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Originally Posted by WCan_Kid
A province of 3.5 million people electing a slightly socialist gov't is totally the same as a country of 300 million bringing in equal rights legislation and ending a brief period of alcohol prohibition.
I just think you may be overestimating the impact a handful of young Albertan's have on the rest of the planet.
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Or perhaps my view on this isn't narrowed to only youth in Alberta.
The point isn't to compare the historical relevance of these instances. It's to show that changing attitudes ultimately create change. People didn't like the way black people were treated, mostly young people, and eventually, years later, civil rights movements make a profound impact. People weren't happy with prohibition and it's affect on crime, eventually, it's gone (this is similar to the marijuana debate going on in our country right now).
The post I quoted seemed to suggest that every generation of 20 somethings thinks they can change the world (I would agree with that), and that it never happens (with which I disagree and actually would say that they always do, just maybe not in the way they intended. But the world always changes when new demographics take over positions of power).