Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
That's pessimistic, doesn't mean you're wrong though. But don't surveys suffice for a "better view of the electorate"? What is the distinct advantage to having 18-25 year olds represented? gaelic suggests something, but if people are just voting to serve themselves in his theory than so will young people. And if we have a culture of selfish voting, then people should have more time separate from their self voting parents before voting themselves. My argument is based on the idea that it would change people's voting styles, not just that 18 year olds make semi-blind votes.
Bums on seats. In other words because surveys do not confer a political seat, they can and will be ignored: specifically because in such a scenario the opinion of 18-25 year olds would not only be a minority opinion (by definition the 18-25 year olds are a small group relatively to those aged 25 and onwards) but also a minority opinion without political clout. There already is a strong tendency to ignore the younger members of society in favour of older generations.

Self interest changes over time, voting for your own self interest has been done since time immemorial. It's nothing to do with living in the basement of your mum, it's everything to do with a basic question: what's in it for me?