For most teenagers tuning into the news is almost as bad as slowly pushing toothpicks into their eyes. Through the 5678 channels I have on my television, why would I watch the news to hear about presidential elections? I'm pretty sure most teenagers only know President Obama is our president because the line "my president is black" has been rapped about in some form in almost every song since 2008. Do I hate it? No. But do I really care whose president? No! I know its awful because we're supposed to be aware of whose running our country, but politics is filled with more bullshit than a Thanksgiving Turkey.
A teenager's top priorities revolve around getting their license and being able to drink legally. Is it fact? I mean, I didn't see it written in a textbook but I'm sure if you stopped and asked a kind teenager on the streets or perhaps to a look at the wonderful invasive world of twitter you'd stumble upon something of that nature. We should take an interest in our President, but the sad fact is, we probably won't.
It's truly an endless cycle when dealing with politics that goes something like this:
Child- "I want the one who has the elephant next to his name, because I like elephants!"
Teenager- "Oh, so that's why we have off in November. I thought it was one of those teachers conference things. I guess I'll go with the one who has the jackass next to his name. Ha, jackass."
Younger Adult- "I want the democrat! He has some pretty good ideas about running this country."
Older Adult- "Holy Shit, I'm going to be working until I'm 80 at this rate...which one of those idiots will actually do something to help?"
Senior Citizen- "We need that fine Republican to run our country. He's going to help us elderly people out instead of helping those bastards living off our dime!"
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