Turns Out, Young People Don’t Care about Politics.
They care about change.
I had the opportunity to sit down with a local high school senior and talk politics today and the results were both expected and unexpected at the same time. Here’s what I gathered from a few hours of casual talk over coffee with a 17
“Daddy Daddy, are we there yet?”
“Yes Dear, Wake up the rest of the family. It’s good news! Global warming is here, NOW.”
I’ve been told that the Chinese symbol for ‘crisis’ can have a dual meaning: Trouble or opportunity.
So the question becomes, “where is the opportunity?”
But First, How did we get here? Who’s to blame?
Dear Isabella,
I want to respond to your thoughts and religious experiences which your mother related to me such as, “Why do they try so hard to change your belief? Why the many rules? Why do they suffocate you?”
My expansive background may be of help. I had many years in my quest to find some answers.
I was saddened to hear of some of your experiences as to religion. I’ll start by sharing my experiences and include some of what I learned by condensing the massive amounts of teachings if you want me to do so in the future.
I was born in a Protestant church. One of the first strange experiences
Dear Greta, How did we get here? What events led to this out-of-control spiral? It seemed that America was the strongest and smartest nation in the world. So, what caused this dangerous back-stepping, this decimation of the American Dream, the unraveling of the American Middle Class?
In the 1920’s, the excess of capitalist
Today, more than 30% of Americans live in or near poverty.
In 1955, Tennessee Ernie Ford had a #1 hit that defined the poverty of the era.
” … You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go; I owe
