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Millennials are bucking trends, becoming an increasingly progressive voting bloc and rewriting the long-held rules of politics, writes Isabella Higgins.

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[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh man, I wonder if it has anything to do with the US government completely failing to ever provide any of the following for millenials:

  • Raise minimum wage even once in our entire adult working lives. (20 years)
  • Reduce Healthcare costs and make insurance affordable.
  • Pass some form of gun legislation to prevent Columbine style school shootings that now happen weekly, and have been becoming more regular since '99
  • Maintain the quality of public education.
  • Make higher education affordable.
  • Stabilize the economy so it doesn't fail evey decade since 2008

Basically, we're the first generation of Americans to not have a functional government of any kind that has done anything to improve the quality of our lives. All we have gotten from the decades of our tax dollars going into our bullshit corporate capitalist system is the literal worst Covid response on the plant, multiple bank bailouts, the worst education, the most costly Healthcare, and now for the salaries of actual fascists.

Fuck any American too stupid and selfish to move left enough to save America. Hope owning the libs was worth getting our Democracy inverted, our Supreme Court destroyed, our justice system shredded, all to get a president that shits himself, insults everyone, and diddles kids.

It's that or voting left, and somehow we have that. It would be embarrassing if it already wasn't so fucking cruel. Millenials aren't moving left, they're getting pushed to the point of just not caring for a country that clearly doesn't care for them and literally never has.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think the older and richer folks do not understand that power is a mutual exchange.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

They don't, and historically never have. So it's about to get Mario Kart 64 versus mode in the States with the amount of Luigi-ing that is likely going to happen soon.