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
My thing is I literally don't have the time. I'm primary income for my household, my kids eat up whatever sick time I have, and these protests, as far as I've seen, are never on the weekends. There's the 'economic blackout' ones I participated in, but it's not like those are making an impact to these companies that have hordes of resources to keep them afloat. Idk man. I don't want to be the reason our democracy fails, but I don't want to be one of the idiots just sitting around on their ass either.
There are large, organized protests all over this Saturday! It's never too late to start going. I'll be going for the first time ever on the 5th.
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
Almost all of the protests occur on Saturdays.
Some people work Saturday? Come on, guys, this isn't that hard. Millennials are in their 30s. People in their 30s have jobs and kids. Ive played DnD for 20 years, and if Ive learned anything in the last five years, its that getting five people in their 30s in the same room at the same time for 4 hours is impossible. One could argue capital made it harder by shattering communities, or forcing everyone to live paycheck to paycheck. Most of the millennials I know are politically engaged, many of them ranging from medicare for all leftist to blow up a pipeline leftist, but they have responsibilities.