We’re young; we’re supposed to be skeptical. Now the challenge is to do something about our distrust.
We’re young; we’re supposed to be skeptical. Now the challenge is to do something about our distrust.
The greatest political problem our generation must rally for isn’t fighting or ending the war, fixing the economy, social welfare, reproductive rights, civil rights, or anything seemingly remotely straight forward. It’s a much larger, vaguer thing that we must fight for: sanity.
The idea that there is some kind of resurgence among youth or frustration at the establishment is hardly a novel concept. However, to claim that the kind of divisions that plague Congress are reaching out into college aged kids, as a recent NYT article implied, is simply ludicrous.