I find it interesting how young voters can sometimes make mistakes. But they seem quick to react and correct things, not hanging onto bad ideas that can become entrenched.

My paradigm example of the enlightened young, is a group known as the League of Young Voters. Their issues statement from last cycle, 2008, is online, here.

http://theleague.com/issues

One interesting observation, every one of their issues remain as strong or stronger, two years later. With GOP opposition and Blue Dog barking, getting things fixed is very, very, very, very vexing and hard. But the young do have energy and enthusiasm. And surely this site, going into 2010, proves some of them have brains enough to know who is suggesting policies in their best interest instead of allowing themselves to be deceived by any vanilla "Trust trickle down" rhetoric that only fools buy into and only shills proclaim.

So why do I say this particular group is a paradigm of not being too proud to admit big-time mistake?

I use a screen shot to show them being able, willing, and even eager to say "Well, I was really wrong;" and the screenshot involves looking back no further than the quite recent history of 2008, specifically, this admission of, hey we did not know what we were stepping into, but we are most certainly now wiping our shoes clean (as always click to enlarge and read):

A hope of mine would be that redistricting puts my home in Ellison's district, not Oberstar's, because Ellison had the courage to face overwhelming wealth, and sponsor "too big to fail" reform legislation, of the form, too big to stay that big - since it is against sane regulatory policy to have entities so large that they threaten to disrupt the fabric of the economy unless paid bribe money when their mischief brought distress, foreclosure, and record joblessness not seen since the big Depression upon us all, i.e., the Bush-Paulson-Bernanke bailout of Wall Street during the lame-duck months of Bush's eight year stint of economic non-policy.

And seeing that young activist group contemplating moving into 2010 politics is a reaffirmation of my belief that very, very few educated, thinking young people will be lured into the trap of buying into divisive generational divide-and-conquer mongering by those who only have their own best interests and personal ambition at heart, and are using a ploy to splinter opposition to the flawed status quo of wealthy white men [can you say Karl Rove, can you say George H.W. Bush] running things for everyone else to suffer through. May the enlightened young prosper.

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screenshot, this link