El-Sayed: But it is on us to have the empathy to ask, what is it like to be young now? If you’re 26, you were one year old when 9/11 happened. Our country has been at war for most of your life.
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 20, 2026
In 2007, we had this catastrophic financial crisis for which the banks were not held…
El-Sayed: But it is on us to have the empathy to ask, what is it like to be young now? If you’re 26, you were one year old when 9/11 happened. Our country has been at war for most of your life.Millennials, or Post-Millennials, or Amillenials, or Gen Z or Y, or whatever (fuck labels. I hate being called a Boomer.), look at the world they were born into and ask: “Why is everything so fucked up?”
In 2007, we had this catastrophic financial crisis for which the banks were not held liable. Chances are you or your family or a neighbor lost their home. Donald Trump came down the hideous golden escalator when you were 15 and has been a fixture of politics for your whole adult life. You are 26.
If you are young, think about it. We’re always like the young people do not seem to want to get engaged. If that is all I have ever lived, part of me is like, to what end?
We have to understand what it is like to be young these days and the incredible act of faith it takes to be invested in your politics, to believe that you can actually solve those problems.
There’s supposed to be a pitched battle between Boomers and everyone else. But it was the generations that turned the tide in Minneapolis against Trump’s authoritarian goons, and turned public sentiment against ICE and DHS and Miller. As Pound wrote to Whitman, it is time for us all to realize we come together as the sons and daughters of pig-headed fathers, and set that aside, and “Let there be a commerce between us.”
For the good and the healing of us all.
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