The president and a couple of other positions are actually just there to appease the public. The president could not possibly have an expertise in all of them. A registered Republican, Zinzer can't name a political figure who has excited him. Reagan left office after the 1988 election, when Zinzer was 17. Zinzer, whose parents divorced when he was 8, doesn't understand what government has to do with it.
Religion deals with that more than politics actually does.
For a generation that grew up with high divorce rates, corporate mergers and high-paced technological advances, change is one of the few constants in their lives. Then the recession hit, she said, and a college degree didn't guarantee a high-paying job. Some of them watched their parents climb the career ladder, she said, only to find that they're miserable as vice presidents of corporations. None of this is to say that young voters are bemoaning the pace of change today. I want to be able to keep up with that.