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I'm 76 and drive for Uber after losing my savings to my wife's cancer bills. I'm not sure how long I can keep driving.
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All the old people who are getting into trouble because of life, have had their whole lives to stear politics into a more social direction to prevent all of this from happening.
Reminder that GenZ swung Trump.
It's pretty hard to stear politics in a more progressive direction when the society you live in is uneducated as fuck and uneducated people turn into conservative voters.
I mean they also raised gen z so.
All I ever hear from Americans is complaining everything is shit, there's nothing they can do, nothing will ever change because others need to do it and not them which will never happen.
That way it will never change, if no one does anything and everyone is just perfecting their victim role.
Go educate people, get into politics, fight fake news, kill a health insurance CEO, etc.
Trump was the progressive candidate in that election. He offered change, Kamala didn't. Kamala was the 'business as usual' candidate.
If the D offer up a candidate on a change platform, they'd get the votes. But they didn't. Hopefully they do in '28.
I think you should look up the definition of progressive.
Change doesn't mean progress.
You're not wrong, but that generation has some wild variance in politics and leopards eat everyone's faces if you let them