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A generation plus has grown up in the current political climate.
That doesn’t bode well for the future.
I don’t know the name for the youngest generations, but a large number of them have grown up increasingly propagandized, distracted, uneducated and submerged in the midst of violence and incivility.
They have grown up and now their kids are set to grow up in a different world than the one many of us know.
We saw many young people motivated to turn out for the last election. But I don’t think we saw how many are misguided and motivated by the negative political climate.
It’s just something I thought about. America faces changing things both politically and socially.
Is the lesson that politics IS social first and foremost?
How do you reach people socially?