Speaking as a Gen-Xer, I wouldn't mind millennial Democrats becoming political leaders.
I would like to see my fellow generation (roughly anyone born after JFK was assassinated and before the recession that ended in November 1982) barred from holding national political office. At the state and local level, only with California-like term l…
Speaking as a Gen-Xer, I wouldn't mind millennial Democrats becoming political leaders.
I would like to see my fellow generation (roughly anyone born after JFK was assassinated and before the recession that ended in November 1982) barred from holding national political office. At the state and local level, only with California-like term limits in place.
We are cynicism-poisoned, curdled sacks of squandered potential who struck out at every at-bat to change the world in a meaningful place.
In technology terms, Gen X-ers are flip phones and pagers in a smartphone world. The Yahoos in a Google world. The only generation who failed to realize the whole point of getting into art, music or acting was to sell out.
Millennials are the ones who figured shit out. Millennials made cities, cities -- in other words, America designs suburbs to be the favored quarter and central cities are the suburbs' septic tanks. The waste has to go somewhere. Cities are both figurative and literal shitholes. The only time American cities were not shitholes was when millennials lived in them. They made their money and they're gone and cities have once again resumed their roles as human septic tanks.
I don't know what to make of Gen-Z yet, but what does alarm me is that the alt-right has come so far and so fast from the fringe to mainstream acceptance and political power (in about a half-decade span, Gamergate went from a stupid online freakout over a breakup to becoming the center of the Republican Party). The Democrats have to basically be lucky in every single election; the GOP just has to win one race and America is the Fourth Reich.
At least with millennial Democrats, there's a mawkish earnestness (you also see it in Biden and Pelosi) and a desire to make "The West Wing" real life that you have to love, or begrudgingly respect.
Speaking as a Gen-Xer, I wouldn't mind millennial Democrats becoming political leaders.
I would like to see my fellow generation (roughly anyone born after JFK was assassinated and before the recession that ended in November 1982) barred from holding national political office. At the state and local level, only with California-like term limits in place.
We are cynicism-poisoned, curdled sacks of squandered potential who struck out at every at-bat to change the world in a meaningful place.
In technology terms, Gen X-ers are flip phones and pagers in a smartphone world. The Yahoos in a Google world. The only generation who failed to realize the whole point of getting into art, music or acting was to sell out.
Millennials are the ones who figured shit out. Millennials made cities, cities -- in other words, America designs suburbs to be the favored quarter and central cities are the suburbs' septic tanks. The waste has to go somewhere. Cities are both figurative and literal shitholes. The only time American cities were not shitholes was when millennials lived in them. They made their money and they're gone and cities have once again resumed their roles as human septic tanks.
I don't know what to make of Gen-Z yet, but what does alarm me is that the alt-right has come so far and so fast from the fringe to mainstream acceptance and political power (in about a half-decade span, Gamergate went from a stupid online freakout over a breakup to becoming the center of the Republican Party). The Democrats have to basically be lucky in every single election; the GOP just has to win one race and America is the Fourth Reich.
At least with millennial Democrats, there's a mawkish earnestness (you also see it in Biden and Pelosi) and a desire to make "The West Wing" real life that you have to love, or begrudgingly respect.
But please, please, please, NO GEN X-ERS!