"I'd Like to Help You, Son, But You're Too Young to Vote."

     Dianne Feinstein couldn't have possibly handled this worse than she had. Her condescending demeanor toward these California schoolchildren was nothing short of execrable and deplorable.
In fact, I'll even go you one better- Her attitude toward these kids perfectly defines why Americans grow up so disillusioned with the political process and choose at an early age to disengage. This is a much older generation telling the next generation of voters, "We know it all, we ate it all, and you can't do a damned thing about it."

      Which is why we have 40-45% (sometimes lower) engagement rates every election cycle (especially in midterms). It teaches these kids that engaging with your elected officials is fruitless once they've made up their minds to work with the political party that hasn't done shit for the environment since Nixon created the EPA..And it teaches them that they have no interest in anything you have to say if you're, as the Eddie Cochran song goes, "too young to vote."
      Feinstein's been in the Senate for 30 years and now we're looking at another six years of this Blue Dog bullshit. I don't know what the hell California was thinking in electing her to a sixth term. But she's had three decades to do something about climate change and hasn't done shit. These kids know better, have much better instincts and haven't been corrupted with this DINOsaur reaching "across the aisle" bullshit. The Republicans are corrupt, murderous psychopaths deeply snuggled in the pockets of oil and coal companies who don't give a fuck about the future generations even if it includes their own grandchildren. And if Feinstein won't go to war with these genocidal lunatics and become part of the solution like Ocasio-Cortez, then she's part of the problem.
     It's time for the sun to set on Feinstein's career.