Message for Millennial Voting Cynics

[EffieBlack]

34. You seem to be under the misapprehension that anything short of a warm fuzzy embrace is "parental

scolding" while young people lecturing and instructing and complaining about what everyone else is saying or doing or not saying or doing or the tone of what they're saying or doing is simply speaking truth to power and must be heeded without comment or feedback.

As I said, mature people can listen to advice and criticism without whining that they're being subjected to "parental scolding." And if they are so sensitive to their perception of the tone or content of what people are saying to them makes them that they disengage from the political process, well ...

Frankly, I've already got mine. I'll be fine whoever is in power but am fighting for those who aren't fine and aren't going to be fine. And I've been doing this for decades and know a little something about it - largely because I listened to and learned from those who came before me and didn't accuse them of being "scolds" or reject their advice when they told me their honest truth. But if anyone feels that this is personal and that they need to disconnect from the process that impacts them because they don't like something I've said on an online discussion board, again, well ...