Given that this photo was posted less than 36 hours after Joseph Biden stepped down as a candidate in the 2024 U.S. presidential race, a reader notes: Gen Z isn’t wasting any time.
Good point, but progressives face some tough realities here. Getting young people to vote has never been a piece of cake.
But will it be easier in 2024? Perhaps.
Gen Z is going to be around a lot longer than I will. One might think that the idea of life on a planet whose daily news includes stories of more frequent and intense floods, wildfires, and wars over disappearing resources would be extremely unappealing. And ignoring climate change is only one aspect of life here that will unfold if Trump is re-elected. Do our kids want a federal ban on abortion? Education and lawmaking that are “biblically-based?”
But is this generation up to the task of taking a few seconds to register to vote, and another couple of minutes to cast their ballots? So many of them seem so disconnected. Overall, unemployment is low, but well-paying and satisfying career paths have given way to extreme wage pressure and oppressive demands from corporations that use people the same way they use IT, inventory, and real estate.
There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:
• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)
• Environmental collapse.
• Malicious use of AI.
• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.
• Nuclear war.
Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.
Obviously, James Carville has been wrong before, but it appears that he’s onto something here.
An ever-increasing number of Americans are realizing that Trump is criminally insane, and is leading this nation to destruction.
It’s a pleasure to see that Dr. Brian Cox has people so popular, having joined the ranks for Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, and a few others. This phenomenon of celebrity physicists if one of very few bright spots in our modern world.
I would qualify what he says at left as follows: the only people who hate the economics here are those invested in fossil fuels. Clean energy and transportation are already huge industries, and they’re growing at an amazing pace–even in the face of heavy suppression by Big Oil and Donald Trump.
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