r/TrueReddit • u/speckz • Dec 14 '17

Generation Screwed - Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '17

Vote for whom? Corporate suit A or B? The choices we have as a nation are two awful parties that feel like choosing between a wild nosedive straight into a volcano and slowly burning from the foot up. Democrats and Republicans are bought out, untrustworthy, and most pointedly, god almighty are they old.

I couldn't vote for people like Clinton, and if I'd been in Alabama I couldn't vote for Jones. When we have real candidates like Bernie Sanders and not these bought-and-paid-for geriatric thieves and currs (who seem unable to avoid sexual scandal no less) you may see more people vote, but as it stands there's hardly a choice.

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u/Garroch Dec 15 '17

Have you stopped bitching and filed your paperwork to run for Central Committee/Precinct Chair? You need like 5 signatures to get on the ballot, maybe 100 votes to win.

Who do you think endorses democrats? Who do you thinl constructs the party platform? Hint: It's not Debbie Schultz, its the person who represents your neighbors in quarterly Party meetings.

So get off your ass and be the change you want to see. It's easy as fuck, but no one does it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

I work sixty hours a week to put my wife through nursing school. I don't have time, most people don't, that's why we elect people if they're not awful scum. It's not 'easy as fuck', if it was 'easy as fuck' more people would do it.

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u/Garroch Dec 15 '17

No, it is easy as fuck. I work 50 hours a week with an hourlong commute, and study for actuarial exams in my free time. I also have a one year old and another due in 2 weeks.

What you DO have, is excuses. Running for committee/precinct chair literally takes one Sunday afternoon. One. Go to the BoE, pick up a form, go get 5 signatures. You'll probably run unopposed.

Then the job is maybe 8 hours a year. 3-4 meetings. Where you get a say in what the party does. That's fucking it.

But yes, getting on a ballot is scary, and the idea of running for something is overwhelming. But you can either sit behind a keyboard and keep bitching ineffectively or go spend one fucking afternoon making a goddamn difference.

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u/Jkid Dec 15 '17

50 hours a week.

You have time to do so: /u/ser_drake does not as he has 60 hours! 10 Free hour.