Fair. I have an amount of sympathy for the people who say things like: what good has it been having elections so far; we have active shooter trainings in our schools and no health care and a lifetime of crippling student loan debt because a degree is required even for jobs that don’t use it.
One thing that I think is not properly communicated to younger generations (I had to figure this out the hard way) is that real change happens at the local level. By the time we’re voting for Pres it is too late. If you want activism focus on the local and state Dem party races.
SF is an example. The City has been very anti new housing for years and a new slate campaigned for control of the Dem committee. Now they make the official Dem endorsements which will be a big lever in supervisor elections. Roll that up to the state party, etc.
It is impressive how we are trained as kids that leaders (President, Gov, Mayor) hold the power, when real change happens with representatives, senators, assemblypeople, etc. We do a disservice to young activists by not loudly and broadly highlighting this.
But a lot of younger people On Here (for example) don’t have a lot of long-term focus, so they want to vote for one person who can rename all the post offices in America at one go.
Despite the fact that you are massively misreading what I said, I’ll take you seriously and give you this article in response. www.thenation.com/article/poli... Besides the way it treats Bernie Sanders entirely too respectfully, it makes the point.
