That may be true, but unless the environment of your childhood taught you to see beyond words to find the underlying truths, it's hardly something to chide young adults about.
I was lucky in life in one aspect: the behaviour of the Labour Party-voting members of my family was so inconsistent with the purported values of the Party that it was obvious to me that what people said and what they actually did very rarely coincided. That led me to explore what other parties had to say, not in the bipartisan (I'm not Labour, so I must be Conservative) nonsensical way, rather to focus on what political, familial and societal principles I actually believed in and then to look at what overlap those had with what political parties had to say.
It's very, very difficult to gain a true understanding of the wider sweeps of society, of politics and of economics, without having lived through at least one economic/political cycle. It's equally hard to work out how to move beyond win-lose politics, unless there are communities engaging in the same challenging struggle.
That may be true, but unless the environment of your childhood taught you to see beyond words to find the underlying truths, it's hardly something to chide young adults about.
I was lucky in life in one aspect: the behaviour of the Labour Party-voting members of my family was so inconsistent with the purported values of the Party that it was obvious to me that what people said and what they actually did very rarely coincided. That led me to explore what other parties had to say, not in the bipartisan (I'm not Labour, so I must be Conservative) nonsensical way, rather to focus on what political, familial and societal principles I actually believed in and then to look at what overlap those had with what political parties had to say.
It's very, very difficult to gain a true understanding of the wider sweeps of society, of politics and of economics, without having lived through at least one economic/political cycle. It's equally hard to work out how to move beyond win-lose politics, unless there are communities engaging in the same challenging struggle.