After taking the Pew Research: News IQ Quiz (and failing miserably) I decided to do some light research on American youth to see if I was alone in the arena of "political struggle". The youth of America is comprised of over 44 million young adults age 18-29. 93% of us have a cell phone, 88% of us are online regularly, 73% of us have a Facebook page and 31% of us use Twitter. 


These statistics suggest that we should be very connected to the world and what goes on in it. The internet is a glorious place that seems to have the answer to everything, and the vast majority of American youth have instant access to it. But for some reason we are also the demographic that seems to be least informed and least interested about politics. Our country was founded on democracy and politics generally rule everything. So why are we so connected to the world via the internet, yet so disconnected from politics? 


I personally find politics utterly boring and pretty foreign to me. Political jargon scrambles and confuses my fresh, young mind. I want to be interested, but I'm too uninformed. Lippman would agree, I'm no expert. So I (as well as 32% of American youth) leave it up to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to make me laugh while attempting to keep me politically informed. I have confidence that one day I will become politically savvy... Slowly but surely. At least for now I can sleep easy knowing I am not alone in the arena of political struggle... Many of you are with me!