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Meg Sumner's avatar

It was fun seeing the college protesters demanding electricity, wifi, cafeteria meals and door dash be delivered to the kids who were occupying school buildings, like they were being denied their basic human rights. They think they're going to be the vanguard leading the working class to glorious revolution against mom and dad and they can't last 24 hours without being able to charge their iphones.

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I’m sorry, but these fucking kids. There has never been so much content available to them to be “excited” about. They had basically every song in history in their pockets at all times, generally for free on YouTube. There’s more TV shows and films than there was in any prior generation. Their ability to connect with people across the world is that which the wealthiest and most powerful rule didn’t have access to seven decades ago. And yet… they apparently need it from politics too. Nothing can be “boring”. Nothing takes time and hard dull work.

This is not the same as prior generations. It isn’t. The baby boomers, for all of their faults, were willing to get beaten by cops to fight for civil rights and go to prison for openly demonstrating their opposition to a war they felt was wrong. Gen X didn’t do much, but you guys never pretended to. You weren’t sanctimonious self-appointed arbiters of universal morality; you basically just wanted the world to understand that YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ME DAD!

Us Millennials can be annoying, and we didn’t start great, but have come to appreciate nuance and patience despite coming of age in an economic crater and the fall out from a war we never wanted. We fought for what we thought was right, but understood the limits of protest. We understood that Barack Obama was not a perfect president, and that much of his term was fruitless, but we also understood much of that wasn’t his fault and that the ACA is a transformative piece of legislation that has saved tens of millions of lives and improved health of people (including those of Gen Z).

Thee kids have demanded everything must be contextualized in the scope of all human history…except when it isn’t convenient (Jewish history only started in 1948 and gay history only started nine years ago so both groups are privileged oppressors… and Trump)

Many of these kids, especially the ones most “disappointed” in Biden live in major cities where they have the easiest access to entertainment, communal spaces, and sex than ever before.

But politics isn’t as exciting as Game of Thrones so… Make America Great Again…?

This post I’m sure has tons of typos (sorry about that) and sounds like Abe Simpson howling at the moon, but Gen Z can eat shit.

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