The young don't reject politics, just politicians - 51,000 ignored

[dArKeR]

When a few hundred elderly people converge on a seaside town for the annual conference of the British Conservative party, all leave for Britain's journalists is cancelled. Each stave and quaver of the death rattle of a moribund movement is recorded and drummed into our ears. But when 51,000 mostly young people converge for a conference on the future of politics, they are ignored.

The European Social Forum, which ended in Paris on Nov. 16, generated just one report in the printed editions of the British mainstream press.

Doubtless the papers will inform us again this week that young people have lost interest in politics.

In one respect it is true. The young in their millions have turned away from the solipsistic pomposities of parliament, the point-scoring and willy-waving of men who have spent their lives in quadrangles and who know as much about the people they govern as US President George W. Bush knows of higher mathematics.

The young have not lost interest in politics. Politics, of the kind represented at Westminster, has lost interest in the young.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2003/11/24/2003077109

[alexwcovington]

1. Thanks!

[dArKeR]

2. For me, this is the kind of report that should be logged for a RICO suit

against the media and government puppet masters. I sure hope someone is logging!