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In reply to the discussion: We can do better than Hillary Clinton. [View all]90-percent
(6,845 posts)I'm 59 and I agree with you.
My observation about current young people, 30 and under, is that they are very open minded and live and let live. They grew up on computers and are very tech savvy.
They're OK with gay everything and generally tolerant of everything.
I try to talk to them. It recently occurred to me they DID NOT GROW UP with middle class lifestyles that I got to enjoy and took for granted growing up. I read somewhere that the peak middle class prosperity was in 1965 and has been in decline ever since. I was in 5th grade and wanted for little. Had all the model cars, bicycles, and TV shows I could ever want.
Most young people I engage have a very high awareness of the hurt from our corporate overlords. They are aware of how many rights have been taken from them.
I have only recently realized my youth and young adulthood was a lot more prosperous and filled with opportunity than theirs will ever be.
I was not carrying student debt the size of a home mortgage when I finally graduated college. My career prospects were very good. Modern young people have a bleak future and they know it. I must tell them it was not always like this. There was a time when the American dream was more real and more accessible.
The worst thing a generation can do is wreck the future of the following generation. My generation has been doing that to young people for the last thirty years.
-90% Jimmy
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