No I very much understand why your generation wants tuition forgiveness, free college, free medical care and so on. These are all huge financial costs and burdens. I understand the appeal of what he is saying to certain audiences just like I understand the appeal of trump for others. I just think he is impractical. I dont want to pay for what Sanders wants and I dont think a majority of the country does either. Steyer's core message about corporations and their influence being the core issue is dead on. I could be right and I could be wrong. We'll see.
No, actually. This actually captures what I mean rather well. Those things, the medicare for all, student loans, college, those are all things we and the country
needs. The latter two has nuance, but the first is cut and try. They are decades old festering wounds that is going to have an impact when it's finally lanced, but if we don't, it will continue to spread and continue to get worse. This isn't an issue of want, and this reads like we're being viewed as being motivated purely by being in bad situations and wanting someone else to solve our problems. It's a very shallow take. The medicare for all is obvious, but student loans are becoming increasingly deadly, as people do commit suicide over the inescapable nature of them. The total psychological toll on my generation is crazy. It also illustrates a significant lack of empathy into how difficult and in some cases life threatening these things are. The bold highlights one of the biggest driving forces behind us, people coldly responding "well,
I don't want to pay for that". This is purely rhetorical, so don't answer, but why? What difference does it make, we already pay taxes, why are these things off the table?
The reason I say your out of touch and long have been is you don't
get the reasons why our generation is sick to the teeth of the way things in this country have been run. The major ticket issues like medicare for all are merely the tangible end results of decades of corruption and inaction that have to be fixed. They are not the bedrock driving forces. It's all of the stuff that led to these problems. Since childhood, we have watched leader after leader after leader break the law, and suffer very little consequences for it. We've witnessed so many C-suite level executives get away with significant financial crime with nothing more than a slap on the wrist. We watched wall street get completely bailed out in a very expensive and gentle manner and little to no fixes and politicans turn a blind eye to their immoral and illegal actions. We've watched the republican party become increasingly corrupt, craven, dishonest, and downright dangerous since birth. We've watch the democrats cave to them time and time again out of a premium for "reaching across the aisle" and operating in a moral vacuum as if they are reasonable with good intentions. We are absolutely
tired of dishonest, disingenuous leaders who don't actually solve problems, who don't actually fight, who don't actually operate with intellectual integrity and stand for moral principle on what is right with the human condition at the forefront. Countless of us have been psycholgically abused by our parents who supported the horrible leaders, and we saw past it but were powerless to do anything. We have very little reason to believe or trust the vast majority of leaders because their actions defy their words constantly. There are huge disconnects. It is not hard for us to not only see through the bs, but also easy for us to do the research to find out what is actually going on. For most of our lives it's all we could do. things have become so bad that many who didn't now have out of sheer necessity. We've been continuously treated like children well into adulthood, bemoaned by older generations for being too immature, too lazy, and refusing to get in line with how the world works as they see it. We are SICK of trying to explain these things, trying to get people to understand, only for it to fall on deaf ears and be treated like children in patronizing manners at the best end of it. Many of us don't tolerate it anymore. I certainly don't.
I was raised by a cloaked neo-nazi father. Because of him and that side of the family, I have seen through the republican party and what it actually is since childhood. I've had arguments with my father since age
6 over it (as much as a 6 year can argue anyway). I learned
a lot dealing with and hearing his authoritarian cruelty. I disowned him over a year ago in part precisely because of his hatred and views. None of what is currently happening with them is much of a surprise to me at the end of the day. This party is evil incarnate, and we have watched the democratic party attempt to reason with them, make nice with them, and adapt to them and it never worked. It is infuriating when older generations refuse to see this and knee-jerk react to words like socialism and immediately jump to "how will this be paid for?" as if it is somehow equivalent to these things or is of primacy. We have observed such a disgraceful intellectual laziness from them as if its nothing more than an input-response mentality because it's how things have always been. The democrats in bulk have refused to see the writing on the wall with the GOPs dishonesty and cheating nature. We can't take it anymore. Literally. Climate change alone makes it impossible for us not to seek radical change in the way government runs. It's just
one issue. Our generation cannot stand moderates because moderates won't take the steps needed to address climate change properly, as they will just fall and cave to the GOP like the always have, at best. If climate change isn't addressed we are all toast, and we have no reason to believe at all that moderates are going to do anything productive about it and would fail if they tried. A lot of us will be showing up to the polls because this is a do or die moment.
We don't want free stuff. We want honesty, intellectual integrity, to stop being treated like inept children with no level-headedness, and leaders who actually demand accountability. We want corrupt individuals and organizations to actually be stopped - meaningfully and lastingly stopped - and prevented from causing problems anymore. Because at this point, we have seen almost none of this for our entire lives, and if it continues, a significant portion of us will perish.
So, again, you're out of touch. I hope you start to notice and understand what is at stake here for all of us (not just my generation) throughout this year. I hope you do, and I think you might, and you do get a minority of the portions. It just hasn't come together yet.
