This really surprised me

There will always be young people who don’t follow current events. Nothing new. They are just in their own little world. I wonder if they even vote.

I have a friend in her mid forties who says she will vote with her DH, because he knows things .

I always get upset when I hear women say they are not interested in politics or that they don’t know anything about politics. Unfortunately it happens rather too often.

I truly can’t think of the last time I overheard the news, though.

I have never been in a restaurant or bar that had the news playing. Most people don’t just watch tv - they stream - so you don’t flip channels or see commercials.

And she doesn’t use social media.

I can't imagine being that clueless about what is going on in your city, state, country or the world--not just politically but any other current events.  I could see how you might be happier that way, until one of those issues affects you personally.  A sort of privilege, I guess.  

It's also quite common here for the TV to be set on news stations at the doctors office, restaurants (unless it's sports), hotels, etc.  

My 26yo daughter has always been very engaged about politics. My 19yo son couldn't give two hoots. But even he knows that trump is running again, and we're in another country.

My co-worker is in her 50s. She does not keep up with current events. She doesn't watch tv. Most of our music stations here don't really cover things like that. The only way she has any idea what's going on in the world is from her husband (who's a teacher) or one of us in the office.

I don't believe this at all. What I do believe is she clearly doesn't want to talk politics with you.

The only people who can afford to not follow current events or politics are people with privilege.

I know men who vote the way their wives tell them to, though.

I'm not surprised. I have a friend in her 60's who is incredibly uninformed about politics, pop culture, local news - all of it.

How do you know she’s on the internet?

She could be texting or playing a game app.

She could be shopping in an app.

I think the peas would be really surprised to know how easy it is to avoid any news at all.

We never listen the the radio, we stream music, so we don’t hear anything there.
We don’t watch tv, we stream, so no news on NETFLIX or D+.

Kids are homeschooled.

We don’t do much YouTube.

We aren’t in waiting rooms where we would see or hear a tv.
We don’t have cable, so no cable news.

You can set your internet homepage to whatever you want it to be, so you don’t necessarily see news just because you open a browser.
Even if you do open a yahoo or google home page, what you see is determined by your browsing history, so if I’ve never clicked or searched anything related to politics or current events, you are unlikely to have those articles pop up on your suggested stories.

I think the peas would be very surprised how different other people’s daily exposure to news is.

When we were married, I’d only remind my ex to vote if I thought he was going to vote the way I was otherwise I’d just be encouraging him to cancel my vote.

Yes, he could get so busy he would not get home from work in time to vote without a reminder. 🙄