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3/26/2018 3:18:03 AM
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They're not exactly wrong for politicians not representing the people.
America is one of the most politically apathetic 1st world nations in the world, with midterm elections [url=http://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#voter_turnout_101]being recorded to having only a 35% voter turnout rate in 2013[/url]. This low turnout is from people who are eligible to vote, not counting people who are younger than 18 or have not registered to vote.
In this part of California, this place is heavily Republican (imagine for every 10 people, there's probably 7 or 8 that are Republican), yet this place tends to vote Democratic. This is because the voter turnout for this county is one of the lowest turnouts in California. It's not because of voter suppression or whatever, but because people in this area just don't give a shit about politics when it comes to voting, but they always love to whine and complain that the people that have been elected for this county and state do not represent their views.
The generation after mine is heavily opinionated and very passionate about politics, which I personally like. It shows that they give a damn about where this country is going or where they want to steer it towards. Compared to previous generations like my generation or even my cousin's generation as a Gen X'er, the Gun Violence generation has the courage to say and do things that my generation was too much of a coward to do.
I don't necessarily agree with everything the next generation says, but I'll give them a lot of respect because they're being very proactive in what they believe in rather than just complaining about things in the US right now behind a computer screen like my generation did.
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Because it's borderline impossible to achieve these "traditional family values" for today's young adults. I assume you mean something along the lines of a nice house with a white picket fence, a nice car, a family with two kids, no debt to pay back, and stuff that you'd think of when you see the American Dream. Besides, what's wrong with non-traditional family structures, such as two gay men/women raising a son/daughter together, a couple or even a single person raising a child or orphan, or someone choosing not to settle down?
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I'd also like to add in: Conservative media has been insulting these kids - soon to be adults - constantly since the March for Our Lives movement happened. Many of those young adults are now either eligible to vote, or come around Midterm Election time, they'll be eligible to vote. If conservatives tried to get them to join their side, insulting them is probably one of the biggest piss-poor attempts at doing so. If anything, they'll probably join the liberals/democrats just to spite conservatives and to piss them off even more, since this movement definitely got a lot of conservatives triggered. Is it really so hard to sit down with one of them and discuss this civilly? It's an embarrassment at this point that adults are now acting like 7 year old children, while 7 year old children are acting like adults.
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The generation coming up now has two huge assets that make them more and more capable of making a difference. Communication and information. This generation is more interconnected than any previous, turning what would have been a single march or memorial into a national rally, with the support of hundreds of thousands more people than past generations could imagine. Plus, to the fear of the politicians, the youth of today has unparalleled access to information on things like campaign finance and how individual politicians have voted. They can see the strings making the politicians dance
