Depressingly, according to Rob Henderson, the number of incoming
college students who describe their political beliefs as “far left” has tripled
since the early 1980s, and doubled since 2013. Alas, it's all a very deliberate ploy from the state, of course.
Think of it this way. Arguments frequently erupt about whether 16 year olds should be allowed to
vote. Most left-leaning people habitually say yes, most others say no. The
majority of young people vote for left wing parties, so the bias of the two
contrasting positions is obvious. Left-leaning politicians want young people to
have the vote so they can secure more votes.
I once explained why women tend to be more left wing, but alas, the reason I think young people also tend to be more left wing is much more disturbing and disheartening. The cynical answer, which I also think is the truest, is twofold: it's that young people have fewer responsibilities and not much capital, so they don't feel many of the costs of left wing policies (although even that impression is less true than young people think). And it's also the case that very young people are ripe for indoctrination, and the education system plays on this (as anyone who has been to a protest rally would have witnessed).
I believe it is very much the fault of the schools and universities at a proximal level, but it's also more distally a product of the establishment that has a significant deleterious effect on young people's education. I think whenever you observe significant shifts in the zeitgeist, whereby something is very noticeable (which in itself is unusual, as things usually manifest in a creeping fashion), you have to look for a top down influence, because bottom up influences don't usually show up on the radar this way (occasionally they do, but not often).
The surge in young voters
in the past few years is symptomatic of a mass indoctrination program by the
left, to take their thoughts captive when they're young, and keep them for as
long as possible until they (or at least some of them) grow up and learn how to
think more proficiently. Didn't you find it strange that the parties who support votes for children are Labour, Liberal Democrats, Green Party, the SNP, and Plaid Cymru? It's all very deliberate, you know.
That's why the left wants to lower the voting age to 16, to
catch even more pliable young minds and enmesh them in their net. This is
because for the past couple of decades (at least) the establishment is potentially
vulnerable to opposing ideas and movements that occur in a more globalised
nexus of interconnectedness. That is, influential ideas, in favour of the
establishment and against it, are going to manifest with an exponential curve,
not a linear one. Consequently, the establishment has driven its agenda to
start on schoolchildren when they are young, and mould them in the
establishment fashion through the rest of their education, and later in university
too.
And because the state operates in loco parentis, it tends to become coterminous with actual parental influence/family too - so the child has even greater difficulty escaping the often subtle, sometimes explicit manipulations. There are many elements to the agenda - a lot of it is a Stockholm syndrome-type conditioning to make the impressionable young things believe they should love the authorities and delegate personal freedoms to their leading players. Then there are veiled threats bound up in identity politics, and group identification, and a whole host of other things that are complex and probably require a whole book of thoughts for me to jot down.
The upshot is, the top down cause is a systematic drive by the establishment to manipulate the young into exactly the kind of pliable, conformist citizens the establishment wants them to be. And that is the principal reason why left wing politicians are always championing the lowering of the voting age to 16, and why the number of young people who describe their political beliefs as “far left” is increasing to the levels it has been.
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