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Originally Posted by Dirtycommy
I'm 18 years old, and as most everyone knows 18-24 are the age category most likely not to vote in elections. I'm probably not gonna vote in 2012 and I really don't care. Right now I get that I need to vote to let my voice be heard exercise my right people died for, be in control of my life, and blah blah blah. I've tried to rationalize why I don't feel like voting and I've come to the conclusion to why I don't wanna vote and maybe why lots of younger adults don't either. The reason we don't vote is because we don't get to pick a candidate. If you think about it you can get into voting for primaries and other things and how actually yes our votes do pick a candidate but really no we don't, at least not my generation. First off there's no candidate that can truly relate to us, to be president you have to be at least 35 but the youngest ever elected was 42, how is my generation suppose to relate to someone who grew up without "Family Guy" or the Internet? Your laughing right now but its not a joke if you think about it no one in my generation had even heard of Barack Obama before the millions of dollars kicked out by sponsers started spreading his name all over the media and in no way did someone from my generation have a say in that. Basically its the baby boomers and generation X picking candidates and saying "here, these are the people you can vote for." Why the heck would I vote for that?
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good post. Frankly I think voting at 18 is inappropriate to begin with. The age was 21 until 1971. As people live longer they also take longer to "grow up". As a result I believe most age restrictions should rise, like driving.
As to you not having anyone running that understands you I totally agree. There are 4 senators in their 80s, 23 are in their 70s presently. How they can possible represent you is indeed ridiculous. IMHO
However your last statement is bogus. You have every bit as much opportunity to effect who runs as do baby bloomers or X folks.
BTW no one your age or my age heard of Obie until he was funded. That's how it works.
So you are half right and half lazy in your disillusionment of our political process and your own perceived disenfranchisement.
if it was up to me the way we vote would be significantly different but it's not so I do what I can rather than do nothing.