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You have two questions. To answer the first, what will it take to end military funding, interventionism, and youth registration (that last bit makes this seems like a biased question from the get-go):Peace. Global, universal peace, with no peoples subject to another. No one stomping on the grasping fingers of the starving. Even then, fear of alien invasion might be enough to keep funding going.For your section question, California is a state with a liberal skin, but bones and muscle of militarism. California is first and foremost about business. It’s a lovely place to live and protest, but that requires a running economy. That economy runs in part on bullets. In 2006, California received over $36 billion for military contracts. Virginia was $33 billion and Texas received $30 billion. No other state is over $12 billion. When compared to the total money from the Federal government that has gone to the golden state, it is 76% of the total. The military owns California and leases it to the feel-good crowd, blithely unaware they drive on roads paved with strife.So, it’s all fun and nice to tout the liberal line, but it’s overshadowed by the bottom line. Those on the far left who know this will push only so far, fearful of having to return to those Wisconsin winters.Federal Procurement Data

Though to find out the true number of total youth hockey players by gender across the world you’d likely have to go to each countries’ individual youth hockey organization and ask for their enrollment stats (which would be extremely painstaking), there are some tools you can look up that give you pretty close estimates.Here’s a chart from an article on a website called statista that shows the enrollment numbers across many hockey playing countries from the 2014–15 season:As you can see Canada is the front runner followed pretty closely by the USA, which isn’t surprising. This chart shows that the total number of youths playing hockey was around 1.722 million worldwide last season. Again, this doesn’t separate the youth’s genders but you can probably assume that about 70–75% of those are boys (about 1.291 million).Youth hockey is still growing (albeit slowly) worldwide so we can also assume that this season there were more youth registrants than in these numbers (likely by about 80–100K players, or about 62K more boys).I hope that helps give you a better idea of how many kids play hockey worldwide!

In this answer of mine Henri Burger's answer to Who would you want to be your president in South Africa? someone commented that I show a complete lack of understanding of the South African political landscape (looking at you Paul Chinchen!). That may or may not be true, you know what they say about opinions.But I have a challenge for you. In the week running up to the elections an online South African news source ran this #SAElections2019 | Looking for your political home? Take the News24 party quiz to help readers to decide for whom to vote. In it they looked at 5 different current issues in South Africa (Land Reform, Employment, ESKOM - the electricity supply utility, Policing and Healthcare) and gave the policy statements of 9 different political parties on each issue to select from.Before you read any further, I dare you to take the quiz, reading each policy statement very carefully. I’ll give you some time, it will only take a few minutes. Are you done? Good!I’ll predict the following: You found it very confusing, as (with a few exceptions) the majority of parties all basically say the same thing. I did the quiz and it was recommended that I vote for 5 different parties! And that’s the problem with South African politics of which I presumably understand so little.In South Africa people therefore vote along political party alliance lines, or they don’t vote at all. And this is what more or less played out during the elections.Traditional ANC supporters had a few choices:Rather the devil you knowLet’s give Cyril Ramaphosa a chanceLet’s vote for the EFFLet’s not register to vote at allLet’s not waste our time by votingAll those scenario’s played out to some extent.First off, only 74.5% eligible voters cared to register - a figure of 9 million people didn’t, of which 6 million are under 30 years of age Surge of youth registrations - but millions still not enrolled for poll. That implies that a considerable number of people are disillusioned and don’t trust politicians.Secondly, only 66% of registered voters turned out to vote, down from 73% in 2014 (compared to almost 90% in 1999 - we don’t have figures for 1994). Again some disillusionment.Now, actual figures. The ANC received 1.4 million fewer votes in 2019 than in 2014. It tells a story.So what does the political spectrum looks like for 4 of the top political parties as from 8/5/2019 (I’ll leave the Inkatha Freedom Party, who gained 4th most votes, out as they are somewhat of a special case):EFF (10.79%) -> ANC (57.5%) -> DA (20.77%) -> Freedom Front Plus (2.38%)As shown from left to right it represents radical left (EFF), centre left (ANC), centre-centre right (DA) and right (FF+, Afrikaner interests, if you like). Both the EFF and FF+ gained support - the EFF from the ANC, the FF+ from the DA, but not in an overtly worrying sense in the broader scheme of things. Many people will disagree, but the ANC and DA forms the centre, which is still holding.It must be said that without Ramaphosa support for the ANC most probably would have dropped to just above 50%, but the ANC won because the majority of voters don’t see a better alternative at this stage.2019 vs 2014: What the numbers tell us about the general electionsRise of black and Afrikaner nationalism the result of ANC failures