Yes, this. This is the reason we will fail as a nation. “It’s too big (or too great) to fail.” People say that about democracy, and it’s what we said about the economy in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and then...It failed.
People this country don’t seriously realize how lucky we are. They don’t value their vote, and they often don’t participate. We consider an election where 50% of the population votes, and big turnout ?.
These factors might actually offer some of explanation for why my generation is swinging so hard left. Think about it. We grew up through the aftermath of 9/11, through two Middle Eastern wars that claimed many of our parents and family members (for practically nothing), a recession that left some of us homeless and most of us without opportunity for half a decade, We then watched in horror as our country elected Trump, we watched with even greater horror as our friends were massacred at schools across the country, and now we’re watching a party fix an election against the candidate we actually believe in (even if that’s good or not). Plus, if that wasn’t enough, we can’t afford college tuition, we’ll all have massive debt, we’re at the mercy of increasingly dangerous climate change, we’ve seen Neo-Nazis march through our streets, and we’ve been left out of an increasingly shrinking job field.
So yeah, we’re upset, and no matter what we do, the system won’t change because that’s the true nature of this country. We do nothing for years and years until we’ve kicked the problem down the line so far that something gives, and all hell breaks lose. That’s why Capitalism fails, it allows people to get lazy, and it preaches that only money matters. That is wheel my generation is tasked with breaking, and that party that supposedly represents us, won’t even give us a chance to.