Millennials don't believe protesting works.
I've seen a lot of discussion about why millennials aren't coming out. Yes, they work and have young children. They are taking care of their elderly parents. All of these things are true and valid.
But also millennials have gone to the Occupy Wall Street protests, which accomplished nothing. The BLM protests, which accomplished nothing. The Women's March, which lol. I protested during all of these things only for our country to slide even further into capitalistic greed and corruption. When Bernie was running, someone we could get excited about, he was undermined by his own party.
Many millennials don't even believe their vote matters anymore in the face of gerrymandering and the electoral college.
I still want to believe protesting can effect change. Or frankly that American citizens have any power at all anymore. I'll be protesting on the 5th, but man is it hard to keep hope alive when our generation has been crushed under the establishment for our entire lives. Combine that with how oppressive the 40+ hour work week is and can you blame people for not protesting? Millennials barely even have the energy to do their laundry.
I'm not sure how to energize people. I'm not even sure how to energize myself. The Democratic party offers no leadership or hope whatsoever.
Please offer your local millennial (and me!) some hope. Please tell me we aren't just screaming into a void.
Originally Posted By u/duckhunt420 At 2025-03-31 11:47:11 AM | Source
I'll get bombed for this but oh well.
Remember this when you see all of those "boomers made this happen by accepting X,Y, & Z."
They all had lives, children, etc, and the policies/administration weren't even 1/10th as stupid and shitty as what we see now.
And no, I'm not a boomer. I just think that argument (which I've seen many times) is ridiculous. We're all trying to do the best we can, just like they did.
And that's the problem. It's easy to fight an opponent who's weak. They had jobs and families, yes, but they could also afford a house on a single salary. The government wasn't a fascist police state that would send natural-born citizens to El Salvador for using their First Amendment right of free speech. The media was still the Fourth Estate.
So while I appreciate your perspective, I don't think their generation's extreme privilege and golden economy is much of an analog for current generations, except on the surface.
Yeah, I respect their take at the same time that it ignores the history of at least the last hundred years. It's problematic trying to sector off one generation from another. We're all being worn down and have been since at least the mid or late 60s