Why millennials are dropping out – UnHerd

Political alienation is at a high. As headlines proclaim disaster after disaster, from the pandemic to recession to the climate apocalypse ,  people are losing their faith in the future. In the US, public trust in government is lower today than it was after Watergate, and Americans are disengaging massively from politics on social media and cable news. In the world s democracies, voter turnout has dropped from an average 80% in the Eighties to closer to 60% today. More than half of that decline reflects generational change. In the US, for instance, citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 typically turn out at a rate more than 10 points lower than those over the age of 30.

via unherd.com