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Originally Posted by scaeagles
So....what are HSers exposed to daily? School. MTV and the like. Video games. The mall. Sports or band practice. You think they're watching CNN or the Fox news channel? The cause is not information on current political happenings. It is a lack of historical knowledge.
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But they are exposed to more politics than we ever were. CNN, Fox News, The Daily Show, MSNBC, web blogs, the internet itself, etc...this stuff is everywhere now. Combine the readily available political information with such earth-shattering events like 9/11 and the war in Iraq and you have the most politically aware teenage generation in forever. Maybe the highschoolers during the Vietnam War era were more politically active, but they didn't have the multimedia access to information that kids today enjoy.