I wonder how many will vote for conservative candidates who do not care about the climate crisis or choose not to vote. My guess is quite a few. Unfortunately.
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And overwhelming majority of Boomers don't care, but that hurricane insurance check better be on time or so help them they will go full metal Karen!
I see a lot of complaints about boomers but I never see a strategy from younger people about what they themselves are planning/doing to make the world a better place.
When I was in my teens and 20’s I heard the same complaints about how older people left us a ruined world. And then everyone proceeded to do exactly Jack shit about it, myself included.
But at least I voted, every election, every time.
That's funny, I didn't.
I was young X, and we were brutally bulled and abused by Boomers.
The problem is: The boomers were idiots, they never had to learn anything, things were simple, the economy was good, why would they have to think, their parents gave them everything on a silver platter.
The GG were awesome btw, learning from them was like learning from wise elders, especially in engineering. The problem was Boomers didn't understand anything but were so overconfident that they actually knew everything, and when you tried to explain to them where they were wrong they considered it an attack and again went full metal Karen.
You are being willfully ignorant then
I truly feel really bad for this younger generation. I think this is in the global consciousness of our youth worldwide and I regret that they are inheriting a poisoned world. As if slave wages weren't enough reason alone to not have any children.
I am truly sorry for my part in this.
This was us 40 years ago. We've been here this whole time, complaining about destroying the earth, getting laughed at by people in power.
And now that the real fight - with billionaires and corporations - is coming into view, it's in the collapse stages when it almost doesn't matter. Almost.
Of course it always matters, it's just we're going to have a lot of suffering that was very, very preventable.
"fuck them kids"
-boomers
"fuck them kids"
- P. Diddy
Then you lil fuckers need to get out and vote.
It's always amazed me that young voters tend to be the most unreliable voting bloc. I was a young, early-20s idealist, and I made sure to go out and vote. Hopefully they step it up this November.
I think there are voter suppression efforts that target youth. Plus they're likely struggling to get by and may feel like they can't spend hours/all day voting.
There's also a huge amount of political cynicism. It's easier to just think that there can be no change, and that my one vote doesn't matter, and that all politicians are evil. I saw this way too much during my college days.
It's true, though. America is not and has never been a Democracy, the only votes that matter are thosr cast in swing counties in a few states.
In my state (CA) everyone gets a mail in ballot by default. I wonder what the rates are here? I bet not great.
I'm always amazed that old people think voting is going to solve the climate catastrophe.
If you get a large enough majority? Hell yeah it will.
Have them all demand to raise taxes on oil company profits to 90% to fund renewables, it'll be just like when we broke big tobacco.
You understand that with a super-majority in congress, we get to make the rules, right? Companies can only do what is legal in the countries they operate in.
If we decide to take 90% of the money from fossil fuel companies and divert them to clean energy, reduce our DOD spending by 50% and funnel it into scientific research, NASA, etc. then we have a shot.
We are the people, and the government is intended to be a reflection of that. Not the gerrymandered, voter suppressed state it's in today.
We need to suspend Medicare for 10 years, let things sort themselves out.
They do hate socialism after all, "keep the government out of my medicare!" and all that?
Cornel West 2024!
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s