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[gunshots]
We're talking about millennials here
and their scatterbrained attention deficit disease.
Millennials, we all get it.
They're somewhat annoying, to say the least.
[man] A recent survey suggests six out of 10 millennials
cannot change a lightbulb.
[man 2] What the hell is wrong with your generation?
Generation Snowflake.
- [overlapping shouting] - Black Lives Matter!
[man] I know millennials who are outstanding.
A couple of 'em even voted for President Trump.
[screaming]
[woman] Well, it looks like it's time
for millennials to grow up.
With 32.1% of millennials living with their parents.
We are not leaving! We are not leaving!
- They're lazy. - Lazy.
Lazy entitled narcissists.
[Michelle Rodriguez] Am I, like, a millennial?
Bitches.
Yes, sorry, [bleep].
I mean, like, who decided that I'm part of that generation?
Some anthropologist somewhere
who's just like, "Yeah, that's the line.
[sighs] It's official."
I don't know what to tell you, I'm horrible at this stuff.
I don't like telling people what to do.
You ever googled me? [snickering]
I'm like the example of like, "it's okay to [bleep] up."
[camera clicking]
'Cause I'm trying not to dictate
what millennial is, you know what I mean?
Let me take that from the top.
So, what are we gonna do?
The media would like you to believe the story
that millennials are a bunch of lazy narcissists.
Which is ironic, because it's up to us
to fix all the problems the world faces today.
From international migrant crisis,
to wealth inequality, to climate change.
That's why it's time to set the record straight
about our generation.
This film is about our true and untold history...
How we fix climate change
and how we win back our future.
MAN: CiCi Battle, take one, marker.
Are the cliches about millennials...
- Uh. - Lazy?
- Uh-huh. - Narcissistic?
- Uh-huh. - Entitled?
- Uh-huh. - Self-absorbed?
Okay.
Do I think we're lazy? No.
Do we care about the things that everyone
thinks we should care about? No.
Do we think we're narcissistic?
Mm, you know, everybody got a little piece of that in them,
you know, that's okay.
What people try to do to millennials
is what was done to them.
I think there's multiple things that I've overcome.
I am a Black woman living in a world
that in every turn tells me that I'm not enough,
and tells me that I'm not beautiful.
I'm the director of Young People For,
a national long-term leadership development program
for young folks.
But specifically how we do leadership development
is through the lens of social justice.
So, everyone who comes through the program
develops something called a blueprint for social justice,
which is their campus or community action plan
how they wanna build a better now.
The suicide rate for LGBTQIA+ youth,
it's two to seven times higher than straight youth.
I was almost lost to that statistic,
and I just don't want to see that happen anymore.
So, I think the work that I do, making sure that the identities
of queer and trans people of color
that come from low-income backgrounds are reflected,
so that my people don't have to face what I did.
[CiCi] Young people already have the answers,
but what's missing is the access, opportunity,
and specifically the resources to help them get there.
I think that our world seeks to separate us and divide us,
whether through systems of oppression
or the structures that are built into our policies,
even the ways that our neighborhoods are set up.
And so, there's something really radical
about bringing people together around a common interest.
I teach young folks, and I think that everyone
should have some type of role
within the youth, whether it's a coach,
or a counselor, or a teacher, after-school teacher.
I know for sure that young folks
are always going to be the voice of change,
because they're the ones coming with the fresh ideas.
[CiCi] As a Black woman in this country,
my survival is tied to access to education
and access to fair housing.
My survival is tied to reproductive justice.
I can't choose not to care
because millennials, we're living the issues,
and this is our reality.
The MLKs of the world are here already.
You don't have to be a certain age to be a leader.
The people who are feeling the issues have the answers,
and we need to step aside, let them lead,
and support them along the way.
[Dan Schawbel] Every generation has always
negatively stereotyped younger generations
and positively stereotyped their elders,
saying they're wise and willing to mentor.
And the difference now
is that social media and traditional media
has amplified the negative stereotypes.
I think the reputation
and the stereotypes
that millennials have gotten
has set a precedent for what people expect.
And so, millennials, it's up to them
to bust this stereotype.
[music]
[Renaldo Pearson] I attended Morehouse College.
It's the alma mater of notable freedom fighters
like Dr. King and Julian Bond.
Naturally, I took a deep dive
in civil rights movement history and ecology.
Understanding the civil rights history,
you know, juxtaposing it to Michelle Alexander's book,
"Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,"
you know, I've gotta get involved in the fight.
I didn't see enough folks who looked like me
at the decision table... Certainly not voicing
the outrage that I had about the system.
So, I got involved as a criminal justice advocate.
I said, literally, my grandparents
did not sacrifice their lives for the right to vote
just to see the vote of their grandchildren
purged a generation later.
And that kind of began my path on this road of activism
and political engagement.
I'm an organizer with Democracy Spring.
[man] There were mass arrests
along the steps of Capitol Hill today
as more than 1,000 protestors converged.
[woman] Several hundred people sat down
asking to be arrested.
This event is all about people
reclaiming their voice in government.
I got arrested, forced out, misdemeanor charge.
But that's a badge of honor,
and I'm gonna share it with my kids one day.
[music]
[David Burstein] Like the millennial generation or not,
have your frustrations or feelings about them,
the reason that people should really care
about this generation, is if you wanna understand
the future, you have to understand this generation.
[man] Attention, attention, everybody!
[Jason Dorsey] There's like 80 million of us.
We're the most diverse generation
in the history of the United States.
We're the largest generation in the U.S. workforce,
and we're pretty much gonna change everything.
[man] The police are not the problem.
The problem is the system.
Of course there are millennials that are entitled and lazy.
There are Gen X-ers that are entitled and lazy.
There are boomer... There are just people
that are entitled and lazy, so yes,
some millennials fall into that category.
But wouldn't it be a disgrace
if a quote-unquote "entitled generation"
continued to kind of go on this sleepwalking,
"yes, I will go do this till the age of 65" mentality,
and instead kinda said, "yeah, we're gonna use
that opportunity, that privilege, to give back."
[Ana Kasparian] The majority of millennials
identify as Independents,
and then about 27% identify as Democrats,
and 17% identify as Republicans.
So, there are a lot of similarities
among most millennials.
They're more socially liberal.
They want gay rights.
Equality among races.
They're more likely to want these things
as opposed to baby boomers.
[Lindsey Horvath] Millennials increasingly care less
about where you were born
or, you know, what religion you practice,
or you know, who's in your bedroom at night.
And we care about who you choose to be as a person,
or how you're bettering yourself
in the community around you.
That's who you are as a human,
and that's what we wanna know about you.
[Jason] We recently did a national study,
and one of the questions was,
"How would you define yourself? Male, female, other?"
Right? And what we found is,
people that would define themselves
as male or female were much more likely
if they were a millennial to pick "other"
purely so their friends who would check "other"
did not feel excluded.
I mean, that's a massive shift.
How many boomers do you think are gonna go check "other"?
[Michelle] Speaking of baby boomers,
before we talk about where our generation is going,
we need to talk about where we came from.
Neil Howe is a sociologist...
Author, demographer, economist.
[Michelle] ...who studies how the cycles of American history
repeat themselves.
[man] Neil Howe, coauthor of the new book "Generations,"
what's it all about?
Well, "Generations" is a whole new way
of looking at how the past shapes the future.
Along the way, we discovered some outstanding patterns
in history that seem to be recurring.
We found, for instance, that every generation
belongs to one of four life-cycle types
that seems to repeat in the same order over time.
There are four basic types of generations.
There's the hero archetype, like the greatest generation.
There's what we call the artist archetype,
like the silent generation...
Heavily protected in their youth,
and they tend to be improvers.
There's the prophet archetype.
They're born right after the crisis
and they come of age as young adults
during the awakening.
And then, you have the nomad archetype,
which is like Generation X...
The totally individualist, left-alone kind of archetype.
These repeating archetypes take place
within a series of seasons
of history, and four turnings.
Turnings are the result
of this generational evolution,
this aging of generations up.
We define a turning as a period
that's about the same length of the generation,
and each turning is an era in which each generation
is moving into a new phase of life.
We think that turnings, just like generations,
repeat in cycles of four.
History suggests that third turnings
eventually end in fourth turnings.
The fourth turning is the end of the cycle.
So today, we are back in that era.
[clock ticking]
[Michelle] So, four generations is about 80 years.
And about every 80 years...
[alarm clock ringing]
there's a major crisis.
About 80 years ago,
America experienced an economic crisis...
and a man-made environmental crisis.
And then, we entered World War II.
[gunfire]
It was a bleak time.
[Neil] The fourth turning usually manifests
in a number of events and issues that come up
which represent a perceived threat
to the nation's very survival.
[Michelle] Forged from these hardships
came the G.I. Generation.
[gunshot]
The women built tanks and bombs.
The men fought in battles of epic proportions.
And together, they won the Second World War,
and they helped liberate the world from fascism.
They became known as a hero generation.
[Neil] We give each of these turnings names.
The first turning we call a high.
We think of a high as a period
when institutions are strong, individualism is weak.
Society feels like it's more than the sum of their parts.
The last period like this was the American high.
Basically it lasted from the end of World War II
up through John Kennedy's presidency.
[swing music playing]
[Michelle] While the silent generation
were still in their childhood,
the young G.I.s had returned from the war.
They married, and the privileged ones
settled in vast numbers into suburbs.
The white middle class was ballooning
and the American economy was booming.
And when things are going well, what do people do?
[sultry music playing]
They have lots and lots of...
[record scratching]
Babies.
Now, this was before the internet.
There wasn't much to do.
[Neil] The second turning is an awakening.
An awakening is a time when everyone
tires of all the social conformity,
so it's a turning toward the individual.
The last time we remember a turning like that
was obviously the late '60s, 70s.
[Michelle] As those babies became young adults,
the baby boomers were told...
Turn on, tune in, drop out.
♪ War, huh, yeah ♪
♪ What is it good for? ♪
[Michelle] They lived through the era of war in Vietnam...
the draft, LSD, love-ins,
and the shootings at Kent State.
Leave this area immediately.
[Michelle] Theirs was a time of extreme experimentation
and extreme disruption.
Throughout the late 1970s, birth rates dropped
due to the birth control pill.
[announcer] The pill.
[Michelle] And the divorce rate climbed,
the economy sunk,
and a smaller generation of children was born.
♪ War! ♪
Which became known as Generation X.
This was a time when our culture
looked down on having children.
Oh, shit!
What's wrong with my baby?
[screaming]
[Neil] A third turning, individualism is triumphant.
Institutions are disrespected, not trusted anymore.
These are all decades of cynicism and bad manners.
This would be like the 1990s, the 1920s, the 1850s.
They all have the same flavor.
[music]
[Michelle] And then, the values of those nonconformist
baby boomers took a complete 180.
♪ It's a brand-new day, I'm Mr. VIP ♪
♪ I'm gonna make some money, it's good to be me ♪
♪ Ooh, yum-yum-yummy ♪
[Michelle] They were done with acid and free love,
and were now into...
[sniffing]
The key to success.
[Michelle] ...cocaine and the free market.
A new era of hyper consumption and extreme materialism began.
It was time for the largest generation in history
to give birth to an even bigger generation
that would come of age in the new millennium.
And they would call us millennials.
[harp strumming]
Oh, it works!
[Michelle] Suddenly, people cared
about having kids again and raising them right.
- It's me. - [children] What?
[Barney] That's right!
A mirror will always show you somebody very special.
[music]
[man] Welcome to America's trophy culture.
[man] Everybody ready for some trophies?
[kids cheering]
These days kids get trophies for participating.
We lost almost every game this season.
[woman] It sets the bar pretty low.
[Michelle] But as we came of age,
cracks began to appear, and the media narrative
of the perfect world we were promised.
On this day in 1991,
Rodney King, viciously beaten
by L.A. police officers
at the end of a high-speed pursuit.
[woman] Orenthal James Simpson not guilty
of the crime of murder.
[Michelle] Subconsciously, we concluded that celebrities
play by a different set of rules,
and that fame makes you more important than others.
♪ Bones sinking like stones ♪
♪ All that we fought for ♪
The disconnect between the world
that we were raised to believe in...
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
[Michelle] ...and the reality that we were inheriting...
Indeed I did have a relationship
with Miss Lewinsky.
[Michelle] continued to grow.
[man] ...believe 25 students have been killed.
[woman] Eighteen people have been killed,
six of them children.
[woman 2] There are 95 people inside,
of them, 17 below the age of 10.
[Michelle] But the moment that truly marked
the end of our innocence
was a moment so devastating...
it would leave a permanent scar on the subconscious mind
of an entire generation.
[loud rumbling]
[people screaming]
♪ Bones sinking like stones ♪
And if we look at the world that we were sold,
the world that we were promised...
♪ When I grow up to be big me ♪
[Michelle] ...versus the world that we got...
♪ All of us are done for ♪
what is the underlying context of our generation?
The message that we received is...
[explosion]
you are not...
[Lily Comba] I have anxiety today,
just like doing simple things...
Going to an amusement park, going to a concert.
When the fireworks are going off at Disney,
why is my first thought, "Oh, this would be
a perfect place for a terrorist to attack"?
It's a very anxious way to live your life,
and that's just how, you know, our generation grew up,
is in fear, really.
[Michelle] While we were getting mixed messages
about the reality of the world at large,
something else was taking place.
[fanfare playing]
A new era was coming into being.
[dial-up modem chirping]
We found an antidote to being unsafe.
We found a way to fix that problem.
Connections, friends, being liked.
We found safety in numbers.
[Mark Zuckerberg] These are some of the moments
that I'm really proud of what we're doing, right?
I know that we're making a positive difference
in people's lives.
And I know a lot of you are gonna have questions
about this, so I wanna be clear that we have designed this
with privacy and safety in mind from the beginning.
[music]
♪ Post it, tweet it, share it, like it ♪
There's a lot of research that shows
that we are increasingly anxious, depressed,
fearful, unhealthy society.
And I think that technology's a big part of that.
A lot of reasons why so many millennials
suffer with the depression
or the anxiety, is because everybody
puts their highlight reel out there.
There's who they are in their day-to-day lives,
and then there's who they project themselves to be.
♪ Post it, tweet it, share it, like it ♪
♪ Share it, like it ♪
[Adam] You see a lot of people that spend their days
taking other people's lives in,
and just, this person's in India,
this person's got a new job, this person just got published.
This person's dating someone who's really attractive.
I look at that stuff and I'm like,
oh, man, my life sucks.
♪ Tweet it, share it, like it ♪
♪ Share it, like it ♪
[Christine] Because there's sort of this expectation,
especially thanks to social media,
that "Here I am with my selfie,
and I'm happy all the time, and my life is great,"
they're repressing a lot of their emotions.
And so, that's leading to a lot of depression.
So, if I'm feeling sad
and I don't have the tools and resources for it,
and I feel ashamed about it,
I'm gonna go to my doctor and talk about it,
and they're gonna give me medication, because...
[snapping] That's the quick fix.
[Preston Smiles] Because we've been so advertised to,
we're having to figure out how to be bigger
than our base desires.
Because we were drugged as children
and given labels like ADD and all of that,
we're having to navigate those things.
[Christine] One of the main reasons
this is the most over-medicated generations
that we're seeing is because they're constantly
comparing themselves to the outside world,
and they're terrified to make the wrong decision.
[Michelle] This was a warm-up for what was to come next.
Because we wanted to live as perfect avatars,
a lot of us dreamed of getting a college degree.
But that dream came with hidden costs.
[toy xylophone chiming]
[babbling, laughing]
My name's Carole,
and I have over $500,000
in student loan debt.
How am I gonna pay for your college?
I mean, honestly, like, the way that it was all presented
was, "This is normal, this is what people do."
Many of today's grads owe more than $100,000.
College tuition has gone up 234%
over the last 20-some-odd years.
[woman] Millennials mired in debt, it's massive.
[Adam] There isn't really a path for people
coming out of college now.
First of all, they've just spent $200,000
on an education that doesn't really prepare them
for the world of work, and puts them
in a pretty precarious position going into their 20s,
because they can't get a job, and they have all this debt.
So, they're forced to take a job they don't want.
[Preston] I think a lot of people have this
internal sort of conflict where it's like, your parents
are saying, "You have to go to school," right?
'Cause the parents... In the parents' mind,
they want the kid to be safe.
But that world doesn't even exist anymore.
[Alan Collinge] In the, say, mid '90s,
student loan debt stood at less than 100 billion dollars.
Just in the past 10 years, we've gone from 300 billion
to 1.4 trillion.
So, it is an exponential curve,
and it's reaching the vertical part
of that curve very quickly.
[teapot whistling]
[Carole] They won't refinance my interest rate
and they're insanely high.
So, that's 10 years of paying on these loans,
and it's still more than the cost of a house, so...
I mean, it's pretty criminal.
[Alan] 63%... so 27 million
of these 44 million borrowers
are currently unable to make payments
on their student loans.
[Dan] The effect that student loans have had
on the millennial generation, it's prevented them
from getting married,
starting families, buying houses.
It's really pushed back their adulthood.
[Alan] The stories that I've seen come across my desk
are extraordinary.
Many suicides where people just couldn't handle the pressure
of their debt.
- [baby fussing] - [Carole] My own personal debt
is definitely what holds us back
from being able to even consider owning a home.
Definitely not the American dream.
[laughing]
[David] People are saddled with, you know,
student loan debt in... in huge ways.
But we have to remember, that's only actually a fraction
of the country, 'cause it's only a fraction of the country
that's going to college.
[Tamara Draught] Having a college degree
is pretty much a requirement for achieving
any kind of middle-class security in our economy today.
And when I let people know
that only about one-third of even young people
have college degrees...
These are journalists... They're like,
"What? That's it?"
[Michelle] About two-thirds of our generation is stuck
in what's called the wage labor, or gig economy.
We face an impossible choice...
Get the college degree and the debt,
or don't graduate from college,
and get stuck in a dead-end job.
60% of people making minimum wage
are millennials.
If you work for tips... And many young people do...
You can legally be paid $2.13 an hour.
Today, what we have is the proliferation
of what I call the bargain basement economy,
and this is this massive, massive amoeba
of low-paying jobs with no benefits,
with erratic schedules,
that really outnumber professional occupations
by about 3-to-1.
[Michelle] The number-one job for a millennial man
in America today, college degree or no...
is driving a vehicle.
And where are those jobs gonna be in 30 years?
Driverless car.
[Michelle] As our generation became aware
of just how screwed up the system was...
a lot of us started to get involved.
Activism... we got political.
And for most of us,
our first taste of American politics
was filled with hope.
[music]
For many of us, 2008 was the first year
we could vote.
We were pivotal in electing a man
that embodied our generation's view of diversity.
[Barack Obama] Tonight, because of what we did
on this day, in this election,
at this defining moment, change has come to America.
[cheers and applause]
[Preston] When CNN announced that he won,
everybody just kinda sat there like, "Whoa."
[Corbin Bleu] That was the first year
that I was able to vote.
Having our first African American president
was a huge milestone for us as a generation.
[Alexi Panos] We had a movement,
an uprising with Barack, a movement of people
who were sick of the old politics
could come together and say, "Let's utilize this voice
"that we have called the internet,
and let's reach people like me who never cared to vote."
2008, I think for everybody across the board,
it shook everything up,
and we got to see the power of the internet,
and we got to see the power
of the millennial generation in action.
Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
[Obama] For even as we celebrate tonight,
we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring
are the greatest of our lifetime.
[woman] The stock market is now down...
[woman 2] Let's talk about the speed
of which we are watching this market deteriorate.
[man] 'Cause we're now down 43%.
[man 2] We haven't seen anything like this
probably since the Great Depression...
[Michelle] From the 1929 Great Depression
to the 2008 Great Recession was almost exactly 80 years.
[clock ticking, chiming]
Neil Howe has a name for this type
of recurring crisis.
He calls it a fourth turning.
We think that America entered a fourth turning in 2008.
It's a time of death and rebirth
of institutional life.
All of these entropy trends toward individualism
and lack of sort of organization
eventually culminate in sort of a crisis for society.
[Erica] I remember driving through the neighborhoods
of these massive, like, single-family homes
that all these affluent Black families had lived in.
They were all foreclosed.
Suddenly, like, families that I had known
were either homeless, near homeless,
and these were families that just a year or two before
weren't even close to the brink.
[woman] 11 million homes that their mortgage
is more than the value of their home.
We're doing a... Serving an eviction on you.
You have to get a change of clothes, stuff like that,
and take off in about 15 minutes.
Well, I have my son upstairs and he's sleeping right now.
Okay, you need to wake him up.
In the 1930s we had bread lines.
Venture out before dawn in America today
and you'll find mortgage lines.
[Roza Calderon] I came to the U.S. as a refugee
from El Salvador.
I was two years old and the war was rampant.
My mother, who actually worked as a secretary
for the military government,
she knew that the only place
that we would be able to have an opportunity
to actually make it was here in the U.S.
She risked her life, she risked never seeing us again
to cross the border to give us that opportunity.
When I was actually starting my family,
I realized that we couldn't afford to have a child.
Both my husband back then and I made $10 an hour each.
We could not even afford daycare.
I've been trying to pay for school,
I've been trying to pay for my mortgage,
I've been trying to get a better education
not just for myself, but for my daughter.
[woman] The vote comes just as nine
of the nation's biggest banks
reported losses of 82 billion dollars
while paying bonuses totaling 33 billion dollars
to employees...
Banks that took taxpayer bailout money.
One of the things that happened to me
and millions of other Americans
was that we not only lost our jobs,
we lost our homes, we lost our families,
we lost our spouses.
And we lost our sense of security.
Even though Obama represented hope and change,
there was zero accountability
to those who crashed the housing market.
Not one executive went to jail over it.
The people united will never be defeated!
Whose street? Our street!
[woman] The protests are spreading
from cyberspace to streets all around the country.
[overlapping shouting]
I have done nothing wrong!
[man] There is high unemployment
among young Americans
'cause this economy is having such trouble,
and young people are having a difficult time...
[man 2] Let me break it to you...
- But young people... - All you have to do
is take a shower, and they can get a job
if they went to college.
[Ana] Occupy Wall Street was an important movement
that I believe was undermined by the mainstream media.
[woman] Here's what I saw.
It's not just a bunch of dancing hippies protesting.
There are all kinds of people there...
Babies, teachers, cheerleaders,
Uncle Sam-ta, and... that.
Seriously? What are they protesting?
Nobody seems to know.
[man] The federal reserve system
is printing money out of thin air
to bail out the banks
so they can buy your foreclosed home.
[Renaldo] Nonviolent direct action
is civil disobedience.
It is putting your body on the line
to do what John Lewis calls
getting into good trouble.
Civil disobedience, nonviolent direct action,
is not the liberal or conservative thing to do.
It's the right thing to do
when unequal and unjust laws stand in the way.
[music]
[Jay] A lot of people argue that Occupy was a failure.
But actually, it was incredibly successful
insofar as it helped acquaint the country
to the conversation about the 99% versus the 1%.
The Occupy organizers, a number of them
started to rethink, "How do we bring about social change
through electoral politics?"
This platform became the people for Bernie.
[crowd cheering]
How many people here are dealing with student debt?
Raise your hand. Whoa.
[Christine] Bernie Sanders really spoke
to a new generation of voters.
[Nina Turner] When you look at the sea of people
that he attracted, you did see the millennial generation
out there in full effect.
That generation is sending a signal
to Gen X and to the boomer generation
about the type of future they want to inherit.
[woman] Welcome to the stage activist and acclaimed actress
from the "Divergent" series, Shailene Woodley!
[Shailene] I'm 24 years old, and for many years
I was the farthest thing from calling myself political.
Can we just acknowledge how beautiful this day is?
Look at how lucky we are!
I know it's hot, but it's beautiful!
I'm so grateful to be here.
A lot of people feel like their voices don't matter.
- Does your voice matter? - [crowd] Yes!
[Shailene] I felt like I didn't have a voice in politics.
And I spent months doing a crash course,
educating myself, learning, being inspired
by people around me who were political.
And what I've realized is that all the suffering I see,
all the oppression I see,
all of the fear and the sadness,
every single thing that I care about
eventually end up in politics.
So, whether I like it or not, I have to be political.
[man] The single largest campaign event
of the 2016 presidential election.
[woman] Senator Bernie Sanders!
[crowd] Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
Bernie! Bernie!
And now, to Vermont.
How do you cast your 26 votes?
[cheers and applause]
[crowd chanting] Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
I move that Hillary Clinton be selected
as the nominee of the Democratic party
for President of the United States.
[cheers and applause]
[Michelle] So, what really happened in 2016?
Well, a couple of things.
First, the polls showed that Bernie had a better chance
of beating Donald Trump than Hillary did.
So, why didn't Bernie run as an Independent?
After all, he definitely had the support.
The short answer is America is a two-party system,
and that system has been invaded.
Take a good look at your beloved candidates.
They're nothing but hideous space reptiles.
[crowd gasping, screaming]
It's true. We are aliens.
But what are you going to do about it?
It's a two-party system.
You have to vote for one of us.
He's right, this is a two-party system.
Well, I believe I'll vote for a third party candidate.
Go ahead, throw your vote away!
[evil laughing]
[Michelle] America's two-party system
sets up a lose-lose scenario for third party candidates.
Here's how it works against them.
If we take the entire electorate
and boil it down to 100 voters,
those on the right vote for a Republican
and those on the left vote for a Democrat.
Those in the middle... The 5 to 10%
who might vote either way,
actually end up tipping the election.
But let's see what happens when we introduce
a third party candidate.
If their progressive, the progressive vote is split,
and the conservative wins.
If the third party is conservative,
the conservative vote is split, and the progressive wins.
In this system, the winning candidate
usually wins with less than half of the winning votes.
If Bernie had run as an Independent,
he would have split the progressive vote
with Hillary Clinton,
and both of them would have lost.
Thank God that didn't happen.
The second thing that happened in 2016
was that even though 80% of millennials
were registered to vote,
only 50% of us showed up to the polls.
Why is that?
Disenfranchise... to deprive of a legal right
or some privilege, especially the right to vote.
They didn't have to physically take away our right to vote
or prevent us from voting.
All they had to do was convince us not to care.
In total, 102 million people did not vote in 2016.
In other words, our two-party system
actually disenfranchises
almost half of the voting population.
But there is another way.
In other countries, like Australia and Ireland,
they use ranked choice voting.
Here's how ranked choice voting works.
Instead of choosing just one candidate,
you rank candidates in order of preference.
So, let's say your first choice is mathematically eliminated.
Your vote automatically goes to your second choice.
Ranked choice voting is important
because the majority of Americans actually agree
on the big issues...
and America is actually a purple country.
Ranked choice voting would give us something
we desperately need to be a true democracy...
A third or even a fourth party...
unlike the current system which always pulls us apart.
And that's exactly what happened in 2016.
[applause]
[Hillary] I know how disappointed you feel,
because I feel it too.
And so do tens of millions of Americans
who invested their hopes and dreams in this effort.
This is painful, and it will be for a long time.
But I want you to remember this.
Our campaign was never about one person,
or even one election.
It was about the country we love,
and about building an America that's hopeful, inclusive,
and big-hearted.
This loss hurts, but please,
never stop believing that fighting for what's right
is worth it.
[cheers and applause]
[Michelle] Even though the 2016 millennial voter turnout
was weak, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote
by almost three million votes.
That means that almost three million more people
voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.
[crowd] USA!
[Michelle] If you're wondering how the candidate
who lost the general election became our president...
Nobody knows the system better than me.
[Michelle] ...let's go back to answer
a very important question.
Why didn't the popular vote count?
[man laughing]
Well, due to an outdated pro-slavery contraption
called the electoral college in America,
we vote in districts.
After each census, which occurs every 10 years,
representatives at the state level
redraw the district lines.
To keep themselves in power, these representatives
use advanced software to cut out dissenting votes.
It's called gerrymandering.
It is the very thing that makes many of our votes not count.
After Obama was elected in 2008,
red states worked hard to elect officials
who would redraw key district lines in 2010
to lock out progressive votes.
Then, in 2013, an important part
of the Civil Rights Act was overturned
by the U.S. Supreme Court,
making it okay for mostly white Southern districts
to turn away people of color from polling places.
So, now you know why 2016 was such a cluster[bleep].
In the wake of the election, a youthful mix of rage
at a broken political system
and the desire to do something grew.
The Me Too Movement...
Time's up! Time's up!
To the Women's March...
We are here for the women of the world!
To Black Lives Matter.
- Hands up! - Don't shoot!
I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!
[Michelle] But there was one area of resistance
that didn't quite get the attention it deserved.
[Shailene] When you enter Standing Rock Reservation...
you see the beginning of the revolution
that we are all a part of.
[crowd] We are not leaving! We are not leaving!
[Michelle] This was about an oil company
that wanted to put a pipeline over Native American grounds
which we had granted to Native American people
as a result of treaties.
[Shailene] This is a pipeline that originally was meant
to be built in Bismarck, North Dakota.
And when the people... Mostly white...
Found out that this pipeline, when it breaks,
would compromise the integrity of their drinking water,
they chose to move the pipeline
to half a mile north of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
[Michelle] It was there in North Dakota
that a handful of Native American millennials
began a peaceful protest.
I saw young people coming together,
young people really being at the forefront
of this movement, having a voice.
Indigenous rights and environmental justice
are so tightly tied together
because when these projects happen,
they happen in our backyards.
They happen in indigenous lands
where we still are.
We're still dealing with the effects of colonization.
We're still dealing with land theft,
with resource theft constantly.
[Shailene] This is bigger than a pipeline, you guys.
This is about humanity.
We all look different, we all believe in different things.
But we all recognize that water is not a privilege.
Clean water is a right.
We gained support from people all over the world.
You know, this is a very clear issue
of people defending water.
[people shouting]
[phone ringing]
[man] Corson County Sheriff's Department.
[woman] I need to report an assault.
There are malicious-style police
firing at point-blank range with high-powered mace.
[man] Ma'am, yeah, if there's police there,
then it has...
[woman] The police are the ones
attacking innocent, unarmed people.
We have elders here, we have children here,
we have all ages here.
Nobody is armed except for the police.
Who protects the people from the police?
[Tara] I've seen people brutalized by police officers
defending a pipeline, defending corporate interests,
seeing a counterintelligence agency being deployed
to infiltrate unarmed citizens
and paint us as jihadist terrorists.
[Shailene] I'm being arrested.
I hope you're watching, mainstream media.
[woman] We're protecting the water,
they're protecting oil, that's what's happening.
[man] The big question tonight is how is the incoming
Donald Trump administration going to handle this project?
It's no secret President Elect Trump
and his cabinet are pro-oil and pro-pipeline.
[Donald] This is with respect to the construction
of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Nobody thought any politician would have the guts
to approve that final leg.
And I just closed my eyes and said, do it.
[scattered applause]
[Tara] For every single person that was there
and for everyone that followed that movement,
they got to see firsthand what corporate interest looks like.
To understand that their rights as citizens
mattered less than the rights of a company,
and that was a huge win for changing people's minds
and opening their eyes to what's really happening.
[Ana] I think that the protests at Standing Rock
represent a cross-section
between two huge issues that we have,
not only in this country, but throughout the world.
There's the issue of corporate power
and corporate influence, and of course,
the issue of climate change
and what we're doing to our environment.
[Xiuhtezcatl Martinez] Anything we care about
in our lives, whether it's gender equality,
racial equality, or indigenous rights,
clean water, access to good education,
healthy international relations...
Like, if we look at these different things,
climate change touches all of them.
If you look at industrial developments
since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,
our society, we know how to build pipelines really well.
We've built a lot of 'em.
We know how to build coal plants,
and power plants, refineries.
We know how to grow an economy based on fossil fuels.
So, the question now is not whether we can,
but how long until we transition
to the next phase?
There's really a fight between what's right
and what's easy.
I think the biggest question is whether we'll do it in time.
Yeah, I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think we could.
[Chase Iron Eyes] Our liberations are tied up
and dependent on each other.
We're playing both sides of this drama.
I have to play this side, and some people
are born in and playing this other side.
But we have to realize that there are these common forces
which are causing that drama in the first place.
The entire petrol chemical industry,
that entire complex forces us
to participate in our own destruction
and causes this cognitive dissonance.
This isn't just about Standing Rock.
This is about the entire future of humanity and Mother Earth.
We're all in this together.
[Michael] The places that our members
have worked to protect are under threat
because of climate change.
And our air quality is threatened
because of climate change, and the stability
of our entire civilization is at risk.
[Corbin] That is the biggest issue
that my generation faces,
it's the environmental crisis.
We are in a do-or-die situation,
where we have to choose right now,
what are we going to do?
[woman] The biggest wildfire...
[woman 2] The worst drought to hit...
And I think now it's a question
that all of us have to ask ourselves.
Are we willing to save our species?
Because that's what it's coming down to.
- [clears throat] - [man] All right.
- So, we're ready to roll? - Rolling.
[music]
- [Bill Maher] You're 16. - [Xiuhtezcatl] Mm-hmm.
You may be the youngest person on our show.
Setting records, that's what's up.
I stand before you today
representing my entire generation.
You've made three speeches, right, at the UN?
- That's correct, yeah. - Wow, that's three more
than I've made. [laughter]
[Xiuhtezcatl] I saw that climate change
was gonna be the defining issue of our time.
Hello, my name is Xiuhtezcatl, I'm six years old, I'm a boy.
So, for the last nine years, since I was six years old,
I've been on the front lines
of climate and environmental movements.
Climate change has got to go, hey, hey!
In 2015 myself and 20 other young people
filed a lawsuit against the federal government
for failure to act on climate change.
A federal judge ruled in your favor.
It's going forward now, right?
- So, congratulations. - Appreciate that.
[Xiuhtezcatl] We created a model
of what it would look like if we put power
into the hands of young people.
We can if we unite together as one people, one voice.
We can do it.
And if we actually listen to their voices
and elevated their voices.
Now, who wants to make a better future
for us and our children?
[cheers and applause]
Young people will need to play a really critical role
in leading these movements forward
if we wanna see the kind of change
that the world is gonna need to go through.
We just gotta make sure it happens quick enough.
♪ Till the day we die, everything I have ♪
♪ And everything I've proven to be ♪
♪ Everything the revolution could be ♪
♪ I can bleed onto a page, claim that I'm the king ♪
♪ I believe that you can realize your dreams, stop ♪
[music stops]
We know that we have the solutions
to climate change.
We need to build the political will
to make those solutions go from ideas into reality.
[Michelle] Scientists tell us that what happens
during the coming decade will determine the fate
of our climate, and possibly our species.
[Neil] The fourth turning is, in a way,
the winter of history.
Today, we've entered another one
of these fourth turning eras.
The mood in a fourth turning is more urgent.
Social chaos, civil war... I mean, these are the issues
that arise in a fourth turning.
Institutions are torn down and rebuilt from the ground up
in a way that would have seemed unthinkable in other eras.
There seems to be such a threat economically,
geopolitical threats.
[man] The U.S. and Iran on the brink.
[Neil] The first lesson of history
to be aware of is that all of the total wars
in American history all took place
during fourth turnings.
[man] North Korea fired yet another
ballistic missile overnight.
[Neil] This is a sobering lesson for history,
because at a time of intense solidarity,
when you feel that the survival of your community's at stake,
anything's on the table.
On our last fourth turning,
we recruited all of the top scientists in America
to work on a weapon of mass destruction,
and which we then deployed.
[explosion]
You think about the Civil War.
If we had had such a weapon, would we have used it?
I think the question answers itself.
Of course we would have.
[Michelle] Unfortunately, history tells us
that things will probably get a little worse
before they get better.
It also tells us that Western civilization
is very cyclical.
About 240 years ago there was a generation
who stood up against a foreign tyranny
and fought the Revolutionary War
that created the United States.
Eighty years later, there was a generation
of white land owners and Black slaves
who fought together in the Civil War
to end slavery once and for all.
Eighty years after that, the G.I. Generation
faced huge challenges.
They helped defeat the fascists.
They won the Second World War.
Eighty years.
Huh, it's been about 80 years.
[Neil] On our last fourth turning,
Sinclair Lewis wrote a book in 1936
called "It Can't Happen Here."
It was about the rise of fascism in America,
and it was about a leader who believed
in winning is everything,
and America has to do whatever it takes,
however dirty it is, to get itself back on top again.
It created a kind of world that I would say to millennials
could best see embodied in the movie version
of "Hunger Games."
Obviously, a very dystopian,
credibly negative turn of history.
This is why we need to take care,
we need to have wise leaders.
[Jennifer Lawrence] Hello. Hello, New Orleans!
[cheers and applause]
So many of us have come from across the political spectrum.
[cheers and applause]
Across ideologies, across parties,
it's time to unite to fix our democracy.
[Neil] A positive turn, of course,
is that everyone does their role well.
And millennials keep the nation on track
toward a better future.
[man] This is our moment, and it's time
to unrig the system. Welcome.
By getting to the heart of how corrosive an effect
money has on our politics,
and really regaining that voice, and trust,
and confidence of the people, that's how we can begin
to get back to a government of by and for the people.
[man] We need people in their 40s, 30s, and 20s
to take over our country.
All due respect to people 50 and over,
we've had our way.
My generation is the first generation
in the history of the country that's gonna leave this country
in worse shape than we found it.
Regardless of where our politics fall,
at the grassroots, the American people
don't deserve to pay taxes to a system
that is rigged against them.
[bleep] that.
[cheers and applause]
[Josh Silver] The movement to unrig the system
has to include everybody.
It's got to include Independents,
it's got to include conservatives,
it's got to include progressives.
Why? Only 25% of the American people
self-identify as liberal.
That leaves 75% of the country off the table.
This is not radical stuff.
This is all within reach if we can address
the structural problems with our democracy.
[Michelle] If you want to change a broken system,
you have to change the structure of that system.
Structural change is a term borrowed from economics.
It means change so vast
that it literally redefines the fabric of society.
A great example of structural change
comes from the unlikeliest generation...
the silent generation.
[people chanting]
Turns out they weren't so silent after all.
♪ Oh, this little light of mine ♪
In the 1960s, the silent generation
led the charge around civil rights.
It culminated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
The reason the civil rights movement was so successful?
It had a singular objective.
The right to vote.
That kind of definable objective
is one of the most powerful tools
in achieving structural change.
My fellow Americans, I am about to sign into law
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Its purpose is to promote
a more abiding commitment to freedom,
a more constant pursuit of justice,
and a deeper respect for human dignity.
Thanks a lot.
[overlapping chatter]
[Michelle] And then, our parents' generation,
the baby boomers.
They passed the 26th Amendment,
giving 18-year-olds the right to vote.
Because if they were old enough to be drafted
and forced to fight and die for their country,
then they're old enough to vote.
[Richard Nixon] The right to vote
of all of our young people between 18 and 21.
11 million new voters that's a result of this amendment
that you now will see certified by the GSA.
[Michelle] In essence, our parents
gave us the right to vote.
Real change is possible.
Our constitution isn't written on stone.
It's written on a piece of paper.
And if you read that piece of paper,
when things go wrong, you write some more stuff.
To achieve full structural change,
you've gotta deal with politics.
[Steven Olikara] For every person who cares
about cleaning up a river, that's great.
Organize your friends, clean it up.
But then ask yourself, why is that river
dirty in the first place?
And when you get down that conversation,
you realize that's a policy question.
[Dwight Bullard] My mom used to make the argument,
that even going to the bathroom was political.
The idea that waste management is a thing, right?
That is a government entity.
When you press that lever to flush the toilet,
it has to go somewhere.
And so, when you think about it in that sense,
that the air we breathe, the water we drink,
has someone either pulling or pushing
to make some change better or worse for you,
you as a person need to get engaged.
And so, especially people at the age of 18,
I mean, the ability to vote and exercise that right to vote
is so critically important.
[Josh] We have a desperate need
for young people to seek elected office.
There's so many people who think,
"Oh, I couldn't get elected,
I don't have money, I don't have name rec..."
It's amazing what elbow grease and determination can do.
It happens all the time.
[Norah] She's the first member in Congress
born in American Samoa, the first Hindu,
and one of the first two female combat veterans.
Congresswoman, good morning, thanks for joining us.
Thank you, aloha, good morning.
You are new to Congress and you have recently...
[Tulsi Gabbard] If I had listened to all of the people
who told me when I was 21 years old
that I was crazy and I should never even think
about getting involved with politics at that age,
then I wouldn't have run.
You know, at that time, there was no political training
for young people to go through.
It was really like, get on my computer,
build this eight and a half by 11
black-and-white page that I took to the copy shop
and printed out a few hundred copies,
got in my car with a bottle of water
and went out to start knocking on doors.
I was terrified. [laughing]
[Michelle] Congresswoman Gabbard
was one of the first millennials
to break into the political system.
But by the 2018 midterms...
The future belongs to all of us!
[Michelle] ...a wave of millennials
on the left and the right
had decided to run for office.
And not only did they run, but many of them won.
In fact, of the 93 members elected to Congress in 2018,
almost one-third of them were millennials.
It's all part of a nationwide trend...
Young people running for office.
A record number of millennials are running for office.
West Hollywood Mayor Lindsey Horvath joining me now.
Until I was elected, everyone on the council
was over the age of 50.
[man] Women, people of color, Muslims,
members of the LGBT community, they're all signing up
to get their names on the ballot.
[woman] Chase Iron Eyes, who is an attorney
and an activist in the Native American movement,
he's running for Congress in North Dakota.
What we're witnessing right now is a movement.
[Michelle] And a disproportionately high number
of them were women.
[woman] This is the year of the woman.
One of those women, Ayanna Pressley.
[Ayanna] The Seventh Congressional District
is the most diverse
and the most unequal, and I'm running
to do something specifically about that.
[woman] All while a mother and pregnant with twins.
Republican candidate for U.S. Congress,
Christina Hagan.
[Christina] Being a young woman, a millennial,
a conservative, those are all unique things
in our political process.
[man] Roza Calderon, she is the Democratic candidate
for California's Fourth Congressional District.
[Roza] You know, I'm a single mom,
and so I thought there's no way.
People like me we're not supposed to run,
we're not meant to run.
But I kept thinking, why not me?
Why not an average regular person
who understands the struggle of the people to run?
[woman] Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman
in Congress in the country.
[man] Twin sisters are both running
for Michigan County Commissioner seats.
- Good morning. - So, how did one
become a Democrat and one become a Republican?
We are trying to move things forward,
and we can't do it when we're fighting
against each other.
[Michelle] Even President Trump noticed that something big
had changed in Congress.
We also have more women serving in Congress
than at any time before.
[cheers and applause]
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Very good.
And congratulations, that's great.
[Michelle] But perhaps the most surprising thing
that happened in the 2018 midterms was this.
- I can't let you know... - Oh my God!
She's looking at herself on television.
We wanna begin with some breaking political news.
A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist
beating a man who some saw as the next Speaker of the House.
[man] At 29 years old, she will become
the youngest-serving congresswoman ever.
[Alexandria] Running for Congress,
it was never something that I thought I'd be able to do,
because our system is not designed
for working-class Americans to hold office.
Working 18-hours days, and little things
like trying to afford health insurance
when you're a waitress, showed me what it's like
to be an American in a way
that I don't think most public officials understand.
[Michelle] Her values were simple and clear.
[Alexandria] I believe that healthcare is a right.
I believe that our climate is in a crisis right now.
I believe that every single American
should have the opportunity to attend college
or trade school.
We see that this is not a pipe dream.
Every other developed nation in the world does this.
Why can't America?
We will not rest until every person in this country
is paid a living wage to lead a dignified life.
[Michelle] And perhaps most importantly,
she wanted to do something radical...
To use government policy to combat the climate crisis.
[Alexandria] Climate change and our environmental challenges
are one of the biggest existential threats
to our way of life.
[man] The Green New Deal
calls for a 10-year national mobilization
to bring greenhouse gas emissions to zero,
meet 100% of energy needs by renewable sources.
Our climate is in a crisis right now,
and that for our economy and for our children,
it is time to move over to a renewable energy economy
by 2028.
[Michelle] It should come as no surprise
that the Green New Deal was met with heavy-handed opposition.
What is this Green New Deal? Answer?
Radical, environmental socialism.
When we outlaw plane travel,
we outlaw gasoline, we outline cars.
There's another victim of the Green New Deal, it's ice cream.
Wants to go after flatulent cows, so what are they saying,
- we're gonna ban hamburgers? - No more steak.
I guess government-forced veganism is in order.
[Michelle] You have to wonder if that opposition
has anything to do with where our elected officials
typically get their funding.
[Alexandria] If I wanna run a campaign
that is entirely funded
by corporate political action committees,
is that... is there anything
that legally prevents me from doing that?
No.
Are there any limits on the laws
that I can write or influence?
- There's no limit. - So, there's none.
So, I can be totally funded by oil and gas,
I can be totally funded by Big Pharma, come in,
write Big Pharma laws, and there's no limits
- to that whatsoever? - That's right.
[Michelle] But AOC, as she's now called,
isn't the only young leader who wants to use government
to stop climate change.
[woman] A 15-year-old Swedish climate activist,
Greta Thunberg, has called for a global climate strike today.
[crowd] Climate justice!
You are not mature enough to tell it like it is.
Even that burden, you leave to us children.
But I don't care about being popular.
I care about climate justice and the living planet.
And if solutions within this system
are so impossible to find,
then maybe we should change the system itself.
We have come here to let you know
that change is coming, whether you like it or not.
[woman] Her speeches have inspired children
around the world to take to the streets.
[crowds shouting]
[music]
[man] An estimated one million young people
across the globe struck today, walking out of their schools
to protest the threat of climate change.
[Greta] Why should we be studying for a future
that soon may not exist anymore?
[Neil] 'Cause we often think that, "Oh my gosh,
we just don't have the leader for these times," right?
But my sense of history is, whoever came up to plate
was impelled by the very nature of the times
to make the right decision.
- Climate! - Justice!
[chanting continues]
[Xiuhtezcatl] When people ask, What gives you hope?"
Like, that's what gives me hope.
[inaudible]
There are youth worldwide that are in positions of leadership
that are leading the way for other young people.
This is a creative, innovative, fast-paced generation
that is making things happen, and at the forefront of change.
[Neil] There's a sense in which the turnings
create the leaders, not the leaders
create the turnings.
That is to say, the mood creates the opportunity
for a certain kind of leader
to make a great leader out of someone
who in another period would have been a nonentity.
What I know for sure is young people
have the answer.
Older people have the answer too.
[Neil] I often get asked the question, you know,
"Can we avoid a fourth turning?"
And I guess my answer is, we often want to avoid things,
and we're always sorry of the consequences
of trying to avoid it.
Occasionally you need a fire, occasionally you need something
to purge out stuff that doesn't fit anymore.
It calls forth qualities
which otherwise remain dormant in us.
Making us bigger, better, sometimes larger
than we otherwise would have been.
[Preston] So, my greatest hope is that we come together
in unprecedented ways.
And let's figure out a way to work together
despite our differences.
If we can do that... When we do that...
Not if, when we do that, the whole world shifts.
♪ This is a revolution ♪
This whole revolution thing that we're talking about,
it really is a consciousness
that says that we will make the impossible possible,
no matter our generation, our race, our gender,
our sexual orientation, our religion.
We're fighting for an America as good as its promise.
[Shailene] We're here for a reason.
That reason is to unite, and that reason
is to put truth, and integrity, and justice,
and kindness, and love at the forefront
of every single thing we do.
Only love can defeat hate.
So, if there are things going on that we don't like,
take that energy and fuel it in a positive way.
But it's not gonna happen unless you step up
and do something about it.
[Alexi] Yes, we might be on our cellphones a lot.
But guess what, a lot of us are creating movements
on those cellphones.
Whatever it might be, we are literally the ones
changing the world right now as we speak.
[Steven] This is real change I'm seeing
on the ground right now, but people don't see it yet
because it doesn't make the headlines.
It's not sensational and conflict-driven.
It's real progress.
[Neil] We need to keep in mind who we are as a people,
and preserve those values into the next turning.
And the next first turning,
which I think will probably happen
at the very end of the 2020s, that'll be the time
when the generation after millennials,
this new homeland generation, they will be coming of age.
My friends and I might still be 11,
but we know what is right and wrong.
We say, no more!
[Neil] Millennials are beginning to move
into real leadership roles for the first time.
This will be the new golden age,
because we will have successfully,
finally by dint of this great collective struggle
solved so many global problems, environmental problems,
that will last for the next couple
of generations after that.
[Xiuhtezcatl] Every generation leaves something behind
to be remembered by,
and we are at a tipping point right now.
We are being called upon to use our courage,
our innovation, our creativity,
and our passion to bring forth a new world.
[Renaldo] And with that, I'll leave you
with these words from Rabbi Maimonides.
"The world is equally balanced between good and evil.
Your next act will tip the scales."
[cheers and applause]
[Michelle] We're the most educated, gender-fluid,
entrepreneurial, mobile, text-savvy,
the most connected, politically independent,
most radically diverse,
as well as the most globally aware generation
in history.
The mission of our generation is simple.
Use every tool we have, including our political system,
to fix our climate and save our future.
We don't need approval or permission
to change our future.
We only need each other.
The hero of our generation is our generation.
♪ This is a revolution ♪
♪ We are rising up, we are rising up ♪
♪ This is a revolution ♪
♪ We are rising up, we are rising up ♪
♪ This is a revolution ♪
♪ We are rising up, we are rising up ♪
♪ This is a revolution ♪
♪ We are rising up, we are rising up ♪
♪ This is a revolution ♪
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♪ This is a revolution ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ This is a revolution ♪♪
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