I’m tired of waking up to claims that young people can’t be bothered to vote and therefore the lack of policies in our interest is our fault. Our collective weariness with an environment that does not seek to include us is often wrongly conflated with the idea that we are politically apathetic. Everyday party rhetoric, in language and content, prioritises the interests of older, middle-class white men and routinely ignores young people. But shouldn’t party politics be adapting to us; the people who will be shaping this country’s future, instead of those who will come to depend on us or already do?

Tamara-Jade Kaz in “Young Women in the UK Defy Stereotypes of Political Apathy Through Social Media” 
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