The issue Burt has so ham-handedly alluded to, but completely failed to illustrate here is pretty simple. So simple, in fact, that – like the controversy over “climate crisis”, the economy, oil, health care and all the rest – a monumental degree of obfuscation has been heaped upon it to make it appear to be far more complex than it is. And it has nothing to do with whether young voters are casting in favor of Republicans or Democrats, Jack. Having covered this before at IMDB, I’ll just quote:
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“Young voters” – especially contemporary young voters – have absolutely no business whatsoever exercising any voice at all in national or global politics. They have neither the education, experience, wisdom or powers of reason required to make sense of social complexities – let alone to render a rational public opinion on them. Ample proof is right here on this board [note: or any far-left blog/community, like DKos, et al., which is populated primarily by high school and college students... or their adult-aged but intellectual equivalents. -ed.).
Young voters are cultivated - and efforts to lower the voting age are pursued - for a single reason: to support socialist ideology. This is an ideology that the young naturally subscribe to and find comfort in. Why? Because that ideology represents a system where all of their wants and needs will (continue to) be provided for by someone else - absolving them of the responsibility.
This is the "promise" of socialism: cradle-to-grave 'social justice' programs like "universal" health care and social security, aimed at supporting every individual citizen for life... regardless of what that individual actually puts into the system. This is, of course, the only reality that the vast majority of the young have ever known: their wants and needs have been, and continue to be organized, financed and otherwise met not by themselves, but by parents, federal school loans, scholarships, grants, social programs, etc.
Notably, this is also the only reality most academics have ever known - adult adolescents who live in a privileged, tenured world where their futures are guaranteed regardless of what they actually contribute (or destroy). No accountability whatsoever. It's no wonder, therefore, that socialist and marxist ideologues are so well represented among American academics.
As things have evolved, it's no longer even possible to hold a college-age child (or their professors) responsible for their academic performance: grades have been all but abolished and academic institutions (and attorneys) make it virtually impossible for parents to discover and render a judgment on their child's academic record. Constructivist theory in academia has pretty much destroyed education - making the process a group-grope affair where many individuals garner credit from the few who actually do the work, all while the instructor/professor stands idly by as a "guide" - or worse - spends class time bashing the current political whipping boy rather than teaching the subject matter. And guess which way that hot air usually blows...
Socialist rhetoric attempts to hide all this, of course, but the reality is that as a result of the false promise, most truly socialist societies are slowly going bankrupt (or, as in much of Europe, being supplanted by Islamist culture due to their own cultural apathy). And the socialist societies that have [d]evolved into communism ultimately fail completely, with attendant loss of life approaching 150,000,000 people… and counting.
With these realities in evidence, it’s no wonder why vacuous socialists like Barack Obama (and to a lesser extent, Hillary Clinton – and that solely because of her waffling on the war) appeal to young voters, academics and the “braintrust” of the overwhelmingly Democrat-registered media and entertainment industry. Obama provides “hope” via empty platitudes and promises of “innovative solutions” while never specifying any details of what those solutions will involve. The reason is that he doesn’t have any details. He doesn’t understand human nature, or the real problems facing humanity, any better than his marxist father did, or any better than his America-hating religious mentor does.
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