Young Brits are sore losers about #Breixt (without having bothered to vote)

Along with the shock of Brexit comes the blame game from young sore losers. As Mashable writes, one of merely many analyzing the anger, “Young Voters are blaming older generations for the Brexit result.”

Those disappointed took to Twitter, sharing how “it wasn’t fair” and “how it seems not like democracy to me[.]” Another expressed he was “actually scared” because “an older generation has voted to ruin the future for the younger generation.”

One seemed to suggest that young voters should have more say because their future will be impacted.

The vote was considered relatively close, with 48.1 percent voting to remain in the European Union and 51.9 percent voting to leave. A solution to the disgruntled youth’s problems would have been to actually vote. As is the case in the United States, however, young people didn’t vote when it came to Brexit.

The exact breakdown of votes and voter turnout is not exact. Among those young people who bothered to vote, an overwhelming amount voted to remain, including 72 percent of those 18-24 and 63 percent of those 25-34.

According to a poll that took place before the referendum, more young people refused to vote or didn’t know how they would vote than any other age group. This includes 19 percent of 18-24 years old and 17 percent of those 25-49 years old.

No wonder The New York Times and Yahoo! are calling out these young (non)voters for their “little engagement” and how “British Millennials have themselves to blame for what happened.”

In cautioning how “Brexit Is A Warning To Young American Voters,” National Memo writes that “youth turnout to vote was, perhaps predictably, low. In the largest turnout election in decades in Britain, the number of attainers, or newly eligible voters, fell by 40 percent.”

A poll from The Sunday Times showed that 22 percent of young attendees at the Glastonbury music festival did not vote, and 65 percent of those saying they wanted to vote to Remain but did not register in time

The leave outcome is being perceived as a victory for Donald Trump, and perhaps a preview. If young people want to avoid a Trump presidency, they may want to bother to show up on Election Day at the polls, in addition to social media.

Taking to social media for blaming a generation that bothers to be not only engaged voters but also informed voters may be an outlet for millennials to vent — but it does very little if anything to bring about the change they hope for.