Our lives, our sacred honor and our Democracy are all on the line November 3, 2020. Each Generation approaches this kind of tipping point in history with a different attitude. GenX (Born 1961 - 1981) believe individual responsibility solves all problems. They expect nothing from government and receive nothing. The majority of GenX will be on the losing side of the election in November.
Millennials remain incredibly optimistic because they know who will win the election and lead America out of this multi-crisis era. Millennials will continue to adapt and change, and fit into whatever happens. Millennials experience all the chaos, destruction and turmoil in society. How do they remain optimistic?
Optimism saves Millennials from following the path described by the current Administration. Millennials believe in Community and learned to be risk averse. Millennials believe you don’t trust the individual, you trust the group. Millennials have been told they are special since they were born and so they take care of themselves because everyone expects great things from them.
There will be tremendous wealth destruction over the next 5 to 10 years as the fossil fuel industry wealth degrades and their influence on politicians plummets to nothing. The old social order also gets destroyed with the shift away from Republican and Conservative values toward Democracy and collective values.
As then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover wrote in his 1922 book American Individualism: "Individualism has been the primary force of American civilization for three centuries.” Individual responsibility will degrade and collective responsibility championed by Millennials will prevail in 2021.
Political scientist Stephen Skowronek said in an interview in November 2016:
“If there’s going to be a reconstruction following a failed Trump presidency, it’s going to be something completely different than what we’ve seen before. Somebody has to come up with what that’s going to be. That’s a job for political action, not political science.”
In 2020 and beyond, happiness will be based on a collectivist society not individual wealth. Collectivist teams are where everyone is making decisions collectively, this results in more of a consensus decision making model and typically the team feels responsible for the success collectively. The Biden/Harris nomination positions Democrats to take political action by creating collectivist teams that reject individualism offered by Republicans. As a result, Republicans will be reduced to the minority party for decades after the Democrats success from 2020 through 2028 enters the history books.
What about Baby Boomers? Joe Biden is one of the oldest Boomers alive today. The top leaders in a time of multiple crises have always been from an older generation at the time. There are GenX and Millennial leaders supporting specific agendas within the overall Democrat agenda. However a Boomer generation leader was expected to step forward and lead a collective political action.
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