How about someone for president under 80. Many other countries are doing this just fine but for some reason, the only people considered for the presidency are old white males.
There is a frustrating arrogance in this piece from someone who is a part of the generation who has wrecked so much for their own benefit. Young people are so critical because you are doing something they no longer consider acceptable, but there just aren't enough of them to make a difference against to an enormous generation of voting baby boomers.
This weekend there was an election in my country where, once again, a primarily baby boomer voter demogaphic returned a party to power whose only policies are built on appealing to immediate self interest to the detriment of everyone who will come after them.
Ah, a fellow Aussie. I would contend that it's far more than just "baby boomers vote Liberal".
The core issue is that all of the mainstream media is corporate-aligned and constantly bashing Labor and unions, with only milk-toast "criticisms" of the Liberal Government to maintain "neutrality". There's also a massive amount of scare campaigns targeted at immigrants that "Labor will cancel your visas!" (which is what the Liberal government is doing right now and are just projecting).
It's a modern form of propaganda, and it's ludicrously effective. Combine that with an overwhelming amount of political apathy (ordinary people don't feel politicians represent them anymore) and the result is obvious.
Let's not forget that those same baby boomers voted in Whitlam, Hawke, and Keating.
Not to mention, the wanker Bret Stephens picks a twitter user with under 70 followers (at the time Stephens wrote the article [1]) and who also clearly doesn't live in the United States and appoints him or her as somehow representative of a generation of people. People in America.
Also, perhaps more amazingly, there does not appear to be an age on the account. So, you know, quite possibly also not a millenial.
You can find a rando on twitter saying virtually anything you want.
I predicted the Coalition would be returned the moment the writ was dropped. People haven't forgotten that Bill Shorten played a large part in knifing Kevin Rudd, and that he's a union guy. Also the franking credits should have been grandfathered – that just came across as mean-spirited. If people were sick of the Coalition Labor might have been able to overcome those issues but Morrison is not unlikeable and a bunch of the old guard quit. The point is, Labor ran a bad campaign and the Coalition ran a good one – while I agree somewhat with your complaint that people vote in their own self-interest it's the job of political parties to convince them that it's in their self-interest to vote for them, and Labor failed at doing that. I hope they do better next time.
It's not that millennials have an "inability to understand the way the world works" — it's that previous generations have structured the world in such a way that it primarily benefits them, often to the detriment of younger generations. Millennials are just sick of playing the boomers' game.
Applying the strongest interpretation of the argument in the article: there is some excessive behavior in the call out culture... but isn't this the same culture that produced the Me Too movement? I think that has been a positive thing. The abusive incidents seem isolated, while the widespread movements seem overall positive.
I think Biden is electable... but his creepiness is real. If I went around (as a manager) touching people the way he does, I can only imagine the sexual harassment claims I would have to deal with. Sniffing womens hair? Giving them shoulder rubs? I don't see how behavior that would be grossly inappropriate in the workplace is somehow ok when your workplace is congress.
What really concerns me about Biden is that he doesn't seem serious about climate change or healthcare. It sounds very much like he just wants to punt the problems down the road like politicians have done in this country for so long. To him it might not matter much (he'll be dead before the bill comes due).. but I have another (maybe) 50 years. When are we planning to do something?
It's great that boomers solved some very real problems (as Biden mentioned) decades ago. Good job.. But there are still problems, and we cant just sit around being nostalgic about the past. Politicians should be judged for the solutions they bring to the problems we face today.
Right? My eyes rolled at "the difference between exuberant human warmth and unwarranted sexual advances." An "unwanted" qualifier needs to go before "exuberant human warmth". I sincerely hope he understands THAT difference
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 47.4 ms ] threadThis weekend there was an election in my country where, once again, a primarily baby boomer voter demogaphic returned a party to power whose only policies are built on appealing to immediate self interest to the detriment of everyone who will come after them.
The core issue is that all of the mainstream media is corporate-aligned and constantly bashing Labor and unions, with only milk-toast "criticisms" of the Liberal Government to maintain "neutrality". There's also a massive amount of scare campaigns targeted at immigrants that "Labor will cancel your visas!" (which is what the Liberal government is doing right now and are just projecting).
It's a modern form of propaganda, and it's ludicrously effective. Combine that with an overwhelming amount of political apathy (ordinary people don't feel politicians represent them anymore) and the result is obvious.
Let's not forget that those same baby boomers voted in Whitlam, Hawke, and Keating.
At this point, we can only hope that there is something left to save when the balance eventually tips.
Also, perhaps more amazingly, there does not appear to be an age on the account. So, you know, quite possibly also not a millenial.
You can find a rando on twitter saying virtually anything you want.
[1] https://twitter.com/Anarchopriapism/status/11298090376027709...
Labor's strategy could best be described as expecting destiny to take care of it.
I think Biden is electable... but his creepiness is real. If I went around (as a manager) touching people the way he does, I can only imagine the sexual harassment claims I would have to deal with. Sniffing womens hair? Giving them shoulder rubs? I don't see how behavior that would be grossly inappropriate in the workplace is somehow ok when your workplace is congress.
What really concerns me about Biden is that he doesn't seem serious about climate change or healthcare. It sounds very much like he just wants to punt the problems down the road like politicians have done in this country for so long. To him it might not matter much (he'll be dead before the bill comes due).. but I have another (maybe) 50 years. When are we planning to do something?
It's great that boomers solved some very real problems (as Biden mentioned) decades ago. Good job.. But there are still problems, and we cant just sit around being nostalgic about the past. Politicians should be judged for the solutions they bring to the problems we face today.
Right? My eyes rolled at "the difference between exuberant human warmth and unwarranted sexual advances." An "unwanted" qualifier needs to go before "exuberant human warmth". I sincerely hope he understands THAT difference