GenZ Regrets
Apart from Molly Cat’s misadventures, yesterday was unremarkable. I did a lot of Remuneration, which I needed to do. The To Do list is now five miles long, and I need to tackle that, too. Sigh…
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With just one week to go till the upcoming election, people seem to be going quite mad. It used to be that candidates would have to come closer to the center, become more moderate, in order to be electable.
But that is no longer the case. Extreme partisanship is now the norm. And that has a two-fold effect:
(1) it disincentivizes compromise on any issue
(2) it alienates a huge segment of voters who (rightfully) believe that political leaders are no longer interested in governance, they’re interested not so much in winning as preventing the other side from winning (subtle distinction) because they typically dislike the other side more than they like their own side.
In other words, it’s a toxic mess.
My own thought is that when the dust has settled around the current election, the Big Story is gonna be the number of people who did not vote, who couldn’t stand to vote, who have tuned out politics because increasingly, politicians aren’t attending to people’s actual needs.
I have a feeling that self-disenfranchisement will be most pronounced in the young: GenZ is gonna sit this election out.
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With just one week to go till the upcoming election, people seem to be going quite mad. It used to be that candidates would have to come closer to the center, become more moderate, in order to be electable.
But that is no longer the case. Extreme partisanship is now the norm. And that has a two-fold effect:
(1) it disincentivizes compromise on any issue
(2) it alienates a huge segment of voters who (rightfully) believe that political leaders are no longer interested in governance, they’re interested not so much in winning as preventing the other side from winning (subtle distinction) because they typically dislike the other side more than they like their own side.
In other words, it’s a toxic mess.
My own thought is that when the dust has settled around the current election, the Big Story is gonna be the number of people who did not vote, who couldn’t stand to vote, who have tuned out politics because increasingly, politicians aren’t attending to people’s actual needs.
I have a feeling that self-disenfranchisement will be most pronounced in the young: GenZ is gonna sit this election out.