Charlotte Alter
Autor von The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
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The profiles of multiple young politicians in the millennial generation are interwoven, detailing how they came to decide to enter the fray of elected office, especially when it was unlikely they would win elections (spoiler alert: all of them did, the youngest at age 20). What set this apart from a lot of such stories is that Alter started in their actual childhoods to get their complete (sometimes exhaustive) origin stories, including IM chat logs and emails.
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Secondary theme: millennials are the products of technology, whereas baby boomers "were the products of television, not print," like their preceding generation.
Alter writes a well-research, but overly meandering treatise on what motivates millennial voters, which is probably enlightening to all. Millennials are dissatisfied with the status quo for many reasons, the most important of which is being saddled with debt from college educations, which have not resulted in well-paying jobs, forcing them into underemployment, a lack of affordable housing forcing many to live at home, costly health insurance, etc. They have also been witness to horrific act of violence and nature, such as 9/11, school shootings, unjustified police killings of minorities, and hurricanes. Other influences are huge and growing inequality, massive governmental deficits, the likelihood that social security will fail before they can receive benefits, and the inability of current leadership to protect the Earth they will inherit.
Integrated in her book are profiles of some up and coming millennial politicians, most of which is focused on Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who seem to be the most visible of the next generation of leaders. Each has developed a compelling narrative, but with contrasting styles. Substantial focus on the policies and abhorrent behavior of President Trump, and how these new leaders, mostly Democrats, but some Republicans, have dealt with both.
I am glad to have read the book because I think it is insightful, but wish it had been shorter.… (mehr)