Gen Z is often dismissed as apathetic. But interviews with leading scholars suggest otherwise: a generation coming of age amid crises in housing, work, and political institutions is not losing faith in politics but in the promises of capitalism.
  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    1·
    28 days ago

    I think you and the person you replied to are both at the core making the same point, even if from different initial states. To quote the previous:

    The only way to strip that capability away from them is to rip out the incumbents IN THE PRIMARIES all the way down to where you live. And the way you do that is:

    You DON’T just vote in the national scale elections; rather, you instead vote in EVERY LOCAL ELECTION TOO

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      Yeah, and if it was primary season and they were telling people to vote, we’d be agreeing…

      But primaries are over and the midterms are a few months away…

      So all that person is doing, is hurting Dem turnout, when we need it the most