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Well, tall people have it harder with pumping blood, so you might be mortaller.

I'll compromise and say it's a little of column A and a little of column B.

It's true the Boomer boomers took away a LOT of the bedrock of modern democracy, capping off with the reign of Reagan and the whole greedonomics of the 80's.

But the younger generation has only been led to believe they're powerless, it's just that the actions they would need to take up at this point have become massively uncomfortable and the corporate wing of our federal government has had free reign to spill comfort all over us every day. We are a manipulated population.

It's really hard to mount organized, democratic resistance and grassroots community action when you're going to face massive amounts of anonymous hate, threats and backlash from even friends and family for championing... checks notes ...clean water and medical care, while alternatively you can retreat to Discord where you have a polycule of various other people who feel too deeply about the world that they have chosen escapism and fantasy and air conditioning and a sheltered world where nobody is going to trample their feelings.

Not saying there aren't principled fighters out there, it's just that it's much, much harder to get the general, scrolling public to pay attention when everyone just wants to scroll their feeds and check out after working 18-hour shifts to stay alive.

This isn't an insurmountable problem but we would need enough people to suddenly feel uncomfortable enough to set aside their daily discomforts and start organizing for a better tomorrow, but the internet has a way of attacking you for wanting better things, so we also need to do something about the internet.