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Lädt ... The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform Americavon Charlotte Alter
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"A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it); they are utilizing big tech but still want to regulate it (because they understand how it works). In The Ones We've Been Waiting For, TIME correspondent Charlotte Alter defines the class of young leaders who are remaking the nation--how grappling with 9/11 as teens, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, occupying Wall Street and protesting with Black Lives Matter, and shouldering their way into a financially rigged political system has shaped the people who will govern the future. Through the experiences of millennial leaders--from progressive firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to Republican up-and-comer Elise Stefanik--Charlotte Alter gives the big-picture look at how this generation governs differently than their elders, and how they may drag us out of our current political despair. Millennials have already revolutionized technology, commerce, and media and have powered the major social movements of our time. Now government is ripe for disruption. The Ones We've Been Waiting For is a hopeful glimpse into a bright new generation of political leaders, and what America might look like when they are in charge"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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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. (