![]() They liked Bernie (oy!) and are more likely to post political stuff on TikTok than talk about it in person (eh?). The ones who follow track with what you would expect based on the near-record youth midterm turnout and those snazzy Harvard surveys: they're increasingly impassioned and see political participation as necessary because we are in a war over basic values and whether they get a future. ![]() Talking to him it became clear that his friends are split in two groups that represent this age bracket: the ones who follow what is going on, and the ones who don't. ![]() He is also much more of a people person than me, to put it mildly, with a diverse group of friends. I would like to think he would have even if we didn't live together, but *when you live with me you ARE voting.** He thinks Biden is "such a creaky old grandpa, like the rest of them, at least Kamala gives us someone nice to look at on TV," (I reminded him our Dad is basically the same age) but voted for him and the Democrats both times because "I pretty much agree", and the Republicans "are like Christian terrorists who are giving us a bad moment." ![]() For background, bro is 22 and voted in 2020&22. ![]() Dispatches from the land of the youth! I talked with my little brother recently about this "disconnect" our Professor adressed yesterday between accomplishment and awareness. ![]()
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