The Fresh Politics Reader

the long version

You think about politics a lot. Are you confounded by how under-30 voters turn out? There’s some truth and a lot of B.S. in the prevailing wisdom that we all hear.And the B.S. is piling up. Political consultants wax up their battlefield tactics and political pundits dust off their cliches. Young voters are apathetic. They’re pacifists. They get their news from music videos and comedians. They whine about no good jobs. They trend Left on issues but Right on personalities.American readers and voters deserve better than this. They need practical insights how young people think about politics.Taylor Buley delivers some of these insights in his new book THE FRESH POLITICS READER: Making Current Events and Public Affairs Relevant to Young Americans (Silver Lake Publishing, 2006).Buley’s conclusions are simple and strong. He’s refined them on the political Web site he founded—www.freshpolitics.us. And he knows what he’s talking about.He’s 20 years old.