[gleeaikin]

I think the split was 48% stay and 52% exit. A lot of the younger vote favored staying. The younger vote is, of course, where Sanders had the most impact. Interpret that one please.

[poconopundit]

One interpretation was given Ralph Waldo Emerson in the years before the Civil War:

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, except that there are limitations, beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go. Things have their laws, as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with.

Property will be protected. Corn will not grow, unless it is planted and manured; but the farmer will not plant or hoe it, unless the chances are a hundred to one, that he will cut and harvest it.

Politics from Essays: Second Series (1844)

[The Westerner]

Gleeaiken, if your question isn’t facetious, I can explain why youth vote socialist having raised a child in the educational establishment from age 3-21. In every subject and textbook, ideology is pounded into their brains. If they don’t have alert, inexhaustible parents to deprogram them daily, they end up both unable to reason logically nor have perspective over their own brainwashed minds. It was exhausting getting a child through the system in this end stage Progressive American school system. Even if you home school, the culture these kids are steeped in is full of sly or not so sly propaganda.

And it did not get this bad only recently. I myself graduated from one of the best public schools in the 60’s primed to vote socialist after a year in college. It was only by chance I was pointed to a novel by Ayn Rand that started me down a decades long path of self-deprogramming!