Young voters have never been the largest voting group … and, quite frankly, I’m OK with that.  For the most part, younger voters are ill informed and lack the rationalization, logical thinking skills and judgment necessarily to form an informed opinion.  This is not just my opinion; there have been hosts of studies by people who study these sorts of things.  Just Google “brain not fully developed until age 25” and you’ll see what I’m talking about.  It can vary by a few years, but let’s go with mid-twenties.

Now we have the New York Times is lamenting that young people aren’t are excited about Dear Ruler as they were in 2008.  Can you feign shock?  Last time around, young people voted for Barack Obama because it was the cool thing to do.  He was a blank canvas upon which they could paint their adolescent hopes and dreams.  They had grown up in a pop star, American Idol, celebrity-worship culture, but never before had they seen a celebrity embodied in a politician … until Barack Obama.  Now, the celebrity worship has worn off and reality has kicked in.  Those same young people who voted for Obama over John McCain by 68% to 30% are up to their eyeballs in student loans, living with their parents and unable to find the jobs they feel they are owed because they achieved the task of graduating from college.

So now it seems that youth voter apathy has set in once again.  I would say that the level of enthusiasm has simply returned to normal.  The election in 2008 was a fluke.  Young people are back to not caring.  However, if they do somewhat care about politics, it gets even worse for liberals.  According to interview, experts and recent polls, first time voters in November are less enthusiastic about Obama and “are significantly more likely to identify as conservative and cite a growing lack of faith in government in general.”  Don’t ya just know that printing that in the New York Times had to send some proggie panties to the dry cleaners … they can’t understand how young people could be conservative and why wouldn’t they love our wonderful, entitlement-providing imperial federal government?  Clearly our government education system must be failing!

I will say this: restoring a faith in the functionality of our system of government is imperative, because without a system of laws and the participation of educated citizens, our country would fall into chaos or fascism.  Take your pick.  Right now we are headed toward fascism.  Engagement is key in order to hold politicians’ feet to the fire.  It’s not that I don’t like government; I don’t like the worshiping of government and its political hacks as Gods with the solutions to all of our answers.  And I don’t like those who seek power simply to keep power, and will achieve that power by promising to use the police power of the government to take property away from those who earned it and give it to those who are dependent on government for survival.

And one more thing, to stir the puddin’ … the New York Times also points out that young white voters actually favor Mitt Romney.  In 2008, young people were enlightened.  In 2012, are they now raaaacists?