re: #42 Belafon

There was a poll last year that showed about 1/3 of white millenials have negative views towards minorities, about the same percentage as the boomer generation. The one saving point is that this group is getting smaller as a fraction of the total population.

Yeah, those kind of things back up my worries. And while it’s true the share of the total population is getting smaller, it feels like between the media fervor and new, repeated institutional barriers constantly popping up, that might not translate into an electoral shift for years. It scares me, and my personal advocacy continues to run into people who shoot far away to the right out of spite, and folks who shrug and simply say ‘they’ve got a point’ and pull the ‘both sides same thing’ bullshit.

I’ve lost so much of my will for politics because of how impenetrable it continues to feel and yet I feel compelled to keep following it because I have a duty to keep informed. It’s become a bit of a depressive masochistic spiral, and the Trump phenomenon has just made it feel even worse.