Is pop politics really the answer?


I REFER to the news that Finland’s transport and communications minister has been selected to lead the Social Democratic Party, therefore making her the world’s youngest prime minister. This has been taken to mean a “new dawn” of politics is upon us.

It seems that politics has turned into something of a game of youth. This is perhaps due in part to the rise of socially-driven politics, a stripped-down, bare-essentials form of politics and (very likely) social media. If one were to study recently elected, young prime ministers, ministers and/or political representatives in general, they all seem to have similarities in that they are proponents of what appears to be “pop politics”.

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