These reanimated corpses have been in power for way too goddamned long. They can barely carry the weight of their own clothes FFS. Just. Go away.. I bet they park their shit boxes on the sidewalks too. Bastards the lot of them.
As much as I (a 43 year old teacher) may shake my head at the tik-tok generation, we need their energy and idealism to renew our democratic institutions and approach society’s problems with fresh eyes and optimism. Term limits have never seemed more crucial to that renewal process than they do now. This much entrenched money and power just seems like fear of that change and renewal.
Don't judge a generation by the popular app of the time. I'm not much younger than you and remember being called the Facebook generation, and now it's swarmed with boomers. Plenty of 40 year olds use TikTok anyway.
You're right, we need their energy and idealism more than ever because they are sticking to their ideals and see the writing on the wall.
If voting didn't change things. They wouldn't be working so hard to take away the ability or right to vote from certain groups. Or negate their votes. Voting matters. But so does who's counting. It's an uphill battle. But there are almost no better battles to be fighting.
That must be why things are getting better. They’ll let you vote for culture war policy, but not economic policy. The battle in the streets is where real change happens. Protests. Strikes, organizing, unions. That’s what scare the capitalists. Hypothetically, if we overwhelmingly voted for Socialism, you think they would allow that?