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In reply to the discussion: The People Who Run This Country Are All Too Damn Old [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Yes, it's a damned shame more younger people aren't more responsible. Many are very smart and could make good decisions. But until more get the idea that how they vote really matters and they're supposed to inform themselves, the demo as a whole is also potentially dangerous and vulnerable to manipulation.
Anyone forgot the crowds of mostly young people who cheered the LW populist leader? The one who had no idea how he would fulfill his campaign promises -- except that people across the nation would threaten the representatives they'd just elected if they didn't fall in line support our first "legislating president"? Just slightly anti-democratic? Not a problem for those. Like the hoodlums who came to take take over, and even tried to riot at, state conventions even though some of them hadn't bothered to register to vote before arriving, and some weren't even from those states? Who needs law when you have a righteous mob?
The ones who threw the progressive ideals they cheered dutifully under the bus in a spiteful tantrum? Turned out the ideals weren't important to them after all.
Oh, yeah, we want more of those kind of young people, and the kind of demagoguery they're drawn to. Unfortunately, they're the most easily energized and tricked young people. Just give them a noisy, defiant crowd of other young people and they will come.