I mean, why would they?
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Millennials: First time? Welcome to nihilism. There's cookies and coffee in the kitchen.
Nihilism feels a lot like Methodism
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, dude.
Wait.... and other generations do?
I'm a younger millennial. I was still pretty young during Bush jr term 1 and while there was certainly distrust of Cheney and Bush there was a general positive note towards the actual office of the president and a congress that while slow still did things. I hadn't learned about Newt's fuckery nor really understood Bush v Gore. Then there was Iraq and it took a long time before we heard about the lies used to start the war. Then Obama was overall a positive influence on the presidential reputation(deservedly or not is debatable). Congress (at least Rs) certainly lost much of my trust under Obama with the shutdowns and nominee holdups. This is when I started paying more attention. Then, of course Trump made any trust in the office 0 (if not negative) and Rs lost all trust from the repeated hypocrisy and plain evil and of course the impeachment debacles. Biden was improving trust in the office of the president at least somewhat before Gaza. Congress on the other hand (Dems included now because of Manchin, Sinema, Feinstein, etc) has lost any remaining trust I had.
I can't speak for others but while I generally always disliked congressional representatives I naively had faith in the institution overall for longer than I should have.
What have either branches done for Gen Z? I don't blame them
What has either done for any generation after boomers?
Well, as a millennial, I also have little trust in Congress or the presidency, so this also checks out.
Why should we have any trust in any part of the government? It’s not like they care about the bare minimum, like giving us a future that isn’t full of climate catastrophe
I haven't had any trust in Congress or the presidency in 60 years
Yeah no, anyone with sense has no trust in it. Congress hasn't been good in... my life time at the very least. Presidents can be ok, except they're tied down by Congress and Supreme Courts which just suck right now.
I heard there were bad congresses since our founding, though I know historians rate our most recent ones as the worst.
"The Supreme Leader doesn't know what the rest of the bureacracy is doing! Even though they used to be one of them. And even though they make no attempts to reform it. And even though they needed the willing support of the others to gain the nomination in the first place."
Gen X here to report that it doesn’t get better with age.
Congress is weird in that, in general, people fully approve of their representatives, they just hate everyone else in Congress.
This is old, but you get the idea, 16% approval of "Congress" overall, but then you ask about THEIR representative:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-own-representative.aspx
"About half (46%) of Americans say they approve of the job the representative from their own congressional district is doing. This is on the low end of what Gallup has found historically, although it hasn't asked this question often and not since 1992. From 1990-1992, Gallup asked Americans this question eight times, with approval ratings ranging from 49% to 66% and averaging 58%. In a lone 1977 reading, 55% of Americans approved of their congressional representative."
I guess there is hope for the mark II boomers.
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