Skai Jackson: The poster child of the authoritarian activist left

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Huh, I didn't think you'd be a proponent of the "demographics is destiny" line of thought. Usually the people who trot it out are either libs (who salute it as the magical solution to their political incompetence) or far-rightists (who see it as the end of civilization and whatnot).

Anyway, no, this is ludicrous. The current structure of American society has a clear and obvious way in favor of the far-right and against the far-left (just look at how the police treats the Proud Boys compared to BLM) and this isn't going to magically change when more brown people get in. It's just not how societies work.

It's definitely going to change when the activist left of my generation starts to get into government and craft policy. AOC is merely a harbinger of what's to come. When the Bernie Sanders/2008 financial crisis generation starts to get involved in US economic policy... that's when it'll get bad.

Nevertheless, I appreciate your optimism and I hope you're right.

Oh come on. The activist left is just the noisiest part of the Zoomer generation and it isn't bound to have any power. It's not like boomer politics became dominated by Weather Underground as they aged into power. This just isn't a real issue.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Oh come on. The activist left is just the noisiest part of the Zoomer generation and it isn't bound to have any power. It's not like boomer politics became dominated by Weather Underground as they aged into power. This just isn't a real issue.

We're talking about a generation that went through college being told that the Weather Underground was something they should emulate.

I guarantee most young people have absolutely no idea who the Weather Underground was. Sure of the 10% of 18-22 year olds who are actually dialed in to politics, maybe a third hold these views but I see no reason to think that percentage would also apply to the 50% of young people who will start voting regularly as they enter their 30s.