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Overwhelming majority of young Americans worry about climate crisis
(www.theguardian.com)
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I agree, it's a very serious problem that the Democrats continue to push policy that is unpopular with young folks.
Because elections are popularity contests.
They very clearly are, but there aren't any American political parties that are invested in their future. Just ones that pretend to cater to them while selling them out to the oil and weapons industries.
Yeah, it sucks. Any time you start talking about making the future suck less, Republicans start calling you a commie socialist and Democrats kick you out of the group chat.
That seems very defeatist though? I mean I get where you're coming from in that ideally we'd have options which align more with what we want to move towards progress but realistically that's not something that's entirely possible right now.
Right now, there's an option that pushes progress further back and the other one that seems somewhat neutral by comparison (unfortunately). In that case, wouldn't picking the lesser evil be better than simply standing by and doing nothing?
Forget it, you're talking to a brick wall.
Let them get some life experience and maybe in 15-20 years it'll be a productive conversation.
I lost my faith in the American political system over 20 years ago...
Sure
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