The Trump Death Star Implodes - 0 views
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My sense (as a younger boomer) of what drives young people’s concerns is a combination of anxiety about where we’re headed, and their beliefs regarding the absolute inadequacy of status quo institutions for navigating present and future perils. They are done, exhausted, and completely devoid of patience and tolerance for any pleas to “let the system work”.
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In addition, they seem more attuned to how profoundly unprepared (still, to this day) we all are for handling aggressive manipulation via social and traditional media.
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They seem to intuit that legacy standards of civil discourse have been corrupted and weaponized, and that some new standard is required. Decades of bad faith arguments, predominantly from right wing media and the Republican party, whether about climate change, racism, health care, tax policy, worker protections, or social disparities, are a major factor in that disenchantment. The traditional standards of evenhanded, open discourse have been turned against democracies around the world, at times with very negative consequences (Hungary, Poland, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, etc.).
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