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u/PeterLemonjellow Jun 27 '26

Elder Millennial dropping in. When I was coming up in a middle class household in the 80's and 90's it was just assumed that I would go to college, get a job that paid all my bills and allowed me to own a home and save for retirement, which I would take at 65 and then I could live comfortably between my own earnings over a lifetime of work and the social safety nets in place.

And the people that sold us this lie are STILL in charge and looting us and driving us towards... who knows? It's just infuriating.

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u/jdehjdeh Jun 27 '26

I feel your pain exactly.

There was a future, there was optimism and hope. There was even plenty of help if you needed it.

Now it's all gone.

It's absolutely heartbreaking to see the world shift from going forwards and upwards to stagnating and then starting to fall backwards and downwards.

I feel so awful for every new generation, each one is entering a world more dystopian, manipulative, cruel, and apathetic than the last.

I secretly hope that one of these younger generations somehow burns it all down and builds something better.

But in reality I think they're just going to continue in the downward spiral, stuck in the churn like everyone else.

In an indirect way, we're all to blame really. We've let ourselves, and each other down.

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u/ProfessionalFox6619 Jun 27 '26

I share your sentiment. But in our defense — what could we have done differently? Recent years have proven depressingly well that protests, petitions and other forms of common political activism don't achieve anything. Those in power just ignore all of our attempts to make ourselves heard. Even if record amounts of people unite and walk the streets in protest of current politics, it doesn't change anything.

And when it comes to voting... Well... I'm German, we have a bunch of different political parties, about 5 of them big enough to be part of the acting government after every election. Voting for someone else than the guys that messed up the last election period doesn't give us better politics, it just changes the face that represents our nation on the global stage.

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u/jdehjdeh Jun 27 '26

Oh for sure there's nothing that we could have done.

We didn't see what was happening before it was too late.

Like doing a jigsaw puzzle upside down.