Millennials and Gen Zs are increasingly crucial in elections. After feeling detached from the political process, they now have the numbers to influence outcomes. But will they?
Millennials and Gen Zs are increasingly crucial in elections. After feeling detached from the political process, they now have the numbers to influence outcomes. But will they?
Young people appear dissatisfied with the status quo, and are ready for change. As the contours of a new political landscape take shape the question for the political establishment is if they will be offered idealistic leaders promising to mend the political divides or be further drawn to charismatic populists eager to reshape the world in their own image.
It is a generation which is voting more, but also increasingly toward political extremes.
Speaking to 360info’s Leave it to the Experts podcast, Dr David Blunt from The University of Sydney, says this is due to a set of baked-in inequalities that are diminishing young people’s power in public life to the point where they feel that the game is against them entirely.
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