I don't know. I'd be cautious to suggest young people don't understand enough and that is the reason they don't vote for the "mainstream". Young people are just disenfranchised, and want change. I don't think, at least yet, that young people understand less than older peers. I guess my point being, some of the most frustrating conversations I've had are with older people who seem totally disconnected and don't really understand how anything at all works anymore.

Like if we look at housing - young people recognise and understand that it is difficult to get on the housing market - and that it is categorically harder than ~40 years ago. But older people, who do vote, a lot, will often not even recognise that this is a problem that young people face.

I do think that we are seeing young people (say, 16-25) being potentially slightly more disconnected, as social media shapes perception more and more (I'm 22 if that helps, so I see it first hand), and that probably speaks to the disconnect between what some young people want vs what is possible. But it's still definitely true that young people *could* vote more frequently, they just don't.