Relational

It kills me that young people don't participate in civic life. Because of consumption patterns, we glamorize youth, so it's attractive to disdain politics. What we call immature is more properly the condition of being overwhelmed, and it ought to stir us to help. In childhood, relational positioning entirely overwhelms content, but adulthood begins when a reasoned decision is more important than loyalty. Trump can insist, but we should respond by encysting. Joining the fight with Trump gives him fuel, when instead we should extinguish what he ignites. In the past, generational change wore down racism and other prejudices, but today, filter bubbles might be weakening that effect. Younger people don't feel as safe talking out a half-formed idea, and the unwillingness to do that cripples participation in civic dialogue.