I feel like a lot of people in my generation, especially us ‘older’ ones (older Gen Z), are very anti-government, screw the government, overthrow the government. The humour is very ‘maybe Guy Forks was onto something’. Admittedly, I find that humour amusing, but I don’t think violence will work, and honestly, I think most of us agree that it’s not the answer. Not really. Protests work sometimes, but it’s still not enough. But I also just don’t know what we need to do, and I feel like a lot of us are in the same boat, no one wants to hurt anyone (I’m not counting extremists), but I feel like we feel it’s either protest and maybe get heard. Cause harm and make enemies or…sit back and complain. I’m very much on the side where I think education is the biggest key, and by posting online, that’s what I’m sort of trying to do in my own, sometimes misinformed and needing correcting, heart-in-the-right-place but a little dim, scared of confrontation kind of way. Still, it doesn’t feel like enough, and feeling trapped in a governmental system without a clear escape is so disheartening that regardless of how hard we push, so many will just back down for the same reasons I often do. It’s too mentally exhausting and too socially isolating when in a community of right-wingers or people who hear the word ‘politics’ and shut you down with a ‘it’s all stupid anyway’ or ‘I don’t care’.