Hey N Banana, I really do believe the next generation politically has been dumbed down by cell phone and internet, that said and I think Besty's point is, sometimes with those in the next generations, until they have their own crisis or two, they won't get it. I wish Besty was wrong but if people brought up in relative safety and privilege like we have in Canada have never really done with shortages or hardships, until they do they don't get certain things. I know myself, travelling to the third and fourth world and to certain conflict zones or other unstable regions made me see or perceive things I would not have, had I remained in Canada and I did this at 15, 16 and 17 at a time when Vietnam, Nixon were very much on everyone's mind and had made everyone cynical. So I think Besty is right. Any of us who have had children realize, you can't teach your kids life experience-you have to have faith when they encounter life, they learn from their mistakes.
Maybe I am old and bias at 63 but I just do not see Trudeau, Sheer or Singh as having had adequate life experience to run a country or understand the hardships of others. I also don't think you have to be a certain age to have experienced vital things in life either. So for example, JFK was a very young man when he got to office but he fought in a war and almost died in that war and saved a fellow seaman so to me that is a valuable life lesson about war he learned young but was really important. As much as I found Prince Philip to be a real racist dolt at times, this man survived the sinking of his ship in WW2 and kept men awake at sea until they were rescued and he served in very dangerous missions so it counts as life experience. So does Elizabeth fixing trucks and walking through the London bombings keeping people calm by herself displaying calm. I look at everyone's life experiences as much as I do their cv's and I am sorry if I was a young person, its hard to have confidence in anything our Canadian leaders who ran in this election have done.
I think there are young people who are smart, care, and will take on the mess our generations before them left. I will not write them all off anymore than my generation was written off at one point by the one before us who said we were to soft and sheltered we had never gone through a war.