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carboxyl · 3694 days ago · link · · parent · post: "Young people do care about politics: they just dislike it." | Economist
I see this as resulting from the way we get are information now in days. The internet has a much more global view than the local news and newspapers of just a few decades ago.
Younger people just don't have an attachment to their communities as generations passed. People are perfectly comfortable moving to cities that already share their political mindset rather than voting to change the politics at home. So yeah part of it is just being discouraged, but local politicians also need to learn how to make their positions seem relevant on global or nationwide scale to get any kind of support from young people.