You’ll have to forgive us if our politicking gets a bit old. Fear not, Daily faithful — the end is near.

We don’t blame you for not caring, we’d be awfully hypocritical if we did. It’s not that you aren’t concerned with what’s happening to the country, it’s just that we’re not sure what we can do about it. As a culture, we’ve been told our entire lives what precious little snowflakes we are and about the wonders of Democracy. Maybe it’s that we’ve grown accustomed to the round-the-clock coverage of our political quagmire —nonstop partisan bickering with no end in sight.

We were just as jazzed to vote for Obama as the next person, that’s for sure. In retrospect, the prospect of one man bringing change to the upper echelons of the political elite seems like a naive, almost grade-school notion, but back in 2008, we couldn’t be stopped. Maybe it was the overwhelming discontent with the Bush policies on … well … everything … but for a few measly months there, we were all doing it —we actually cared about the electoral process.

It’s not that we don’t care, it’s just that politics have been so hyper-polarized lately we’ve become cynical about the process itself. In 2004, the only thing more difficult than voting to retain George W. Bush as commander-in-chief was voting for John Kerry to take the helm. In 2010, the same kind of indifference still exists.

Asking a complete stranger we’ve only met through debates and TV ads to represent popular sentiment on a national level is always a bit of a stretch. There’s always been a substantial generation gap between career politicians and the college demographic, but in the era of YouTube and smart phones, it’s all the more apparent.

It’s amusing, in a ha-ha funny sort of sense, to watch politician’s attempts at rallying the youth vote. Thanks to social media slowly usurping the last vestiges of our residual humanity, you’ll find most politicians on Facebook or Twitter. This says something about the sad state of interpersonal communication, but even more about just how out-of-touch your average politician is. Apparently, between creeping on the girl from your survey class and your crops in Farmville, you’re going to want to know what Leonard Boswell or Steve King think about global warming.

We have the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips on a daily basis, and odds are most of us can’t name our Senator or Congressman. Do you have any idea who’s running for Iowa Senate in your district? Do you care? Probably not.

Despite what John Q. Politician’s Twitter feed says, our political hang-ups will probably continue to fall on deaf ears. We’ll be told to shut up and enjoy our tuition hikes. We’ll probably be told it could be a lot worse, never mind that it’s increasing twice as fast as regular inflation. We’ll have a laugh at the Proposition 19 vote, even if it passes, but most of us know the federal government isn’t about to stand for that.

People that want change — real change — in politics are labeled “radicals” and cast aside. Ron Paul has become the model candidate for a modern-day grassroots political movement, largely thanks to the Internet, yet was still given “fringe” treatment during the Republican debates.

It’s out of our hands, folks. “Business as usual” might become a pejorative term during an election year, but politics has a long way to go before we can expect anything less.

This is where you come in, the youth. If you aren’t happy with where we are headed, do what you can to change it. The first and foremost thing you should do is vote.

The politicians didn’t reach you. Maybe it’s time for you to reach them.