Wow, so salty. Look, I was/am firmly in the remain camp. In part, I BLAME your age group for the result which you are now so saddened by. Most of your age bracket did not even vote in the referendum - if your age bracket did not care enough before, why such disgust now? As such, your generation has no right to bellyache about a decision they opted out of influencing when they KNEW they could have had a major impact on it in advance. If your generation felt so strongly, maybe they should have voted in order to get the result they wanted. Heck, it should surprise NOBODY that the older generation would vote for a leave vote (polling told us this), and that they would turn out in large numbers (history tells us this). Did... did your demographic think it would go the way they wanted without acting upon those desires? Let us hope they learn their lesson.
So, two things. First, the people in that age group who
did vote have every right to be upset. With the ones who didn't, perhaps, but getting annoyed at the ones who voted is rather dumb.
Second, the forebrain isn't fully developed until around 25. Myelination, which is an important part of cognitive ability for both essentially everything but particularly reasoning, is yet to really finish coating everything until that point. And democracy doesn't just depend on a large voterbase, it relies on an informed voterbase, one that cares enough to do research on the issues, rather than take whatever politicians/media says at face value (unless, of course, they happen to be honest), and it relies on one that can actually communicate with the other side on each other's viewpoints so thst you can grind closer to truth or optimization or what-have-you. So young people not voting as much isn't as terrible as people think. I say this as a young voter, too.
Republics tend to be much better, in a way, for that sort of thing, less subject to fickle whims of the masses, but more easily corrupted. Democratic republics are attempts to get the best of both worlds, but they still rely on voter investment in the system.
And it's rather hard to be invested in voting when it means you might have to, say, take a day off work that you can't afford to with your rent. Old people are at least as vulnerable as young, if not more so, when it comes to the government's effect on them(the very old, that is, not the 40-50). They are far less vulnerable to market influences, however. *shrug*