Young Americans have no faith in the nation’s future, according to a new survey. Democratic polling firm Blueprint asked 943 registered voters aged 18-30 a series of questions about the US political system, and 64% of them believe that America is in decline. Forty-nine percent agreed that elections don’t represent people like them, and 51% said the political system in general “doesn’t work for people like me.”
“Nearly all politicians are corrupt, and make money from their political power” was backed by 65% of respondents, with just 7% disagreeing. There’s not a lot of ambiguity to these numbers. “I think these statements blow me away, the scale of these numbers with young voters,” Blueprint lead pollster Evan Roth Smith said. “Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.”
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