1. Apatía Juvenil frente a la Desilusión Sistémica.
El debate se centra en si la baja participación de los jóvenes es una falta de interés o una respuesta racional a un sistema que perciben como fallido.
- Young people are disillusioned and feeling rage, not apathy. They dont like institutions or parties and they dont trust elected officials or corporations to fix their problems.
- Voter apathy is high because the dems just slow the rate of decline compared to the other guys. Nothing gets better. Id argue young folks are very much awake. They just wont vote for a party that participates in genocide and enriches the owning class.
- As someone in that age range, there is an alarming apathy growing amongst young people. To be fair, it is frustrating how pathetic all our parties and leaders can be, but they feel so disenfranchised by the system they genuinely believe it doesnt matter whos in charge and if they vote.
2. El Conflicto Generacional y la Desconexión del Liderazgo.
Muchos ciudadanos atribuyen la apatía a la permanencia de una clase política envejecida que bloquea el paso a nuevas voces y preocupaciones.
- I would submit that the apathy of young voters is because they feel, correctly, that their voices dont matter. Because, as previously mentioned, the boomers wont let go of their power.
- Having geriatric elected representatives that vacillate between senility and apathy is a bad thing?
- The old guard and their apathy have gotten us where we are today. They should have prosecuted the prick in office and he should be sitting in prison right now. When youre getting hefty paychecks from donors and corporations they cease to listen to us.
3. Consecuencias para la Democracia y el Avance del Autoritarismo.
La inacción de los votantes es vista como el principal facilitador de la erosión democrática y el ascenso de figuras políticas extremas.
- 80 million americans skipped the 2024 election. Only 47 of young adults voted. Just 25 of young black men. 27 of young latino men. The silence is the message. Authoritarianism doesnt need your support, just your apathy.
- Apathy is whatll kill us.
- The apathy seen in the 2014 midterms is completely lost on the people who sat out 10 years later. American youth will be lost by the ignorance of our youth. Thats been the republican playbook for decades were lost.
4. Propuestas para Combatir el Desinterés Político.
Desde la educación temprana hasta la reforma de los sistemas de votación, se buscan mecanismos para reenganchar a la ciudadanía en la vida pública.
- Best way to beat voter apathy is to engage them while theyre young - and listen to them.
- We need to get the population out of their apathy, and agitating to vote yes this isnt 2014, so well need move that grassroots hope over fear attitude online into the online world, as well as the streets.
- Political apathy shown by many, seen in the falling polling numbers, is designed to leave younger voters dissilusioned and leave the older generation and party membership voting, which is a much easier demographic to predict.