The screenshot is from a poll conducted by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Fabian Society and mirrors what we have been saying since May 2009 - that those who most are, and will be, suffering or enjoying the consequences of decisions made now are not represented in the institutions that are making them. As the report puts as clearly as possible:
Old people, lucky enough to have lived lives immeasurably better than any generation in the history of the earth, clinging to power at the expense of the young. This 61 year-old finds the whole performance disgusting.“It is younger people who will have to live with the consequences of whatever decisions politicians and perhaps the public may take on our EU membership. On balance, 18 to 34 year-olds support a European future for Britain and this should weigh heavily on the minds of older age-groups when they consider how they would vote in any referendum."
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Funkadelic saw it coming in 1972 man.
Wasn't it The Parliaments?
You might want to check this technical analysis program: http://www.cognitum-research.com/en/wave-explorer
What does it do? The documentation seems a little scant.
Love the penultimate sentence.
See the intergenerational tensions everywhere, but the consequences seem to tend towards apathy rather than action amongst the Gen X & Y ers.
JL
Probably cause boomers continue to occupy the moral high ground.
Thx
This finding may also be relevant in how the younger Catalan voters in an independence referendum would view the outcome of a yes-vote. It may thus be what swings the sentiment towards a no-vote when asked how to vote if Catalonia would not continue witin the EU.
Yup, that too.
Haven't heard from you in a couple of years. Now three in a day.
Well... I guess I must have been well medicated for once.
I´d rather trust the 50 plus who have lived the pre-EU and EU. I guess they feel the EU ain´t that great.
Yeah, well. Have you ever met anyone over 50 who didn't think the past was better than the present?
Dropped the 'anon' bit, have we?
that may be true.
not sure what you mean about "anon".
A more rose tinted view of humanity would think that older age groups were thinking about younger people when they cast their vote but that they think they the younger generation are misguided in their opinion and need protecting from themselves.
Yes, there is that component, too. Reflected in huge increase in +40 yo female work force.
Same problem. We want the natural profligates to have money - and it isn't happening.
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