Democrats struggle to harness enthusiasm of Gen Z voters – By Gabby Birenbaum (The Hill) / Aug 13 2020
Naina Agrawal-Hardin is only 17, but she feels like her generation is running out of time.
The Ann Arbor, Mich., native, an organizer with the youth-led climate group Sunrise Movement, is a member of Generation Z, the cohort of voters born after 1996 that has already witnessed a lifetime’s worth of political upheaval.
Like many of her peers, the political and economic context in which she grew up pushed Agrawal-Hardin toward progressive beliefs.
“Gen Z, many of us have lived through two or three recessions, through the 2016 election, through a terribly mismanaged global pandemic, also against the shadow of the looming climate crisis, which we inherited in a way that feels unfair,” Agrawal-Hardin told The Hill. “With each of those different events that are universal across the American Gen Z experience, we’ve seen our government put profits above the wellbeing of people and of the common good….We have no choice but to demand better of our government.”
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