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And yet youth perpetually don’t show up to vote. I am frustrated by millennial and Gen-Z’s willingness to roll over without putting up a fight. We’ll turn out t
by voisin 3y ago
And yet youth perpetually don’t show up to vote. I am frustrated by millennial and Gen-Z’s willingness to roll over without putting up a fight. We’ll turn out to protest against police brutality or for #MeToo but any form of protest related to the economy ceased with Occupy Wall Street, which was pretty tepid.
- xracy 3y agoWho should they vote for? I would love to see candidates addressing the needs/wants of Gen-Z... But uhh, I don't know anyone who is actually appealing to them. The only 2 parties I see (in the us) are: Republicans: Actively trying to harm them. Democrats: Actively trying to maintain the status quo. Neither of these groups are interested in Gen-Z issues. The Democrats pay lip-service, but don't actually want to shake up the social hierarchy. So instead they mostly try and move to the center for the more regular turnout they know how to ask for. Gen-Z is not stupid. And I believe they demonstrate good turnout for the candidates they like... Maybe Politicians should be doing more to appeal to them instead of older generations that they claim are who they need to appeal to.
- iceflinger 3y agoAlmost like some kind of force noticed that particular protest too close to the real meat of the problem so made efforts to suppress it.
- vxNsr 3y agoOh they vote… just against their own interests. Gen-Z is a captured demographic that will vote against themselves while blaming others right into the pauper lines.
- xracy 3y agoWhich party has their interests in their platform? Who should Gen Z be voting for?
- Yizahi 3y agoSo you are saying that younger people in USA should vote for a party not currently involved in the sketchy monetary policies and lawmaking? How do you expected their vote matter in the first past the post system? In my country I've been voting since 16, because my vote actually counts. But if I were a citizen of the USA/UK or other similar countries, maybe I wouldn't bother too. What's the point?..
- me_me_me 3y agoOccupy Wall Street was movement that scared the hell out of elites, and tracking of what happened with the movement and afterwards shows how it was dismantled and suppressed afterwards. At later stages the Occupy movement was infiltrated by 'other' causes camps. The 'identity' focus causes became vocal within - the early days of social justice causes. That is something you need to avoid like plague to run successful movement - lack of direction, due to multiple divergent goals. It caused people to loose interest as movement was going everywhere and nowhere. Lets bring up Solidarity, they had leaders and quickly drafted what they want and did not stray from that path. If solidarity wanted democratic poland and strengthening ties with catholic church and establishment of diplomatic ties with africa and banning of military production... it would be hard to get all people behind all of the goals and it would be hard to achieve all those goals. I digress... back to occupy. Since then media created new fault lines for populous to fight over. Straight man vs the world, men vs women, whites oppressing non-whites, police vs blacks, can trans people use toilets and so on and on. We are bombarded by those narratives constantly. The moment one fades next one takes place. Those are very easy to instigate as all of them are based primary on emotions - whatever the factual background of the issue is. Occupy Wall Street and future movements like that need to be based on facts and logic to expose all of the systems that siphon wealth up into unproductive upper class. It takes effort to expose those complex systems and educate people about it to the point where they want to change it. In contrast to: police kills people, here is a video example, now come protest against injustice. Nothing really changes as nobody is doing anything about the underlying systems that create those outcomes... and look new injustice... we need to protest that now. I don't have any evidence but I find it very coincidental what happened with Occupy and thereafter, to not be suspicious if people targeted by Occupy did not do anything about it.
- ryandrake 3y agoI agree overall with your post, especially about the various distractions they have us all protesting over. But, I don't really think OWS had them particularly scared. It was just yet another ineffective protest by powerless people. What boggles my mind is how so many still think "protesting" makes any kind of difference at all. Talk about doing nothing about the underlying systems. Standing out on the street impotently yelling about something is pretty much one notch above "impotently posting to the internet about something". You think anyone in charge looks at a 100K person protest and says "Ohmygosh, they're really angry about this! Maybe I should change the status quo!" Hahaha never. You might as well pray--in both cases, nobody is listening. Occupy had exactly zero chance of changing anything, because in order to actually change things, you need to be in the rich club or one of their bought-and-paid-for politicians. And all of those people are already on the gravy train--they have no incentive to change anything.