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

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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

*Bernie Sanders is not a democret

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

But he caucuses with the Democrats. He's been a consistent voice of progressive ideas in a party of geriatric complacency. So yeah, in our current political hellscape, he's a Democrat.

[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Protest does work to a degree. But there is a dialectic change in that quantity begets quality when it becomes resistance.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I’m old enough to have lost friends in college for protesting the second Iraq War.

Americans are trash and if they want to act like trash I clearly can’t stop them.

[–] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Yea im not interested in the opinion of a cryptobro that says taxes are theft like this duckhunt fellow...

[–] wgoinon 2 points 3 days ago

Lots of good feedback here. Not much to offer. But I’ll help out where I can. I came from Reddit. Deleting my Reddit accounts.

[–] IrimeG 2 points 1 day ago

So you want everything solved by holding a sign in a park for an afternoon? Please. I just heard last week from Doria Robinson the ED of Urban Tilth who is greening Richmond CA and holding Chevron responsible for their egregious behavior in the community.

She talked about getting up every second Saturday to tend land and attend meetings and change minds for TWENTY YEARS. Now that’s activism. And she’s not a millennial with issues around instant gratification. And she’s making g beautiful lasting change for the people, the land, and the city.

So sorry this revolution will not be televised nor will it be sandwiched in a sound bite between Netflix binge sessions. SMH.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am boycotting instead. Also, not American.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Direct action is great but eventually we will need band together to get the thing done

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Well the movement to buy european is growing

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

I watched a news program from 1968, it was special coverage of the Democratic National Convention. There was a Vietnam protest, and the jackboots came and started to beat the protesters. Later that night, members of the DNC held a vigil for those beaten earlier.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Speak for yourself.

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