Gen Z’s understanding of politics has been shaped by economic recession.
, including in my home state of California.
After 10 years working at all levels of campaigns and government, last year I launched my campaign for city council in Campbell, California, the community where I’d grown up. If I win, I will be the only millennial and person of color on a city council that representsI knew that when I ran, I wanted to do things differently. The old way of doing politics wasn’t working. So I set out to not only contact every single voter in my district myself, working to bring in nonvoters and first-time voters.
Six weeks ago, though, I began to feel like I was living through a slow-motion nightmare. With the first signs of the pandemic on the horizon, I knew that families and workers everywhere would soon face an impossible choice: risk their lives by commuting to their jobs every day, or give up sorely needed paychecks and find themselves unable to afford rent or basic necessities.I soon realized that my story, and my fight for a representative government, is more important than ever.
It’s up to each of us to write — and share — our own story. Our collective stories are more powerful than any of the existing structures of power. There’s more than one way to cope with a traumatic experience, and we all have different responses, all of which can be valid and beautiful forms of healing.
But having come of age in one global recession and now watching another unfold, I know that on the worst days it can be hard to see the future ahead. Those moments are exactly when we have to hold onto the possibility of creating a new world together, of working to create a fairer, more just society in the years to come. We can take the experiences that leave us at our lowest, channel that energy outward, and one day tell a new story.
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