Just putting this up to contrast with this post and because Eli Valley is a great political cartoonist.

  • Frog-Brawler
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    122 months ago

    Who said all is fine and people should grin and bear it? Last I checked, there were several protests happening at universities across the country.

    One thing that I can mention as my experience… as a 40 year old, I was the youngest person at the local Democratic Party meeting last time there was one…

    I wasn’t there in support of what’s going on, I was there to attempt to influence the party. I’ve been trying to convince them that the way to gain more votes is actually shifting further left.

    My takeaways from that experience…

    1.) People in their 20’s should be showing up to the meetings and shifting the party left, but they’re not.
    2.) The party is only going to listen to people that do show up… which seems like the average age was probably 65.

      • Frog-Brawler
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        42 months ago

        They don’t seem to be incredibly active in my area unfortunately, otherwise, I’d be there 100%. Their closest chapter is in Orlando, and that’s about an hour south of me, they’re not in my district whatsoever. Once I move to CO, I’m hoping to sync up with DSA.

        I signed up with the SRA a while back and that was $35 wasted. Their closest chapter was in Jacksonville. They never reached out to me beyond sending me a link to discord (which I don’t use). When I wrote an email asking for info, I was ignored.

        Gotta get out of FL, but we all know that…