In my day, we passionately opposed Nixon, the Vietnam War, etc. etc. Universities were taken over by student activists. Things were pretty tense then, too. And look at us now.
lol
Not the same.
You guys were opposing a war that had highly questionable motives, no win in sight, the government was repeatedly lying what was happening, and no outcome where we would "win".
This is over a guy "liking" two Trump tweets.
See the difference?
i would think she's referring to the overall climate, not specific events repeating.
that's the difference i see.
What is interesting to me, is how did a group of kids (from the 60's and 70's) who became very mistrustful of the government, very much wanted the government out of their lives - become people who bacame a government that enacted the largest (and worse) liberal social programs in history?
they didn't like the government at the time. in their mind they're changing it to be a better government. not like every other mindset doesn't do the same.
Making sure we are talking the same thing... the liberal social policies of the 1960's - mid 80's was created by the very same people that were "anti-establishment". These anti-establishment people enacted policies that created larger and more powerful establishments.
And what was the result?
The deep corruption we have today.
Who could have guessed?
And what will this millennial government look like? So far pretty damn bad.
depends. we survived their push at the time and did they really destroy everything? seems every admin along the way has had a hand in that. i don't believe in 1970 they said "hey, lets cater to the hippies and give them more control." quite the opposite - i think they were ignored at the time much like now. have a protest, go braless for a few days (i love those days) and get in the street screaming the world must be a better place.
in time they moved on and the country did as well. i don't put that as ground zero for the crap we've got going on today. i do believe as normal in a "power structure" one side keeps taking more and more until it breaks.
we *are* at a breaking point of some sort or fashion today.
now, while i can point to the "snowflakes" out there i can also point to my nieces and nephews who are of that age and work their asses off to survive in a world they didn't create. the impact we feel from this are jobs shifting to more service related (uber, door dash, wal mart pick up / delivery) and other industries are going to shift because of the habits of this generation.
for example, millennial's rent more, buy later. i read a story how this is killing the "starter homes" and could have an impact on things. ok, so people rent their houses now vs. sell them. i can name 3 of my friends who rent houses for at least a side job. they adapted to the business needs out there.
capitalism i suppose.
is it any wonder the youth coming out today don't want what we're handing them? high debt, bad foreign relations, corrupt governments and the like? would you welcome that as a hand me down from your parents?
i think in time they will grow up. things like fake news, screaming for headlines and the like, well they're nothing new, we just see them faster. don henley - dirty laundry was all about negative news. "we sure could use a little good news today" - ann murray was it? early 80s?
25+ years later we're bitching about the same things.
to me that tells me far more things in our lifetime are more universal than we give them credit for.
in all that light - no i don't think the millennial's will destroy our gov any more than we destroyed it under our own watch.