Oh, that's a nice thing to think about! And I think you're probably right.
I do think about the marriage thing sometimes. I can't believe we went from 1999 when I was crying in a bathroom at work because we (Alaska) had just passed a constitutional amendment banning it that got something like 70% of the popular vote, to not only legalizing it nationwide but legalizing it with majority popular support and very little pushback less than 20 years later.
I feel like - I hope, anyway - that 2016-2020 was an aberration and a wakeup call for a lot of us in the older Millennial/younger Gen X age bracket, because for most of my life there has felt like a sort of inevitability to the pace of change where it seemed to be inexorably trending forward no matter what we did. It felt like, even when the elections didn't go our way and that part sucked, things trended our way anyway. And then the last few years slammed into us and proved that sometimes you gotta get out and push to make things go your way. And I hope enough of us keep pushing to keep that snowball rolling, so all of this will just look like a speed bump in hindsight and not an actual change of direction.
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Date: 2020-11-10 08:52 am (UTC)I do think about the marriage thing sometimes. I can't believe we went from 1999 when I was crying in a bathroom at work because we (Alaska) had just passed a constitutional amendment banning it that got something like 70% of the popular vote, to not only legalizing it nationwide but legalizing it with majority popular support and very little pushback less than 20 years later.
I feel like - I hope, anyway - that 2016-2020 was an aberration and a wakeup call for a lot of us in the older Millennial/younger Gen X age bracket, because for most of my life there has felt like a sort of inevitability to the pace of change where it seemed to be inexorably trending forward no matter what we did. It felt like, even when the elections didn't go our way and that part sucked, things trended our way anyway. And then the last few years slammed into us and proved that sometimes you gotta get out and push to make things go your way. And I hope enough of us keep pushing to keep that snowball rolling, so all of this will just look like a speed bump in hindsight and not an actual change of direction.