Parents don’t want their kids to become politicians
Tim Chambless, a University of Utah political science professor, remembers being told
as a young boy in Houston that he could be president. He doesn’t hear parents tell
their kids that often these days. He thinks there’s been an erosion of trust in government
over time. For years, he’s asked college students in his classes what they think politics
is. The answer he gives them is “problem-solving.”
Government can solve many problems and people have been able to take hard problems to elected officials, he said, where the political process can find answers. But he thinks many Americans have become disillusioned with politics.