The Junior Electorate:

It's no accident that Justin Trudeau was elected almost 50 years after his father, Pierre Elliott. Both were elected by the element in Canada's electorate that had not yet reached a fair level of maturity.

Fifty years ago was the time when the great mass of Baby Boomers first became eligible to vote. Five years ago is when the new section of immature voters, who viewed society mostly through the virtual reality of their cell phones, became eligible to elect leaders only they could identify with.

The Baby Boomers came in on a tide of hippiedom, substance abuse, social chaos and youthful energy. They saw nothing wrong in voting for a man who, unlike nearly everyone else in his generation, managed to avoid going to fight for his country during the war.

The generation that elected another Trudeau half a century later neither knew this nor cared. Nor did they care about the cost of such every-day necessities as shelter, food, taxes, utilities, and everything else their parents provided for them, no questions asked. Reality was not a required part of the picture.

They were offered a leader who saw nothing wrong with a return to hippiedom's psychedelics and was part of their picture.

Now, we have one of Trudeau's Liberal elections officials speculating on dropping the voter age down a couple more years, thus dumbing down the electorate still further.

Voters who cannot see problems with the direction where this is heading are definitely part of the problem.