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Europe’s youth don’t care to vote—but they’re ready to join a mass revolt
Quartz ^ | 28 April 2017 | Aamna Mohdin

Posted on 05/01/2017 7:33:18 PM PDT by Lorianne

Young Europeans are sick of the status quo in Europe. And they’re ready to take to the streets to bring about change, according to a recent survey.

Around 580,000 respondents in 35 countries were asked the question: Would you actively participate in large-scale uprising against the generation in power if it happened in the next days or months? More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds said yes.

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1 posted on 05/01/2017 7:33:18 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

How can a “generation” be in power?


2 posted on 05/01/2017 7:36:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lorianne

Can’t rightly blame em with their situation over there.
They’re in the same boat we are here: there is nothing to gained by voting.


3 posted on 05/01/2017 7:46:09 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Lorianne

What happens in the U.S. eventually happens in Europe. I and millions of others stopped voting in U.S. elections long ago because all the professional insider politicians from both parties were corrupt or severely inept. And the higher the office, the more corrupt/inept they’ve become.

Better of two evil my a$$.


4 posted on 05/01/2017 7:49:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Lorianne

eschewing voting for revolution is a harbinger


5 posted on 05/01/2017 7:56:30 PM PDT by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !j)
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To: Lorianne

So the French ones are voting Le Pen then?


6 posted on 05/01/2017 7:57:10 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Lorianne
Of course they're ready to 'revolt' for something they can't even wrap their Internet-addled minds around. But their lazy, ill-disciplined asses expect it to be delivered to their bedroom windows via Amazon or Google drone.


7 posted on 05/01/2017 7:57:37 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: Lorianne

Antifa in Europe.


8 posted on 05/01/2017 8:00:43 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Lorianne

I remember there were massive and violent youth protests in Switzerland a couple of decades ago. But no one could figure out why - they were wealthy as hell, at peace, and in a stable society.

The conclusion: The kids were bored...they simply had it too easy.

In this case the ‘protesters’ won’t even know why they’re protesting, and they’ll be lead like a horse into supporting the end of their societies.


9 posted on 05/01/2017 8:43:51 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Lorianne

Would you actively participate in large-scale uprising against the generation in power if it happened in the next days or months? More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds said yes. ............................ Paving the way for president Comacho?


10 posted on 05/01/2017 8:52:35 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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To: Lorianne
More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds said yes.

How many of these 18- to 34-year-olds are Muslims or illegal immigrants or both?

11 posted on 05/02/2017 2:53:31 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Lorianne

These are dangerous forms of polling.

1. All polls have someone seeking to use them as push-polls (seeking to use a poll & it’s results to influence others to join the conclusions of the poll.

2. It offers nothing as to why a younger generation is upset to begin with - too much government, too little government, too much taxation, too little government entitlement, too much regulation, too little regulation, too much capitalism, too much Marxism. How does the poll tell you WHAT the youth have against the present situation and how they wish it would go? Zip, zilch, nada.

That kind of polling is looking for and hoping for enough sheeple who will follow any “revolutionary”.

Don’t get me wrong. I understand, from MY VIEW, WHY the younger generation in Europe would be upset, but that poll tells you ONLY that they are, not why, not what they want.


12 posted on 05/02/2017 4:31:45 AM PDT by Wuli
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