Every time a party gets in power, they promise the world and delivery nothing but hardship for the vast majority of the general public.
Politics shouldn’t seduce you; you should negotiate, that is, if you want to be in a partnership rather than an abusive relationship with the state.
Then maybe they deserve their lives to get worse and worse
It’s the youths fault. They never should have created such a broken system. Fucking youths, ruining everything!!!
Online doom and consumerism is incompatible with politics. You can’t be acting as a consumer and a citizen at the same time.
Our education system that treats politics as something done TO students, not BY them, and highlights how bans on civic activities (like contacting elected officials) further alienate young people from democratic participation.
If you want youths to care about democracy, stop teaching it like a multiple-choice quiz and start treating it like a group project with real stakes.
My younger cousins talk about what they want. Anecdotal, but actually pretty smart policies imo.
Better housing policy
Reduced deficit
Less war
less foreign aid
Release the epstein list (politician accountability more generally)
Both parties are exceedingly terrible all these fronts. Trump 2.0 promised some of these things, and totally 180’d once he got power. I get why they are pissed when instead of these things they are getting yelled at about how to police what gender people choose.
Hold on.
This article says:
„The Washington Post explains that only “39.6% of youths aged 18-24 were registered to vote in November 2022.” Compared to the previous midterm election, this was the biggest decline in voter registration for any age group,“
Yet [THIS](https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/new-data-nearly-half-youth-voted-2024) article says:
„close to half of young people (47%) ages 18-29 cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election. This revises our earlier estimate, based on exit polls available immediately after the election, which had put youth turnout at 42%, and it places young people’s electoral participation in 2024 much closer to 2020 (50%), which was a historically high year for voter turnout.“
So the question is, who do you believe is more likely to have an agenda, Jeff Bezos‘ Washington Post . . . Or the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement?