The amount of apathy for politics in America is increasing because of social trends in the younger generations; such as anarchy which is often called being a “hipster”. This is folly because many young people believe what the government does, does not affect them , or the government is corrupt to undermine the government by not voting however this is not true “by not voting people relinquish more of their rights to the government”(Colb). Many voters also do not understand their rights as a voter, if the voter does not like any candidate on the ballad they have the right to write in a name of whoever that meets the qualifications of the job on the ballad, according to twelfth amendment. The correlation between voter participation and overall satisfaction share a direct correlation each other. Since the decrease of voter participation in America satisfaction rates have drastically plummeted tremendously since the late 1980s. The included chart below created by Newport did not include in the past twenty-eight years voter participation has dramatically decreased
The amount of apathy for politics in America is increasing because of social trends in the younger generations; such as anarchy which is often called being a “hipster”. This is folly because many young people believe what the government does, does not affect them , or the government is corrupt to undermine the government by not voting however this is not true “by not voting people relinquish more of their rights to the government”(Colb). Many voters also do not understand their rights as a voter, if the voter does not like any candidate on the ballad they have the right to write in a name of whoever that meets the qualifications of the job on the ballad, according to twelfth amendment. The correlation between voter participation and overall satisfaction share a direct correlation each other. Since the decrease of voter participation in America satisfaction rates have drastically plummeted tremendously since the late 1980s. The included chart below created by Newport did not include in the past twenty-eight years voter participation has dramatically decreased