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In reply to the discussion: Will the youth of America be willing and able to stop fascism? [View all]dalton99a
(95,357 posts)10. People often forget the economic difficulties younger people are facing
Rent, gas, college tuition, groceries, you name it.
It is a daily struggle to survive.
Most don't have savings and don't own a house.
Most cannot afford to travel to protests like the RW-financed Proud Boys
They are not stupid. They know Donald Trump is a moron, and Republicans are lying authoritarian assholes
They are stuck, and they don't have a leader - like Mario Savio:
We were told the following: If President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received, from a well-meaning liberal, was the following: He said, 'Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?' That's the answer!
Well, I ask you to consider: If this is a firm, and if the board of regents are the board of directors; and if President Kerr in fact is the manager; then I'll tell you something. The faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to behave any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product. Don't mean ... Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
- Berkeley, December 2, 1964
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A big chunk of America is toxically mentally ill because of the churches and religious leaders they
PufPuf23
Jul 2022
#39
It's a shame their elders did such a shitty job raising and educating them. nt.
Mariana
Jul 2022
#44
60's era also deeply influenced by Vietnam and the draft. Nothing like being sent against your will
hlthe2b
Jul 2022
#6
So I guess that you think that since my generation accelerated the end of the Vietnam War
Chainfire
Jul 2022
#18