Having a democracy heavily weighted in voting numbers by people with the smallest timescale left (and no prospect of being drafted into the armed forces) to consider has consequences. This compounded by the fact younger voting block often unable to spend much time in voting related activities due to working 2,3 jobs to afford the housing that cost boomers 1/2 the price in real terms, either because housing was cheaper or it was legal to live in an urban ~hovel that would now be declared violating one of a million regulations that have since been enacted.
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Having a democracy heavily weighted in voting numbers by people with the smallest timescale left (and no prospect of being drafted into the armed forces) to consider has consequences. This compounded by the fact younger voting block often unable to spend much time in voting related activities due to working 2,3 jobs to afford the housing that cost boomers 1/2 the price in real terms, either because housing was cheaper or it was legal to live in an urban ~hovel that would now be declared violating one of a million regulations that have since been enacted.