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‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics | Semafor (www.semafor.com)

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Young voters overwhelmingly believe that almost all politicians are corrupt and that the country will end up worse off than when they were born, according to new polling from Democratic firm Blueprint obtained exclusively by Semafor.

The sour mood points to potential trouble for Joe Biden, who is struggling with Gen Z and younger Millennials in polls compared with 2020, and needs to convince them he can be relied on to improve their lives.

As part of the online poll of 943 18-30-year-old registered voters, Blueprint asked participants to respond to a series of questions about the American political system: 49% agreed to some extent that elections in the country don’t represent people like them; 51% agreed to some extent that the political system in the US “doesn’t work for people like me;” and 64% backed the statement that “America is in decline.” A whopping 65% agreed either strongly or somewhat that “nearly all politicians are corrupt, and make money from their political power” — only 7% disagreed.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

No surprise there.

In the first place, the US is in decline, and most US politicians are corrupt. So it simply and obviously makes sense for people to agree with those statements.

Beyond that, it's most likely that one would get agreement from the youngest generations, since they're least likely to already be so deeply a part of the existing system that they have a vested interest in pretending otherwise.