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BillBrasky Memorial Political Chat Thread

Surprising it’s so bad, considering how much that crowd studies and appreciates art.
 
 
oh trump tweeted that again I see

first time was maybe last year?
 
 
It was a matter of time before electing the former Police Chief as mayor would backfire.

I love the "40+ Patriots" and the "truly amazing when the silent majority is fed up and decides to speak up" lines. That they apparently didn't get a permit for it makes it even better.
 
lol josh coming out strong vs Chelsea Peretti
 
Ahem

 
Not only that, I think there's probably been a thousand words on this board alone spilling out about how he failed to usher in the next generation of leftists. Justice Dems have been growing since 2018. Not me, us.
 
Not only that, I think there's probably been a thousand words on this board alone spilling out about how he failed to usher in the next generation of leftists. Justice Dems have been growing since 2018. Not me, us.

I honestly think that in 25 years we'll look back and see that Bernie did more to advance progressivism within the Democratic party as a twice failed candidate for president than we would have seen if had won. Millennials and Zoomers have embraced the progressive message in large part, I think, because of Bernie. If he'd won, McConnell would have obstructed anything he brought forth and the centrist Dems would just say "See, it can't be done." Instead, Bernie's message has shifted the dynamics of the party and, I think, in the long run he is going to change the zeitgeist of the Democratic Party.
 
You've also got to give a tremendous amount of credit to the actual kids themselves, from Sunrise Movement to the Parkland teens to Greta. I think the way Bernie ties in is that the kids know reflexively he's the only presidential candidate that was promising them the material change they knew would be required for them to have a chance at a future, and they're making it work locally and downballot.
 
I don't know how much of it is increased visibility with social media and whatnot, but it does seem like kids are way more politically active then when I was growing up.
 
I think you're right about that.

Inconvenient Truth came out when I was ~18. Most kids now have been living with the concept of climate change as a reality from the time they were quite small. I think the scale and impact of it resonates hard.

I know when I walked through the student fair as an idealistic socialist freshman the groups that I wanted to join were GSSA (Gay Straight Student Alliance) and SGAC (Student Global AIDS Campaign), and then Facebook came to Wake my freshman year and you could be "active" in groups online for the first time around then too. Local action for the first two groups looked like panel discussions, fundraisers, and education campaigns. Now you can do a lot of that virtually with a broader spend and lower barrier to entry.
 
I think you're right about that.

Inconvenient Truth came out when I was ~18. Most kids now have been living with the concept of climate change as a reality from the time they were quite small. I think the scale and impact of it resonates hard.

I know when I walked through the student fair as an idealistic socialist freshman the groups that I wanted to join were GSSA (Gay Straight Student Alliance) and SGAC (Student Global AIDS Campaign), and then Facebook came to Wake my freshman year and you could be "active" in groups online for the first time around then too. Local action for the first two groups looked like panel discussions, fundraisers, and education campaigns. Now you can do a lot of that virtually with a broader spend and lower barrier to entry.

Was SEAC (Student environmental action coalition) still around? I helped to get that started in 97/98. I have no idea how long that group lasted, but I was appalled that there was no student environmental group so a few friends and I got one started. First two things we did was get them to stop releasing balloons a the start of every home football game and we got the Pit to switch to metal utensil and reusable plates.
 
I don't know how much of it is increased visibility with social media and whatnot, but it does seem like kids are way more politically active then when I was growing up.

younger kids, definitely

no data to back this up, but feels like social media is a big factor, coupled with widening inequality


I think where political activity among youth has gone down is at the university level -- hard to imagine the anti-war or anti-apartheid movements that took place on campuses happening today
 
SEAC is still there (at least it was when I finished my master's in '18)
 
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