A source: svoboda.org
Minus 12 million voters
Difficult to define, did Mikhail Leontiev think, professional journalist and winner of the Golden Pen of Russia award, about the consequences of such statements.. Verbatim:
“We will face the need to disenfranchise young people, probably, in the near future. Because otherwise we will lose the country. It's true. Because these people don't know anything., it's almost Ukraine, monstrous... Because youth is a painful condition, that fades with age.
Leontiev has an extensive track record and public experience. That's why I believe, that he considered every word, that the scandalous statement was not impromptu. The option of voicing some collective opinion regarding the sanity of young people is not excluded.. reconnaissance, so to speak.
The consequences of such sayings, not the last person in a large state corporation, make one think. To begin, perhaps, worth it, that Mr. Leontiev actually spat on the school system. If to 2020 year, according to top manager, young people have forgotten how to distinguish between good and evil, liars and righteous, then worthless to teachers and the entire Russian school.
We move further along the logical chain. TO 25 for years, young people are not able to consciously choose the leaders of their own state and lawmakers. Not only that, 100% youth behind the school, so a considerable proportion of citizens have higher education and experience in military service. State structures failed to form a critical civic position of a young man? Then questions about the viability of these institutions: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, as well as the Ministry of Defense. Why are you so bad 25 years worked (least), that Mikhail Leontiev compares our youth with Ukrainian?
By the way, conclusions about the development of Ukrainian youth from a person look strange, to which 2006 year banned entry to Ukraine. Much more professional to talk about, what you understand and do not row everyone with the same brush.
A source: ru.wikipedia.org
Mikhail Leontiev on the radio, Unfortunately, did not fully reveal the reasons for such rejection of young people. There was an attempt on the air to connect the imperfection of youth with ignorance of national history, but this, honestly, cheap argument. story, as is known, discipline is very slippery, and always in such cases it is necessary to clarify, who tells the story. If in the version of Mr. Leontiev, the, of course, it would be better not to know. AND, the most important thing: what should change in the "dark historians" to 25 years? They must see?
Leontiev's thesis "because these people know nothing" is very extensive and does not give a clear idea of the level of our youth.. What should they know? Fundamentals of Democracy, the right to freedom of speech, the right to peaceful protest - this is what modern youth has already understood, including through school subjects: social science and law. It is not news for the younger generation and a special attitude in our country to these concepts. obviously, this is the main idea - to limit the suffrage to those, who have already figured everything out and put it on the shelves for themselves. People up 25 years, usually, have two disadvantages: they have a heightened sense of justice and have little to lose. Passing this age, many young people start families, permanent job, have children, and this makes them conformists to a certain extent. Mikhail Leontiev, obviously, really want, so that it is precisely such “accommodating” people who go to vote in the first place. And youth from 18 to 25 years with us, by the way, the country around 12 millions. And they are trying to exclude all of them from the electoral process..
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Adults rule
Expressions, discrediting the honor and dignity of an entire generation: it is with this wording that one could start a hypothetical trial of Mikhail Leontiev. Still the situation, when a 61-year-old man speaks so vilely of an entire generation and considers youth a disease, looks like a litigation. One of the problems of many "successful" people at this age is excessive egocentrism.. Such consider, what exactly is their life experience, established views come to the fore. Through the prism of their lives they see the whole world, consider themselves to be the very salt of the earth. Mikhail Leontiev, according to his biography, searched for his purpose in life until 27 years. First graduated from Plekhanov University, then he suddenly became a cabinet maker and only in the late 80s did he understand, that his true calling is in journalism. Now it is clear, why all the youth 25 years seems to Leontiev inferior and incapable of a conscious choice ...
If you break away from the personality of the press secretary of Rosneft, desperately protecting his assets with such statements, the situation will be even more dramatic. It is logical to assume, that the ban on voting before 25 years is somehow related to life expectancy in the country. By analogy with the extension of the retirement age. If we increase life expectancy, the, quite possibly, lengthens the period of maturation. Such a relationship is quite possible.. The speed of technological progress is accelerating, the world around is becoming more complex and people need more and more time to fully analyze the situation. However, this is not entirely true for our country.. For many reasons, the average life expectancy in Russia lags behind developed countries and roughly corresponds to North Africa and South America.. And with technological progress, as we know, not all is well in Russia: For many decades, the country has been classified as a developing country. Therefore, we dismiss the demographic reason for Leontiev's initiative..
The very reason for the introduction of the age limit for elections, obviously, not fully understood by Leontiev. It is no coincidence that the notorious qualification in Russia coincides with the age of majority. To 18 years, a person is still under the care of parents and after this age, theoretically, he should take care of himself. And taking care of yourself, among other things, is the power to choose, which will create appropriate conditions for young people: decent jobs, infrastructure, healthcare and so on. Ideally, parties in the struggle for getting into the legislative and executive bodies will have to take into account the interests of those, to whom from 18 to 25 years. Otherwise, they will lose a considerable part of the electorate. Let's, that Leontiev's initiative will be supported and let into the polling stations will 25 years. From now on, no party will be interested in the problems of this age category of the country's inhabitants.: why is it, if they don't vote? It will lead to, in its turn, towards the marginalization of youth. If there are no legal levers of influence on the authorities, they will find illegal. How can you not remember, that people with the "disease of youth" in Russia are about 12 millions!
A source: istoriarusi.ru
But this, of course, extreme scenario of the development of the situation. The emergence of a new gerontocracy in Russian power structures is much more likely, which our country has already passed. Youth under the age of 25 years, which, as we already found out, no one needs it, no longer interested in government affairs, politics and go in cycles in their mercantile problems. it, in its turn, will cause an acute shortage of personnel in government and party structures, which the children of current leaders will not be able to fully satisfy. The average age in the leadership of the country will grow rapidly, and Russia will plunge into the era of gerontocracy. maybe, Mr. Leontiev is quite satisfied with this scenario.
Mikhail Leontiev can only be advised to clarify one truth: as soon as in the younger generation you start to see only idiots, who know nothing, time to retire immediately.
The voice of the people
Leontiev, of course, got excited. I gave up such a juicy reason to gloat over the recently overheated liberal and opposition public. And here is a small selection of the most thoughtful and verified answers to the press secretary of Rosneft.
“Rosneft press secretary proposes to deprive Russian youth of voting rights, because otherwise people like him will lose the country. Well, at least he honestly said ... Tomorrow he will offer to physically eliminate the youth of Russia. ”.
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“An interesting initiative against the backdrop of the situation, when senators and deputies of the State Duma proposed to extend the youth age right up to 35 years. Who's left to vote then?? However, with the latest legislative innovations, it is no longer so important, almost to "no difference".
“Somehow unconstitutional ... It seems like children are now the main asset of the country. And as soon as this property grows up, it turns into social garbage..
"Apparently, person, who classified his income, do not understand young people from ordinary families of workers, whose parents work for 15,000 rubles a month and are, according to Putin, middle class. About paid, unnecessary education for employers, about the low standard of living - if you can find a job, a 30-40% youth in Russia unemployed. Probably, for all this, young people must love power, according to official. But it is not so. Because of the problem, which the authorities do not intend to solve, young people are going into opposition more and more”.
“On the already dead electoral system just the other day the State Duma drove, by adopting a law on three days of voting. clear, that in specific Russian conditions this is an additional tool for falsification. Now here is Leontiev ... drove on the same topic. maybe, the issue of the final transfer of the institution of voting to an imitation format is being resolved. Hence the sudden and feverish activity. About youth Leontiev, of course, right. She is almost completely disloyal to the Kremlin regime.. And something needs to be done about it…”
Yevgeny Fyodorov
