Despite classes on how the government works being pushed more in schools, people today are no better educated than those in the 1940s. There is no real desire to go and look up the information needed to be an informed citizen because there is generally no incentive to do so, not if someone is not currently being affected by the government’s actions or have already decided not to vote, because in those cases there is no real point to being informed. Another trend is that with each generation, those people become less interested in politics and the overall amount of people interested in politics is also dropping as older generations with more interests die out (Putnam,
Despite classes on how the government works being pushed more in schools, people today are no better educated than those in the 1940s. There is no real desire to go and look up the information needed to be an informed citizen because there is generally no incentive to do so, not if someone is not currently being affected by the government’s actions or have already decided not to vote, because in those cases there is no real point to being informed. Another trend is that with each generation, those people become less interested in politics and the overall amount of people interested in politics is also dropping as older generations with more interests die out (Putnam,