Being middle aged is a weird position to be in. The boomers have refused to let go of their positions of power and have both their “news” outlets plus some level of digital adoption. The youngest generation that’s now adults grew up with digital in their hands before they could read. We may have ridden the divide between analog and digital, but we definitely dropped the ball when it came to voting out career politicians from the silent film era and failing to realize how influential online cults of personality could be in shaping the youth. It’s worth analyzing where we went wrong, what we can adopt, and what shouldn’t be adopted because grasping at what made them successful and trying to copy it is reactionary and desperate. I do think we really, really need to take one last shot at democracy (if we still have it) and run the dinosaurs not just out of their elected seats, but out of the behind scenes positions of power that dictate what “left” is in the US, because what they’re trying to maintain is left only because the right is fascist.