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The optimism of this young generation will confront strong headwinds given the challenges ahead for the nation. What they have going for
them is an understanding of the need to compromise and confidence in the democratic process.
Many in my generation, Gen X (people in their 40s through their mid-50s), became largely disillusioned, cynical and disaffected by the
politics of the 1980s and the subsequent financial problems of the late 2000s. Many turned away from the public sphere.
Gen Z appears to be quite different. The youngest generation - despite living through a series of even greater national crises - seems to
have come into adulthood more resilient and more engaged.
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And while other generations might have had their downsides, they also had moments of American triumph, Della Volpe claims. Boomers
had Woodstock and the civil rights movement. Gen X witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Millennials came of age during the election of our
first-ever black president, Barack Obama.
But Gen Z?
"Except for maybe Netflix, reruns of 'The Office,' Amanda Gorman, Halsey, Simone Biles, and Lil Nas X, Gen Z hasn't caught much of a
break," Della Volpe writes.
One of the shortcomings of "Fight" is that Della Volpe seems to take the word of teenagers as an absolute truth.
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