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If a toddler can get elected to the White House I'm sure a teenager can make some contribution.
Indubitably!!!
Bigly. As long as it's a funancial contribution.
A lot of teens are more informed than a lot of adults
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@Richard Jones most eggplants are more informed than the current president of the United States.
Why is education a prerequisite for political participation only in the young? At what age does Trump's love of the uneducated voter kick in?
Gate-keeping. Putting a prerequisite on something like this limits the conversation from the start.
Trump is a failure. He has always been a failure, and he will always be a failure.
10, apparently. At least that's where his lust for uneducated voters begins.
15 years in biology work as a field technician is not qualified to do that job anymore. America has moved from a meritocracy to a more strict class system. If you cannot afford to go to college, you are not white and rich.
Education on a topic is always a prerequisite for valid participation in the conversation, if one is not educated on the subject one has little to contribute.
Edit: case and point: Trump supporters have proven time and again that they are too stupid to validly contribute any substance to a debate.
How many times have tiktok teens successfully messed with trump? Lol it's obvious why trump is trying to squash tiktok, revenge.
Typical Trump - denial, projection, and revenge...
The youth clowned trump hard, they troll his campaign and it is BRILLIANT!! GOOD FOR THEM. TRUMP IS A ANCIENT DINOSAUR TO THE YOUTH. they want and deserve better!!
They completely outsmarted him with the Tulsa rally.
Despozble Hero Bingo. The Defense & State Depts. have legitimate security concerns with it, but since when did Trump care about legitimate concerns? It impacted him, so now he’s ready to do something about it.
I am one of those ppl who, after the Tulsa rally, went hard on the Trump campaign website HARD. I added thousands of dollars in all kinds of swag to my cart, and parked it. For days. Tying it up so no one else could buy it. And then I would add more from time to time, and eventually I... well, forgot to check out. That merch might still be tied up, meaning the campaign can't make money. I encouraged everyone on my social media feeds to do the same. The was an idea from a TikTok account. That was a few months ago, so I'm sure by now the backend of that store has changed the permissions and rules to clear out any abandoned carts after 20 mins of inactivity like every other online store does. Hmm... Now I feel the urge to shop for some shitty Trump swag. BRB.
The ones whining are the ignorant ones. They are terrified that those young people have educated themselves in the realities of modern life and are going to change it for the betterment of the many not the few.
@Aldous Huxley I think the sheep are sheering off their heavy woolen coats ready for action.
I must admit that sometimes I am a bit uncomfortable with some of the youth when they say shit like " I wish the boomers would all die". I just get visions of the Cambodian killing fields
Revolution
Yes. Youth today have even fewer prospects and opportunities than many previous generations. Naturally, there will be folk who would want to discredit their experiences with, and opinion of, the status quo. But the establishment is so extremely profit-oriented of late that they're investing even less on giving the new generation chances to 'sell out' and see the reward of ingratiating themselves to the system. Kinda like the carrot and stick except the one holding the stick has been nibbling away at the carrot.
I don't know - for all its supposed "power", there's no way today's "motivated youth" are going to achieve anything political by
- hashtagging
- occasionally taking to the streets and wrecking someone else's property
- and certainly not by revolution
Politics in the US is just too long a game to keep the "I want it now!" generation interested for very long once the appeal of the "personal theater/ look at me, I'm political!" aspect fades - and that's one of the realities of modern life. Many people who will yak all day on CZcams consider their "civic duty" already done... so, on the actual day, the people who are going to "change the world" can't even manage to get out and vote.
We have a lot of adults that "don't know enough" yet either, but there they are.
Absolutely correct statement!
Yeah, and one of them is President.
As a 37 year old just taking a moment to reflect on how my positions have changed and evolved over the years I can’t help but ask “does anybody ever”. Don’t get me wrong totally agree with the surface statement. Just thought it was a funny observation was all.
Trump is a failure. He has always been a failure, and he will always be a failure.
Fred B. Mullett I,m 66 and I approve you sorry for my English I,m French from Quebec .canada you are the next to go at the bat,I hope you will do a better job than we did merci again
Today's youth isn't relying on schools to teach them. The internet has opened up a whole different world view. I know it did for this 50+ year old.
That’s awesome a lot of people your age have let the internet infest their mind with lies propaganda and conspiracies
I’m 60. I was fortunate enough to get the internet shortly after it became available. I’ve been re-educating myself for many years now on history, economics, and sociology. I’m thrilled with young people being politically knowledgeable and active! It’s exactly what we need in this country.
It'd be better if their education, which is supposed to include socialisation skills that cannot be taught to isolated individuals or by teachers, but by socialising and learning, if that education was standardised around factual reality instead of wishful fantasies.
The internet, if regulated for facts, can be a supplementary tool of education. It cannot be a substitute, all the more so because on the internet, the truth is far too often buried under heaping mounds of online bullshit.
@@SantinoCorleon1 School lies to us as well and doesn't prepare us for life. At least the internet is more equal and my economic class won't decide the quality level of my education from the internet. As long as people dont like for flat earth theories, we gucci.
Carl Bailey hence the fact you have these online dark web fringe conspiracy theories making it into the main stream. For example Qanon
Actually, it’s the so called ADULTS who don’t know a damn thing about politics.
They know a lot about making money though!
100% agree. I was a high school teacher and my students, in West Palm Beach, FL, were very informed and engaged. They volunteered. They discussed the environment and racial issues. They were wonderful and they kept me on my toes. People who don't listen to our youth, aren't engaged with people who see things from a different viewpoint. Thanks for this.
What school i went to Suncoast?
Glitch on CZcams says you commented 22 hours before Beau posted. 😄
However still a rule is a rule - Second! 💐👍🏽
@@timbosqueeze8174, Santaluces. Go Chiefs! Suncoast is a great school.
I was going to say the same thing. I taught high school for many years and they often learn much more about politics and current events than are even taught in class. When they are interested and engaged they will make the effort to learn on their own time as well. I have had much better discussions with my students than with most adults.
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As a scientist, when I’m stuck on a problem I always seek out a “fresh” pair of eyes. That means someone who hadn’t been banging their head on the same wall - a junior scientist, a administrative assistant, a green house employee... They don’t necessarily come up with answers, they ask good questions that lead to the answer. Respectful asking and respectful listening and working together is what gets the job done regardless of age, race, gender... unless you don’t want to solve the problem. Then it’s important to kick down and use age, race, gender...to distract from the problem and divide.
Exactly!!!! When ever some one came to our crew, it fell on me to orient them. Day 1 was open eyes usually by day 3 there were questions about how things were done. I kept those and passed them up the line, with credit.
Some really good policy changes came from the freshest eyes
@K Bennett in my job some of the problems were stuck in the " that's the way it's always been done" hard to change ancient policy handed down for years
Perfect!
@@newatthis50
Often, when you hear "That's the way it's always been done", it's only been for 3 or 4 times.
Once people accept a new way of doing something, they quickly forget that there was an old method a short time earlier.
I agree. When i had a problem in my business it didnt matter if the employee i was talking to knew much. It was in the discussion that solutions were found, by me or the other
I've had futile attempts at intelligent political conversations with 60-year-olds. And when they can't back up their ignorant beliefs with facts from credible sources, they claim they know how the world works because of their age. One, they don't realize I'm pushing 50. Two, their age doesn't make them any smarter, wiser or more educated.
If a demented five-year-old can get elected to the Presidency, then surely young folks have positive contributions to make to public discourse.
I'm a millennial and the zoomers are more involved in politics now than my generation was at their age. The youth give me hope.
AOC is considered a young kid in the halls Congress. That should tell you everything.
I'm guessing those same people forget there was a "children's march" during the Civil rights movement
The images of that march are what pushed Kennedy to speak out against segregation and arguably became the turning point in the civil rights movement of the 60s.
@@aholland27 true.
Trump is a failure. He has always been a failure, and he will always be a failure.
Forgetting is assuming they ever knew about it beforehand at any point.
@@staceye2851 that might be true for a younger generation. The older folks knew and often like to refer to the images of the children's march as to say " see how far we've come?"
I've heard those talking points somewhere. Oh it was in literally EVERY ELECTION where young person was possible threat to "established" politician.
Trump is a failure. He has always been a failure, and he will always be a failure.
@@dariocarraresi1823 we Americans have to make sure he is by voting him out asap and in a landslide
I am seeing military recruitment ads on twitch. They should know why and what is being fought for before signing on.
@@Tosei0816 Perhaps one should ask the question differently:
If they are too young and uneducated to be politically active, why are they not too young and uneducated to ...
to go to war
to be put in jail
to have high education debts,
etc.
@@manub.3847 Yap. Tho, these ads are also targeting at 13 to 16 year old that doesn't have such problem. It's so easy to for a 13 year old to watch video game news, and then lead to online harrasment of streamers and celebrity in twitter. The idea that teens should be apol is just not feasible. They are already being used as pawn in the online culture war.
my 19 year old could school most
older folks in politics. I learn from him every day.
The word is all of us.
Completely Agree!!!!
My 20 year old provides me with some of the most intelligent conversations.
Challenges me (in good ways), broadens my perspective, furthers my understanding, listens and debates well.
They are the FUTURE!!!
Eat the Rich yes!!!
SPEAK the WORD absolutely. my son makes me realize how many of my moral standards have been eroded over time, and makes me self access.
Several years ago, a GOP incumbent was running for another term in my area and she did a talk at a high school. A 15 year old girl asked a legitimate question about the then current war in Afghanistan and Iraq. This adult woman dismissed her and patronizing. This was on the news. She lost her seat and showed no maturity or grace when finally conceding the race. She was the last to do so and was in what I call today full Karen mode.
In point of fact, tik tok teens have straight been SLAYING the stupid with mad truth!!
My 18-year-old has a better grasp of politics than many adults. He rationalizes, thinks thoroughly about the pros and cons of policy and politicians. He sees a big picture enough to know the consequences and benefits.
Good on you. Kids are usually reflections of their parents, after all.
@@thehellyousay I wish. My son has always marched to his own beat :).
My 20 yr old knows exactly what's going on. More of the issues affect him and his peers. He will have to deal with this long after im gone.
Yeah. He's not a teen.
Same here. He is very engaged. So much so I am learning more now than I did in school.
@Richard Jones By his age,he should be disgusted by TikTok
@@Remix2366 huh? He made a fun tiktok when we built our raised beds this spring.. guess he's not a real person then? Or not 20? Or not apathetic enough to be 20? 😒 Stop making assumptions based on age
@@CapedCrusader77 TikTok is mostly for edgelords and "Not Like The Other Girls" Girls. He's on the wrong platform. TikTok spies on you anyway.
Those excuses: "they don't know enough, they're not educated enough" - really means, "I haven't told them what I want them to believe yet."
I seem to recall a particular political party complaining about the indoctrination of kids. Maybe their complaint is less the actual process and more the sustenance - it's okay for them so long as it's the ideas and beliefs they approve of.
As the Hamilton musical said
“Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot”
Love the description young scrappy and hungry . I will remember that
just adam it’s an apt for description for the young currently. And honestly young scrappy and hungry are dangerous for the powerful
Rise up. When you’re living on your knees you rise up. To your brother that he’s gotta rise up. Tell your sister she’s gotta rise up. Rise up, rise up!
I have 9 grandchildren, their ages from 32 to 15, and am proud of every one of them. They’re intelligent, forward thinking and capable. Most of them can hold their own in a factual political discussion with just about anyone, and one could go toe to toe with the best of our “older” wannabe political historians. Like all of us, they know what they want to know, learn what they want to learn, keep what they need and leave the rest. When they’re growing up in our care they nurture the wolf “we” feed. If we are interested in what they have to say on each level of their maturity, they will find interest in the world around them.
@Sharon Green, wow, excellent points! And Bless you for all of those grandchildren! I have 7 currently, aged 8 - 2!
And let me tell you those 8 year olds have much wiser minds than many 3 times their ages!
I had 3 kids in 17 months {yes, twins the 2nd time} and we raised them to think for themselves from day one, almost and I am pleased to see the adults they have become!
Cyber Gramma Hugs!
It's grandparents like you the youth will look up to. Too many parents have raised their children to think like them rather than to think for themselves, when the world of their children and especially their grandchildren is nothing like their own and needs original thought.
Quintinohthree Gibran -
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
Maggie Rezac I have twins too!
@@sharongreen354 Wow! Small world. I am wondering where you got the quote above, as the story of my kids had an unbearably sad event and here comes September, the month of sadness for me.
*The young always have the most to lose when their elders don't understand or care about the consequences of their actions on the lives of the young.*
Thanks again Beau. People like AOC are a prime example.
Hey. I'm a junior in hs and I watch as many of your videos as I can. I try to educate myself as much I can (while maintaining my sanity haha). Thank you for talking on this. 💜
I proud that you do. I hope many of your friends follow the same path in some form.
Well informed youngsters like you are what gives me hope for my grandchildren's future
You picked the right channel when you picked Beau.🇮🇪💗
There is no sanity anymore. Just enjoy the ride. When you get a chance to grab the stick.
Stir the pot as much as you can
“Well, howdy there, Internet people. It's Beau again.
So, today we're going to talk about the youth. Those Tik Tok teens get involved in politics and how that's a bad thing because they don't know enough. They're too young. Too inexperienced. Don't really know what's going on yet. They're just not educated enough.
First, I would suggest that that's not quite as strong a point as those people who say it think it is. But before we get into that, I want to point out some historical realities, real quick.
When the Declaration of Independence was signed, John, Paul Jones was 28, you know the father of the U.S. Navy Henry Knox was 25. He went on to run all of our artillery. James Madison was 25. Betsy Ross was 24. Alexander Hamilton was 21. Nathan Hale was also 21, you know, he was involved in Dalton's Rangers, which was pretty much the forerunner to all American Special Operations.
Aaron Burr was 20. John Trumbull was 20 as well. He's the guy who did all the sketches of the British and American lines and went on to be known as the painter of the revolution. That painting you've seen of the signing - that was him.
Henry Lee the Third was 20. Two years later, he was Major Lee of Lee's Legion, and pioneered what we know today as maneuver warfare. James Monroe was 18. Lafayette was 18. He was a Major General by 19. In just a few short years later, in 1781 at a place called Yorktown, his troops bottled up Cornwallis and won the war.
I'm gonna suggest that young people have a very strong and illustrious tradition of being involved in American politics. I would also point out that if you're gonna say, well it was different back then, young people were better educated, they knew more, that that's not an indictment of young people today. That's an indictment of us. Because we're the ones responsible for their education. I would suggest that it is a citizen's primary job to make sure that the next generation is properly educated.
So, I’m not sure that our failure would be a mark against them. I would also suggest that perhaps it's better to get some more forward-thinking ideas. Some ideas that are coming from people who don't think everything's impossible. Who don't look to the past and see that as the future. Who aren’t stuck in denying that the world is going to move forward.
Maybe those are the voices we need to listen to the most. It worked out pretty well for us in the past. I would imagine that there's a whole lot of really good ideas floating around out there right now that are being ignored, simply because the person who came up with them was the age of Alexander Hamilton or Aaron Burr or James Monroe or Lafayette.
To suggest that age is the only thing that can qualify somebody or even a qualification to understand politics, to have an opinion on it, worth listening to, is just wrong.
More importantly, I would point out that those who are younger have to live with the consequences a whole lot longer.
Anyway, it’s just a thought. Y’all have a good day.”
Let's listen to the young folks for ideas on getting us out of this mess, not the old farts in power, I say this cause I'm an old fart.
Mark Durham Are you in power with the means to change things for the better for everyone even though that change would diminish your power?
Alec Morse mayor of Holyoke Massachusetts at 22. Running for senate today..
He's got my vote.
First thing that came to mind for me as you started to introduce the subject, was the lack of knowledge/ability in the older crowd to fact check on the internet and social media. If we're discussing knowledge base, younger people tend to have a better understanding of how the internet works and that anyone can post anything, so you can't just take everything you see at face value.
@Amanda W, you do raise an important point and I truly thank you for that. As a 5900 year old Gramma, as my brothers used to say, "I know just enough to be dangerous." I think it was a complement? 🤷♀️
So, here I am {not so much anymore, as they've just never believe me} fact checking various FB posts of specifically my 83 year old mom and my 50 something sister, a trained RN. It really isn't that hard to find the origin of their memes which is apparently all they can understand? I don't mean that as bitchy, just perplexed.
I can't count the number of times I've gently infoed them that they were regurgitating thoughts and crap from such groups as the White Supremacists!
And when and if they reply, you got it, "FAKE NEWS". 🤦♀️
But without the internet, do they know how to research? One EMP in the upper atmosphere is all it takes to say bye-bye to all that they know.
@@ChrisPage68 Yes they do! They know the internet research, sure because it is faster, but those interested know aswell how to search a library and read a book or two ...
@@ChrisPage68 Thank you friend for the tiny giggle that just slipped out with your reference to an EMP! 😊
To your point, that has been one that I have made often. Perhaps specifically with legal and medical knowledge.
In 1983, I graduated from a community college with an A.A.S. in Paralegal.
My two 'specialties' were Writing and Research and Trial Prep.
For me that entailed grabbing a six pack of Pepsi and several packs of cigarettes and barricading myself in the basement law library! 🔥🤘
As for the medical research that became so needed following the birth of my twin girls, literally to keep them alive! Circa 1985!
They were born with a rare Genetic Disorder called Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia!
So, nope no Internets then!
At the time, I had an uncle who was the head of the Biology Dept. at Morningside College in Sioux City, IA.
He literally brought me stacks and stacks of textbooks on the topics needed.
Today? My 36 year old son, still has his bookcase set up using the Dewey Decimal System! I totally love that! Peace!
Fact checking becomes tricky with so much disinformation out there. Just look at the bogus endorsements for hydroxychloroquin
Always like that you point out history that we did not know. Youth is our future
In a way, you should be upset that you weren't taught history thoroughly enough to know this already. You know, like when you've been shortchanged and it's too late to go back and raise a stink about it?
@@thehellyousay Never too late.
I knew Hamiliton and Burr were young from reading the book.
Did not know the others were not much older.
Another point clearly put and well-made. I wish all American people had you in their suggestion feeds.
We all should try and get this channel well known. I sure have.
If you told them the sky was blue, they would say fake news!
I share it with everybody I know with a different point of view to include the office of my Congressperson and Senators
When the status quo places you on top you will oppose change.
true that. The very people who fought the revolution and wrote the Constitution, passed the Alien and Sedition acts 2 years later.
Hippocrites!
Not always... It's not faith if you can see it.
I'd like to add that young people grew up with the internet, and in my experience are way more skeptical and discerning when it comes to evaluating sources compared to older generations. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain that "LibertyTrutherPulpit.com" is not a legitimate source for scientific insight to an older relative.
That made me laugh - with happiness! YES - young people can take this mess and turn it into a bright future - whether we allow them to or not!!! 😊
I got the "Grow up and we'll talk then" speech when I questioned our involvement in Vietnam. I was 15. I was right. The kids are alright.
What have you done by age 20?
Founding fathers: we made a country.
Me: ...I can scramble eggs with only a 30% chance of burning the house down.
Think any of them could cook a scrambled egg successfully? Most of them never touched plates or cutlery unless they were eating.
"Pans? Cook? Surely you jest. What do you think all these slaves are for, hmm???"
That'd be about the extent of their culinary experience.
i’ve been pretty proud of the younger generation and their response to the injustices we’re seeing regularly. it give me hope for the future. the o it people telling the to shut up and sit down are the ones that want to perpetually live in the 80s
"The uplift of a FUTURE generation, is the responsibility of the PREVIOUS generation"................Nuff said.
This is not “just a thought” Beau. This is it. Love that post. We tend to forget the world advanced because of the youth. Not 70+years old white men.
(Not JUST, anyway)
Nice! Glad you're covering this. I was one on Twitter encouraging you to check it out. :)
The average youth on TikTok making political videos seem far more informed on a lot of issues than the average person 30+ I know these days.
Why? They invest a lot of time into examining these issues and learning which side they want to be on. They are sick of our current establishment.
Plus, they actually have empathy. For their friends, their family, their fellow citizens in general. For the Earth, furthermore. They give me more hope.
Plus, religiosity is on the decline, especially amongst younger people. They're not predisposed to believing the lies of the talebangelicals, who have allied with the insane wing of the Republican party.
@@bdf2718 Yes, thankfully. Don't get me wrong, there is an entire Christian fundamentalist side of TikTok even among young people. Still, on average the youth seem less religious and more aware of the damaging lies told.
"young people were better educated back then..." uhhh no.
The youth clowned trump and troll his campaign and it is BRILLIANT!! Keep up the good work young Americans.
They're not yet jaded enough and indoctrinated enough.
Or bought by corporations?
Thank you Beau, well said.
One of your best ones yet ,sir and I am old . 🍺
I especially love when this attitude comes from people who used to say "don't trust anyone over 30"
Stupidity can be transmitted across generations, thus proving it is, indeed, infectious.
That's why I love AOC. She's young, intelligent, and scrappy!
30 yrs is not a teen
I'm only hopeful for the future because of my interaction with younger folks.
I can hardly relate to them on anything except basic civil liberties. And that makes relating on everything else a given.
My 15 year old grandson can tell you about all the key players and the situations that happened from the Ottoman Empire through to present day; including the wars, events, and people that led up to them. My daughter shakes her head because when he and his friends get together, all they talk about is what is going on politically in the world today and how it relates to history. Part is from the games he plays online, but a huge part is his love of history and the fact that he speaks with other teenagers online from around the world who share what they are experiencing and what they are seeing going on here in the US. I’m very proud of him and the youth of today who are speaking out and standing up for their future.
another Beau in the making!
I'm an old woman and willing to bet most folks my age are just plain terrified of losing control. It's time to hand it over to them, my generation has fucked up the planet long enough, and I hope and pray for my grandchildren that there's still time to reverse at least some of it.
Beau, I think a lot of our youth know more of what's going on than many, many of our older citizens! Especially those on the drumf side. Sorry, but it sure seems so! 👍💗✌😷🎃
So people are suggesting that young people "don't know enough" in order to have ideas about politics, yet those same people say that they "know enough" to get out and vote for policies that'll effect their future? Doesn't make sense. Another problem is that too many people look at who is saying something instead of what is being said to determine the validity of it. Good ideas are good ideas regardless of who says or comes up with them.
Great job Beau. Education is key including math, science and especially ethics. I try my best to encourage free thinking with my son so he can make his own correct decisions and not just be a carbon copy of me. Interesting how if you read comments from the right they tend to indicate that our children need more beatings in order to conform to the rights agenda. Hopefully our children do a better job than we've done.
"Those who are younger have to live with the consequences a whole lot longer." This a million times.
“I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.”
Thomas Jefferson
This just makes me hate Jefferson more. This guy was intelligent but he ruined it with his hypocrisy.
Scorpio Carnage Hypocrisies?
@@joshrose3195 He wrote the Declaration of Independence, right? All men are created equal with unalienable rights which are amongst them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. While the American Revolution was going on, he was in France. He never fought for his belief of independence from Britain. And he conveniently returned to the US after the war was over. He was also a slave owner. Hypocritical to say all men are created equal but it's okay to own people. And he says that he was against slavery but he only freed 10 people out of the approx. 600 enslaved people he had "ownership" of. Absolutely brilliant with his words and wit but not a man of principles.
Scorpio Carnage not achieving an aspiration does not make you a hypocrite.
@@joshrose3195 Words mean nothing if there is no action behind it. Look at the Marquis de Lafayette. Born as a French aristocrat, fought in a war that his other Frenchmen wanted to distance themselves from, and became a general. What is most important is that he actually bankrupted himself freeing enslaved people. An aspiration is an aspiration when someone is actually trying to fight for their goal. Doing the bare minimum or doing nothing - that is not aspiration. That is participation trophy at best and unmotivation at worst. I observe a man by what he is willing to do. Is he going to fight for what he believes in or is he going to just say the right thing but do nothing? The last thing, THAT is Thomas Jefferson.
Education! Times are different, easier in some ways, perhaps less physical hardship, but more complex in all other aspects. It’s not easy for kids to be decisive or to be firmly rooted like young adults of the past. Life is changing by the day if not by the hour. Our education needs to catch up with the changing landscape. Instead of emphasizing trade schools, we need more leaders and thinkers.
imo
People in power find all kinds of bs excuses to limit the power of others.
Considering the mess supposedly-educated adults have made, perhaps what we need-more than anything-is to empower them like never before.
Tangental: I find it sadly funny that so many people who believe in American exceptionalism claim we can't do what many other countries do in terms of healthcare, gun control, whatever because we're too big or too diverse or too whatever.
imo
You are SO right! We are exceptional...except when it comes to things that the donors DON'T want, so we can't do them. Or, "now is not the time."
Some people are simply being stupid for a longer time. Age is not equal to experience and experience doesn't mean shit if you don't learn from it. Unfortunately primary thing you can learn in US school is how heart-braking it is to see your fellow students being shot. Or how you should allow yourself to be bullied - that is your place n.... nerd.
Don't get me wrong there is plenty bad in other countries. But damn.
I heard this expressed at work as "there's a world of difference between having 10 years of experience and having one year of experience repeated 10 times."
This reminds me a lot of Orson Scott Card's Ender's series. Something about living with one's actions for a thousand years while your teenage siblings shape global politics...
And it was my kid who introduced me to the Ender series. 😁
@@susanbradleyskov9179 I thought they were YA novels until I read them. Holy crap was I wrong.
Card sadly has become a right wing nut job since 9/11/2001, he was raised Mormon and apparently did not fully escape the programming.
@@gileshabibula7006 I know that he was raised Mormon and stayed attached to the church, so conservative seems like a given. I don't know beyond that - it just seems like a lot of rumors. Who knows?
@@Lynwood_Jackson Search the web if you're interested, but understand -- it's bad. Really bad. Like, "having bio kids is absolutely essential to being a worthwhile human being" bad. ...No, I'm not joking, that's an actual example.
A call to action has no age requirement.
My extended family has actually made it a rule that we are not allowed to talk about politics or religion when we are together. How are we supposed to teach young people of different views if they deem it a forbidden topic?
My soon to be 19 year old daughter proudly wears your “Any wall your generation builds, mine will tear down” shirt. She told me last night that she believes Gen Z is going to change the world. She has my full support. ❤️✌️❤️
Choose your walls wisely. Don't knock the load-bearing ones down, or the roof will collapse.
The thumbnail and Dwight t-shirt do a great job of setting this one up. Well said, Beau. 👍
My kid just told me they’re posting signs up at NYU, “Please drop off food. I haven’t eaten in a day.” Same thing at Georgia in the dorms. All over tik tok.
there's a pizza place on MacDougal
Whut? College kids who can’t feed them selves, am I missing something here?
I must be....more info.
Send em Ramen noodles meanwhile. You don’t even have to cook them.
@Curve Planner, in some of the places they have been ordered to stay in the dorms. Do you know how much college cost? Some kids have no extra money for anything but the meal plans. At my school they don’t even have snacks laying around anymore because there is no eating on the campus.
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That’s the info I was looking for.
I am very much aware how much college costs, what it’s like to have 3 jobs and eat Ramen, too.
That’s not really the point.
The point is why are kids in school dorms if the food service is not working and that’s what feeds them.
I doubt any of those kids are sitting in their dorm rooms all day, they can go out like anybody else and get food. Funny thing is all those people Justin reminded us how young they were, knew how to find food, hunt, and owned property.
That’s a really different context in maturity for that age.
@Curve Planner okay! 😊 I didn’t know if it was sarcastic, sorry if I sounded rude, just so used to people being sarcastic online.
Today we begin homeschooling our 13 yo. A Beau segment/day already on the schedule. This is a good one to start with.
Along the same lines. As a woman my ideas are ignored simply because I'm a woman. Yet when a man says exactly the same thing as me he is listened to and praised.
Depending on who the man is. Factors like ethnicity, social class, employment status, disability et cetera can cancel out any perceived male privilege.
42 year old here that thinks the youth today has it much better figured out then my generation at the same age. I support the movements of young people today wishing that this could have happened in my youth, but the older people at the time didnt listen, im not going to continue that mistake.
Well, they can't really do much worse! It's time for us oldies to stop telling, start listening and just get out of the way.
We spend their childhoods telling them how smart and wonderful they are just to tell them to STFU they don't know what their talking about when they're older ! REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT...
good point
I grew up in a small town just south of Indianapolis. When I turned 18 and went to vote for the first time I was turned away (with all my classmates) by the local police chief.
That year (1976) there was a referendum on the ballot to choose between a swimming pool for the school or a second patrol car and deputy for the police. (The population was just over 4000).
The chief later denied this had happened and since only about 30 of us were willing to contest this, we got nowhere. Needless to say, we got a new patrol car and the chief got his 'Barney'.
I would like to think that if this happened to the current generation of youths they would be much better at getting their voices heard.
If I could go back to high school, knowing what I know now, I would have engaged in my government class instead of complaining about how bored it made me.
I love it! It’s time for them to get their feet wet.
In 2014, Scotland held a referendum on her Independence. When I saw voters wearing school uniform at the ballot box I remember feeling proud and optimistic about our future.
Then we lost.
Elderly people - who are the largest demographic because they choose to live their retirement in Scotland for it's clean air and clean water - were bombarded, daily, by propaganda that convinced them the Scottish Government plans would take away their pensions and crash the Economy.
Now the UK's economy is £2Tr in debt - even before we are dragged out of the EU which will lose us another £2Tr - and I'm guessing that most of those who voted to remain in the UK are now dead and no longer drawing a pension - or locked up in residential care at the cost of their entire pension income plus the remortgaged sale value of their home.
I don't blame the elderly - I just wish they spoke more often with their younger relatives.
Or maybe the older generation knew that Scotland would struggle on its own. Let's not forget it it was Scotland that pushed for political union with England after it bankrupted itself with unwise foreign ventures.
"Knew" - seriously? Maybe they _thought_ so, because the crap they being fed?
Since 2014 the Scottish Government has enforced all of the UK's Government "austerity" cuts, faced the same crisis from global pandemics, flooding and suffered the same scandals about the education system, ministers breaking lockdown and even ex-leaders facing trial for sexual assault. But the Scottish Government has still been the model of stability, balanced budgets, and progressive ideas so radical that even Scandinavian and Canadian jaunts have visited us so see if these ideas could work and can be repeated elsewhere. Boring Politics but effective.
Meanwhile the Westminster government campaigns have spoiled the political climate with a constant tirade of divisive rhetoric, filled the news media with extremists and charlatans, have persistently denied responsibility for any failure, and constantly shown they were totally out of their depth… certainly more entertaining, but… is that really what our elderly voters believed was better for the UK?
The argument that Scotland could not handle a crisis has been thoroughly debunked - pity that most of the people bought this argument are not here to learn from it.
I am a 17 year old teen. I started a political club in my school, have seen hurricane sandy and climate change in New York, started and ran a larger online political club for years. I am a student board member of a Charity today for my city, and I have a lot to say. When teens aren’t allowed to speak, foolishness festers, or worse, people in the Alt-Right with your same ideas take control. We’re on the cusp of an environmental and technological revolution from deepfakes to AI chips undermining mental equality to geopolitics itself being changed in ways physically inconceivable even 50 years ago. Embrace us, and help kids learn before others get to the voting age with no knowledge and a lot of power.
My 9 year old gets new information and introduced to new ideas almost daily. You're one of our civics teachers. Thanks
Hot damn! Love this message!
Greta Thunberg. Just a "Tik Tok Teen"? or Wise beyond her years?
She's magnificent!
@@Kidsinamerica What actually happened in her case is that here intelligence allowed her to recognize the narrative propagated by the fascist right wing was destroying the world and the future of her generation.
@@Kidsinamerica Oh dear. You are criticizing an intelligent teenager for not having a PHD in climate science. Well if you have a PHD in climate science then you may have a point.
I'm sure that she will take the Russian Dictator and the Orange Moron to task on their lack of support for the mitigation of man made climate change.
I'm glad that you can identify a "Lecture" when you see one. If you have any evidence that she is incorrect, then, please, show it.
The fossil fuel industry is making at lease 2 Billion Dollars per day from their products. I don't trust that they are being honest in their opposition to Greta. Do you?
After all, her generation will be affected by Global Warming so she is entitled to state her position on the subject.
Maybe, you should honestly investigate the subject before parroting right wing conspiracy.
Every few days you leave me truly speechless. This is the history our children NEED to be taught. Im in my forties...pretty well historically educated and i had no idea they were so young. Please keep teaching those simple truths that the world must know
"And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their world
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through"
The youth are going to the dogs. - Ancient Greek saying (I know. It isn't really. But it makes the point.)
Good video. The audio balance seems pretty left-channel heavy. Maybe a setting that changed when you had to record out of the shop because of the storm?
I am 61 years old and I need to go back to unfiltered history classes, unbiased. If there is such a thing, just to learn about the things they would not teach me
Eddie Cochran once sung:-
"Well, I called my congressman
And he said, quote:
"I'd like to help you, son
But you're too young to vote"
Well, they are not too young now, and sometimes it is good to learn by doing.
Good content. Has that left speaker audio issue of some of your older videos, just a heads up.
Oh no. I'm not sure why.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn it's been in a couple of the recent ones, but not very frequently
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn I thought it was because you don't like to amplify the right.
Glitch on CZcams says you commented 22 hours before Beau posted. 😄
However still a rule is a rule - Third! 💐👍🏽
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"Better educated" meaning not coddled to within an inch of their lives. Don't misunderstand me, I don't advocate children of 12 becoming primary earners for their households or apprenticed times the economic burden of raising them...although if the economy keeps going the way it is, my opinion won't matter...but keeping children under constant surveillance and limiting their experience I think is harmful to their development as adults.
And our public school system has become a joke over the past 30 years due to underfunding and overemphasis of "saleable skills" like coding and math, and teaching to standardized tests. Stop whining about paying for the education of other people's kids and realize that you are investing in the kind of community you want to live in.
*ahem*
(climbs off soap box)
P.S. not aimed at Beau, just the whiners he's discussing here
I find it hard to discern what your point of view is here. "Our public school system" is so widely varied based on where you are that your generalization is frankly offensive. How about we get school funding federally instead of based on the tax revenue of the counties the schools are in?
@@Dudeman9339 I find your offense weird, given that whole "No Child Left Behind" and other initiatives are federally mandated, and that's what I was referring to, but I'd never tell anyone how to feel. *shrug* I certainly agree that funding being tied to local property tax is barbaric and should be changed.
I should also say I have friends and family members who.are teachers in various districts around the country and have heard a lot of the same complaints.
Fort Hood Soldier found near Killeen Texas hanging from a tree was about 24 years old
Alot of the men and women that put men on the moon were also in their 20's and 30's.
Voting age is 18. Plenty old enough to be aware.
Yep. This is why Trump is going after Tik Tok. It's the digital equivalent of Nixon's drug war
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. Trump isn't that smart. More importantly, however, is the fact that many innocent people were, are, and will continue to be incarcerated for nonviolent crimes. Let's not forget how people of color are targeted far more often than whites in this situation, as well. Now, the second anyone gets thrown behind bars due to posting tiktok videos that aren't harming anyone, I'll be the first to say you're 100% correct.
@@jesussatanicchrist I guarantee his handlers are. They've been disrupting any attempt by the youth to organize since the 60s
Clearly a point that I will embrace in the future.
Thanks for sharing 👍🏽.
God Bless The Youth. Keep Them Strong, Keep Them Vigorous, And Keep Them Alive And Ever Forward Looking.
I did not realize that our founding "fathers" were teenagers and twenty-year-olds at the time of the War of Independence. Very interesting; thank you for bringing this up.
Kind of interesting that Trump went after Tik Tok in ernest only after his first campaign event was trolled by Tik Tok’ers...I admire anyone that speaks their truth. And who better than the youth?
Beau is my new American hero. Hi from the UK. I have been looking at you tube chanels for a few months, following Trump news, TYT etc. Beau is easily the most thoughtful and balanced commentator I have come across. I shall now subscribe, the first worth subscribing to.
Members of my extended family would protest when my kids joined in on 'adult conversations' when they were in their teens. Cause the spouse and I talked to our kids like the young adults they were. They needed to understand these subjects anyways, and there is no magic button that gives you adult understanding when you turn 18. Might as well start practicing when you're 13, 14, whatever. I was always so proud when my eldest stood up for themselves. They are 21 now and pretty bad ass in my humble opinion.
I would direct them to the late John Lewis and what a whole lot of students that did the sit ins. Martin Luther King was a young man when he started getting into good trouble. Bernie was a young man when he started out. None of us were Benjamin Button
I agree, Beau! Both of my teens are extremely informed and interested in politics. That’s our dinner conversations much of the time. Thanks for sticking up for our informed, interested, motivated youth.
I love Beau's history lessons! They were really that young, and yet liberated us from the Brits? Awesome!
Not to mention all those revolutionary kids were inspired by the words of what was considered an old man of the day - Common Sense and the 16 crisis papers by Thomas Paine.