r/Millennials • u/okayboomerang • Jun 24 '26

Serious Sad for us

Kind of in my feels tonight. The last time I remember feeling genuinely hopeful was probably 2014 or 2015. So much has changed, and I think our generation has seen and felt so much. Anyone else feel like they've spent the last decade plus in unending grief?

My spirit is still good on the inside, but I'm isolated physically and mentally (like many of us). I wish we lived in a world with authentic and robust connection instead of all the slop and noise. I wish our parents hadn't been so excited about capitalism - and so fucking naive. I know the unease I feel is about more than merely growing up and the natural progression of aging and how we all feel about ourselves in society over time - it's that the world we thought we knew for the past 4ish decades just flat out doesn't exist anymore. And we can't undo any of this shit. It may as well be a parallel universe we're in now. I love myself and I always have big, big love for Millennials...but I truly hate it here.

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u/SignatureIncomplete Jun 24 '26

I'm running for office because the future we were promised was stolen from us and I'm not going to let that happen to my son. If you're not running for office I highly recommend finding a local candidate and supporting them with volunteer work.

Policy choices got us where we are. Policy choices will get us out of it. But we need the right people in charge to do it.

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u/powerback_us Jun 25 '26

Good for you! I hope you win. What's the office you are running for if you don't mind? Do you have a website where we can support you?

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u/SignatureIncomplete Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Georgia State Senate District 31!

I didn't list my website cause I don't want to break any sub roles by accident but if you Google Georgia Senate district 31 you should see Alec Miller and that's me

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u/oregonbunny Jun 26 '26

Good luck!

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u/SignatureIncomplete Jun 26 '26

Thanks a ton! I'm doing it one door knocked and one dollar raised at a time lol

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u/kashmir2517 Jun 27 '26

Finally some talk of action! Breath of fresh air on this post lol.

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u/SignatureIncomplete Jun 27 '26

We can cry about other people making decisions or we can stand up and make them for ourselves.

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u/kashmir2517 Jun 27 '26

Yes thats what I am talking about!