The common understanding about the result of the Brexit referendum is that the younger generation voted for the UK to remain part of the European Union. As to why this is likely to have been the case, look no further than what closely ties the younger generation to an institution where pro-EU sentiment dominated: public education.
Calvin Robinson (a computer science teacher) makes abundantly clear in what type of atmosphere students are educated when it comes to what opinions they ought to have about the European Union:
Over the past few weeks, I’ve witnessed teachers engaging in conversations with students about the EU referendum. Instead of encouraging students to keep an open mind, or challenging students’ perceptions, teachers have been encouraging their biases. For instance, in a recent conversation a student mentioned how close the Leave numbers were getting to taking Remain’s lead, based on polls, and a teacher’s response was “I know, it’s quite scary isn’t it?”. The teacher and student were in mutual agreement that Britain leaving the EU would be a bad thing. As far as I’m aware, that goes against part two of the Teachers’ Standards.
As people can already clearly tell what kind of political thought process is expected, and stimulated at college campuses in, say, the United States, it is really no surprise that a certain political thought process is also expected and stimulated in British schools when it comes to the question of whether the UK ought to stay in the EU or leave it.
So is it really any surprise that younger people leave these indoctrination camps being disproportionately in favor of “remain”? What exactly would be the difference, in terms of influencing students’ thinking and trying to get a predetermined and desired result, between this and the educational system being dominated by Nigel Farage/Brexit sympathizers doing the same thing for the benefit of Brexit sentiment? Of course, in the latter case, the entire pro-EU camp would be in a massive uproar about the political brainwashing that would be occurring in the educational system.
In this case, however, it is (of course) not regarded as indoctrination, and the expected result of young generations being disproportionally in favor of “Remain” is regarded as a reason to listen to them, precisely because they are the “future generation” and therefore their opinions should be considered more valuable than that of all others. Even though their opinions have clearly been ‘massaged’ into them by an older generation of pro-EU leftists in the education system, but also media and the political establishment (in the latter case i include pro-EU “conservatives”).
I’m sure this older generation of pro-EU leftists would have like nothing more than for the opinions of ‘future generations’ to hold more weight than the opinions of other generations, so that the results of their indoctrination itself would, by definition, also hold more weight. Wouldn’t that be just swell for the brain washing squad in the UK’s schools? Imagine what their educational strategy could accomplish if what students who are still in school -or just got out of it – believe, would hold more weight in important political decisions.
In all of this, it is never properly explained why, if the younger British generation loves the EU so much, and hates the supposedly rampant “xenophobia” of the UK so much, they don’t all migrate to a EU country of their choosing. Certainly, EU countries rejecting their potential massive immigration could not possibly have anything to do with it. The doors are wide open.
The obvious answer is that the point is not for pro-EU people to feel satisfied themselves by being in any EU country. The point is to try and ensure that all those who do not want any part of the EU still get this undemocratic monster shoved down their throats, including all of its cultural “enrichments” in the form of mass immigration, its hostility toward Russia, its continent-level attempt to foster “world government” ideology, and it nation-level socialism of rich nations paying the way for poorer nations. The point is not for those in favor of the EU to bask in the glory of the European ‘family’, but for UK society to be transformed, along with the societies other EU nations, into the type of societies desired by pro-EU people. Nobody is stopping the youngsters from going to the party. But they are telling them that they don’t get to drag those that don’t want to, kicking and screaming along with them to a place of coke-snorting, money-burning, elitist, undemocratic, politics-lecturing assholes.
The point is a similar one to communists wanting the Soviet Union to spread their sick ideology and political system all over Eastern Europe, rather than limiting it to populations who actually want it and for communists to then move there to glory in the magnificence of the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
This isn’t about what’s ‘best’ for the UK’s younger generation. This is about imposing the damn thing on ALL generations.
And in that case what the younger generation wants is completely irrelevant, and should be treated as such.