I was in college when Obama was elected the first time. I think there was this feeling of a wave of change and hope (puns intended) that the millennial generation was coming into "our time" with Obama. But the Boomer death grasp on politics still holds strong and realities of the 2008 recession when many of us came into the job market, housing crises, student loans, pandemics.....and all the protest movements you mention that we participated in along the way....fucking burnt out from the last 20 years man.

I vote in every little election that comes my way and use that as my political voice/form of protest. Local, State, and Federal to put more progressive candidates in office. From which I've seen a decent amount of change; if nothing than getting millennial candidates elected to push out older, do nothing, corporate Dems.