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This empowering essay comes from a millennial woman who is angry about the status quo. And no wonder; millennials face a difficult future thanks to the policies and activities of we baby boomers. I worry so much about the future for my children. I worry if climate change will result in my children facing uncertainties regarding enough food and water in coming decades; I worry if they will have economic opportunities that will enable them to have children without living in poverty and jobs that won't require long hours with little pay; I worry if my daughter will have the opportunity to decide for herself when to have children; and I worry what kind of world we all will live in if treaties like the TPP are ratified. And millennials are worried about these same issues. Those are the stakes in this election. It is kind of that simple.
Excerpt: If anything concerns me at this pivotal moment, it's not the revolutionary tremors of the youth. Given the Great American Trash Fire we have inherited, this rebellion strikes me as exceedingly reasonable. Pick a crisis, America: Child poverty? Inexcusable. Medical debt? Immoral. For-profit prison? Medieval. Climate change? Apocalyptic. The Middle East is our Vietnam. Flint, the canary in our coal mine. Tamir Rice, our martyred saint. This place is a mess. We're due for a hard rain. If I am alarmed, it is by the profound languor of the comfortable. What fresh hell must we find ourselves in before those who've appointed themselves to lead our thoughts admit that we are in flames? As I see it, to counsel realism when the reality is fucked is to counsel an adherence to fuckery. Under conditions as distressing as these, acquiescence is absurd. When your nation gets classified as a Class D structure fire, I believe the only wise course is to lose your shit. See the full article here.
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AuthorI am a yoga instructor, author and activist. I wrote The Diamond Tree to inspire women to take chances. Even if the outcome of any given risk is different than expected, there is something for the community and the individual to gain from it. Archives
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