Many young people say they don vote because they e “too busy”. Does anybody else find that hard to believe?
No, I don’t find it hard to believe at all. I find it surprising that the percentage is that low. Between the ages of 18 and 24, I managed to have two children, get a college degree, and move across the country not once but twice. But I didn’t vote, in ANY election. Didn’t mean I was not interested and aware. But when election day comes, and your son has a fever of 102, you’re not very interested in going downtown to vote. Or you’re 22 years old, pregnant, and just did a sixteen hour shift at the hospital and you have to choose whether to vote or sleep. I don’t think you are the exception to the normal 18-24 year old; I think those people in your break room are the exception. I think many people care a great deal, but life tends to get in the way. 18-24 is a hectic time of life.
Well, let’s be real! It’s a given that the average IQ is set at 100. The average politcal, social and economic questions are more complex than a person with a 100 IQ or less can handle. It’s sooo boring! To them, it is boring. Then there’s experiance. A person at age 18 to 20 is only three to four years away from that first kiss, a really cool skateboard and a time when ten bucks was a lot of money. Exactly why they set the minimum age for voting at 18 is a great mystery. For a century or more it was set at 21….and that was a time when if a person lived to see 40 or 45 it was miracle. Back in the day a boy of fourteen or fifteen was considered a man. By 21 he was considered an experianced man. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the issues of the day 100 and 150 years ago were far less complex than today, usually more regional and personal. Today we’re supposed to actually care about people all over the planet, be familiar with the moral and ethical considerations of forms of scie
