What's your generation and how would you change your government?

[JasonBlack]

(02-17-2022, 03:50 PM)galaxy Wrote: Me: Civic/Adaptive borderline, more Civic than Adaptive. Born in January 2001, currently aged 21, student, from Missouri.

last year for Civic births is 2004, you're in firmly my squad bro (1991 Millennial here. guess that makes me middle wave and you late wave)

Quote:The shortest answer I could possibly give would be "every country should imitate Scandinavia in most ways* unless there is a really good reason not to." Of course, it's actually a lot more detailed and complicated than this. I'll try to find the time to do an Eric-style write-up of it all (though actually, most of the things in his post I would write as well).

*exceptions include things like drug policy, one of the few things Scandinavia doesn't do well

The best ideological description of me is probably "center-left," but I try to avoid ideological labels, because I am very frustrated by the people (read: Boomers) who have decided that the morally righteous thing to do is to pursue their ideologies to the ends of the earth regardless of consequences, completely ignoring the "facts on the ground" and having no regard for anything even resembling pragmatism.

I'm not saying having "values" is bad - quite the opposite, in fact - but I am saying it is often very bad in politics when people insist on doing what their "values" demand rather than what the situation demands. Two Senators who seem to have become fixated on "bipartisanship for the sake of bipartisanship" come to mind.

I certainly sympathize with the second half of this. It's one of the reasons I decided this thread was the best way to approach things.