Our Kids Know Who The Horrible Establishment Really Is - They Want Change

[DanieRains]

Younger Americans how bleak all of their futures truly are.

This is why most "young people" support one candidate over the others.

Let's get started. "The Establishment" covers a lot of ground.

Younger Democrats and other non fossils like me can see trillions in debt and a collapsing planet with 500 extinctions a day on the horizon. Bees? Meh. Who needs 'em. Good luck kiddies. Greta understands. So does her friends. They have eyes. Just not futures.

Our kids and grand kids will get to see it all collapse so the 1% of today can keep their yachts and their private jets, made possible by armies of lobbyists. Un-taxed corporations are actually writing legislation voted for BY BOTH PARTIES. Their major stockholders just want returns. The future of the planet means NOTHING to our un-taxed owners. Weather "problems" don't affect the wealthy.

Millions of kids and Bernie understand what is around the corner (and already here)

Sad.

How few understand what's coming.

It's not just deplorables denying reality.

California and Australia's fires are not even getting fun yet. And it's not even warm yet. The world's coral reefs are not all dead yet. Yet. I read within 30 years commercial fishing in the ocean will be non-existent. Can anyone here imageine 3 to 5 degrees celcius?

1% has half the world's wealth and 95% of the power. They are reaping record profits and will stop anyone (candidate) who gets in their way. They have armies of lobbyists taking on the lobbyists fighting for the future of the planet, fighting pollution, and promoting economic justice.

Their money is what fuels "The Establishment" here, and elsewhere.

Who is brave enough to take them on?

We all know the answer.

Stay away from places like Paradise CA, or Pateros WA my friends in the meantime. Fire season is almost here. Being burned alive really can ruin your day. Have you ever watched your town burn to the ground? I have. My rage comes from a special place. Reality in Eastern Washington. Fire zone every summer. My mom had to evacuate 8 times one year she said. Trump is only a symptom of the disease. All those victims voted for Trump because he lied and told them he would make things batter. They (like fools) believed the con man. No one here was that stupid.

"The Establishment" is anyone helping the 1% maintain control, regardless the consequences. Folks looking to "get paid" for their "work". Who pays? The corporations who need 5 million a year lobbyists. I watched my friends give Boeing (who pays zero income tax) 10 BILLION DOLLARS in tax cuts to "stay" in Washington. Insane. And it had to be done "because". The game is rigged. Against me, you, and our families.

Sorry. Someone had to explain it.

Someone has to change it. It may already be too late.

Saying we need a revolution is putting it mildly. It's a pay to play world.

EOM

[NurseJackie]

1. Anyone who's been in Washington DC for over 30 years is part of "the establishment".

Don't be fooled.

[DanieRains]

10. Don't Paint Everyone With The Same Brush Though

Money influences everything. You need money to fund an election. Catch 22.

Not every single politician, or occupant of D.C. sells out. They all live in fear though.

Some resist the hoarders better than others. Republicans sell out the first time someone flashes a $50 bill in their face.

[NurseJackie]

11. Such determined hair-splitting is indicative of a weak position.

Don't Paint Everyone With The Same Brush Though

Such determined hair-splitting is indicative of a weak position. Actually, I'm not "painting everyone" with the same brush. I'm doing the exact opposite. I'm showing the danger that exists when others use "establishment" as a smear. That, too, is a very broad brush.

[Liberalhammer]

2. Millenials & After are getting

Screwed by conservative boomers and X'ers.

It started with Reagan.

I hope they tear the corporate welfare state down. It needs to die.

[ancianita]

3. Anyone who ignores corrupt corporate capture, and abuse of Constitutional law, is Establishment.

[LanternWaste]

4. Millionaire-30-Year-Career-Politicians are or are not part of The Establishment?

Or (and this is my guess) will we see the goalposts moved so swiftly as to make a Doppler wave seem slow and ponderous?




("We all know the answer." )

[LonePirate]

5. Kids nowadays fail to appreciate expensive health care, predatory lenders and high tuition.

If only those kids would see the world through their parents’ eyes where all of those things are acceptable and moderates who refuse to improve America can run the country.

[ibegurpard]

6. They better get their asses to the polls then

They outnumber everyone else but don't vote their demographic weight. The only way to the world they want is to actually exercise political power. Rallies and protests change nothing on their own.

[CalFione]

7. For every one of those "kids" that votes, two retirees will vote

And they will not vote for Bernie.

[brush]

8. If they're so worried about fossils and 30-year careers, why aren't they backing Mayor Pete...

the candidate their age?

[CrispyQ]

9. One of the dem contenders challenging Cory Gardner's seat, Andrew Romanoff,

put out this 4 minute apocalyptic ad. I only watched the first 30 seconds or so. It takes place in the future and is narrated by a little girl who lives in Colorado Springs, but can't go outside in the summer because of extreme heat and poor air quality.

Intense Praise for Apocalypse-Themed Climate 2020 Campaign Ad-Common Dreams

Antarctica is heating up and will become a refuge for the rich while the rest of us bake and drown. It's looking grim for the human race.

on edit: He's taken a lot of heat for this ad, too.

[Quixote1818]

12. Well said. nt