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[gunshots]

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We're talking about
millennials here

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and their scatterbrained
attention deficit disease.

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Millennials, we all get it.

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They're somewhat annoying,
to say the least.

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[man] A recent survey suggests
six out of 10 millennials

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cannot change a lightbulb.

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[man 2] What the hell
is wrong with your generation?

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Generation Snowflake.

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- [overlapping shouting]
- Black Lives Matter!

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[man] I know millennials
who are outstanding.

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A couple of 'em even voted
for President Trump.

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[screaming]

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[woman] Well, it looks
like it's time

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for millennials to grow up.

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With 32.1% of millennials
living with their parents.

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We are not leaving!
We are not leaving!

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- They're lazy.
- Lazy.

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Lazy entitled narcissists.

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[Michelle Rodriguez]
Am I, like, a millennial?

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Bitches.

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Yes, sorry, [bleep].

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I mean, like, who decided that
I'm part of that generation?

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Some anthropologist somewhere

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who's just like,
"Yeah, that's the line.

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[sighs]
It's official."

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I don't know what to tell you,
I'm horrible at this stuff.

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I don't like telling people
what to do.

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You ever googled me?
[snickering]

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I'm like the example of like,
"it's okay to [bleep] up."

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[camera clicking]

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'Cause I'm trying not to dictate

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what millennial is,
you know what I mean?

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Let me take that from the top.

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So, what are we gonna do?

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The media would like you
to believe the story

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that millennials are a bunch
of lazy narcissists.

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Which is ironic,
because it's up to us

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to fix all the problems
the world faces today.

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From international
migrant crisis,

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to wealth inequality,
to climate change.

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That's why it's time
to set the record straight

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about our generation.

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This film is about
our true and untold history...

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How we fix climate change

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and how we win back our future.

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MAN: CiCi Battle,
take one, marker.

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Are the cliches
about millennials...

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- Uh.
- Lazy?

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- Uh-huh.
- Narcissistic?

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- Uh-huh.
- Entitled?

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- Uh-huh.
- Self-absorbed?

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Okay.

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Do I think we're lazy?
No.

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Do we care about the things
that everyone

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thinks we should care about?
No.

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Do we think we're narcissistic?

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Mm, you know, everybody got
a little piece of that in them,

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you know, that's okay.

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What people try to do
to millennials

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is what was done to them.

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I think there's multiple things
that I've overcome.

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I am a Black woman
living in a world

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that in every turn
tells me that I'm not enough,

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and tells me that
I'm not beautiful.

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I'm the director
of Young People For,

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a national long-term leadership
development program

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for young folks.

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But specifically how we do
leadership development

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is through the lens
of social justice.

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So, everyone who comes
through the program

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develops something called
a blueprint for social justice,

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which is their campus
or community action plan

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how they wanna build
a better now.

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The suicide rate
for LGBTQIA+ youth,

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it's two to seven times higher
than straight youth.

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I was almost lost
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and I just don't want to see
that happen anymore.

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So, I think the work that I do,
making sure that the identities

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of queer and trans people
of color

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that come from low-income
backgrounds are reflected,

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so that my people
don't have to face what I did.

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[CiCi] Young people
already have the answers,

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but what's missing
is the access, opportunity,

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and specifically the resources
to help them get there.

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I think that our world seeks
to separate us and divide us,

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whether through systems
of oppression

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or the structures that
are built into our policies,

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even the ways that
our neighborhoods are set up.

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And so, there's something
really radical

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about bringing people together
around a common interest.

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I teach young folks,
and I think that everyone

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should have some type of role

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within the youth,
whether it's a coach,

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or a counselor, or a teacher,
after-school teacher.

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I know for sure that young folks

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are always going to be
the voice of change,

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because they're the ones coming
with the fresh ideas.

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[CiCi] As a Black woman
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my survival is tied
to access to education

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and access to fair housing.

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My survival is tied
to reproductive justice.

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I can't choose not to care

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because millennials,
we're living the issues,

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and this is our reality.

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The MLKs of the world
are here already.

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You don't have to be
a certain age to be a leader.

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The people who are feeling
the issues have the answers,

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and we need to step aside,
let them lead,

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and support them along the way.

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[Dan Schawbel] Every generation
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negatively stereotyped
younger generations

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and positively stereotyped
their elders,

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saying they're wise
and willing to mentor.

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And the difference now

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is that social media
and traditional media

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has amplified
the negative stereotypes.

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I think the reputation

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and the stereotypes

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that millennials have gotten

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has set a precedent
for what people expect.

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And so, millennials,
it's up to them

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to bust this stereotype.

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[music]

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[Renaldo Pearson] I attended
Morehouse College.

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It's the alma mater
of notable freedom fighters

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like Dr. King and Julian Bond.

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Naturally, I took a deep dive

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in civil rights movement
history and ecology.

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Understanding
the civil rights history,

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you know, juxtaposing it
to Michelle Alexander's book,

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"Mass Incarceration in the Age
of Colorblindness,"

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you know, I've gotta
get involved in the fight.

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I didn't see enough folks
who looked like me

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at the decision table...
Certainly not voicing

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the outrage that I had
about the system.

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So, I got involved
as a criminal justice advocate.

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I said, literally,
my grandparents

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did not sacrifice their lives
for the right to vote

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just to see the vote
of their grandchildren

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purged a generation later.

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And that kind of began my path
on this road of activism

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and political engagement.

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I'm an organizer
with Democracy Spring.

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[man] There were mass arrests

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along the steps
of Capitol Hill today

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as more than 1,000 protestors
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[woman] Several hundred people
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asking to be arrested.

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This event is all about people

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reclaiming their voice
in government.

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I got arrested, forced out,
misdemeanor charge.

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But that's a badge of honor,

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and I'm gonna share it
with my kids one day.

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[music]

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[David Burstein] Like the
millennial generation or not,

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have your frustrations
or feelings about them,

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the reason that people
should really care

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about this generation,
is if you wanna understand

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the future, you have
to understand this generation.

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[man] <i>Attention,</i>
<i>attention, everybody!</i>

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[Jason Dorsey] There's like
80 million of us.

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We're the most diverse
generation

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in the history
of the United States.

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We're the largest generation
in the U.S. workforce,

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and we're pretty much
gonna change everything.

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[man] <i>The police</i>
<i>are not the problem.</i>

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<i>The problem is the system.</i>

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Of course there are millennials
that are entitled and lazy.

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There are Gen X-ers that are
entitled and lazy.

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There are boomer...
There are just people

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that are entitled and lazy,
so yes,

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some millennials
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But wouldn't it be a disgrace

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if a quote-unquote
"entitled generation"

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continued to kind of go
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"yes, I will go do this
till the age of 65" mentality,

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and instead kinda said,
"yeah, we're gonna use

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that opportunity,
that privilege, to give back."

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[Ana Kasparian] The majority
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identify as Independents,

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and then about 27%
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and 17% identify as Republicans.

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So, there are a lot
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among most millennials.

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They're more socially liberal.

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They want gay rights.

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Equality among races.

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They're more likely
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as opposed to baby boomers.

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[Lindsey Horvath] Millennials
increasingly care less

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about where you were born

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or, you know,
what religion you practice,

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or you know, who's in
your bedroom at night.

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And we care about who you
choose to be as a person,

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or how you're bettering yourself

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in the community around you.

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That's who you are as a human,

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and that's what
we wanna know about you.

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[Jason] We recently
did a national study,

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and one of the questions was,

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"How would you define yourself?
Male, female, other?"

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Right?
And what we found is,

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people that would
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as male or female
were much more likely

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if they were a millennial
to pick "other"

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purely so their friends
who would check "other"

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did not feel excluded.

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I mean, that's a massive shift.

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How many boomers do you think
are gonna go check "other"?

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[Michelle]
Speaking of baby boomers,

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before we talk about where
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we need to talk
about where we came from.

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Neil Howe is a sociologist...

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Author, demographer, economist.

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[Michelle] ...who studies how
the cycles of American history

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repeat themselves.

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[man] Neil Howe, coauthor
of the new book "Generations,"

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what's it all about?

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Well, "Generations"
is a whole new way

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of looking at how the past
shapes the future.

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Along the way, we discovered
some outstanding patterns

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in history that seem
to be recurring.

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We found, for instance,
that every generation

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belongs to one
of four life-cycle types

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that seems to repeat
in the same order over time.

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There are four basic types
of generations.

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There's the hero archetype,
like the greatest generation.

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There's what we call
the artist archetype,

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like the silent generation...

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Heavily protected
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and they tend to be improvers.

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There's the prophet archetype.

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They're born
right after the crisis

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and they come of age
as young adults

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during the awakening.

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And then, you have
the nomad archetype,

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which is like Generation X...

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The totally individualist,
left-alone kind of archetype.

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These repeating archetypes
take place

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within a series of seasons

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of history, and four turnings.

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Turnings are the result

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of this generational evolution,

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this aging of generations up.

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We define a turning as a period

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that's about the same length
of the generation,

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and each turning is an era
in which each generation

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is moving
into a new phase of life.

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We think that turnings,
just like generations,

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repeat in cycles of four.

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History suggests
that third turnings

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eventually end
in fourth turnings.

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The fourth turning
is the end of the cycle.

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So today, we are back
in that era.

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[clock ticking]

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[Michelle] So, four generations
is about 80 years.

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And about every 80 years...

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[alarm clock ringing]

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there's a major crisis.

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About 80 years ago,

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America experienced
an economic crisis...

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and a man-made
environmental crisis.

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And then, we entered
World War II.

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[gunfire]

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It was a bleak time.

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[Neil] The fourth turning
usually manifests

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in a number of events
and issues that come up

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which represent
a perceived threat

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to the nation's very survival.

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[Michelle] Forged from
these hardships

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came the G.I. Generation.

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[gunshot]

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The women built tanks and bombs.

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The men fought in battles
of epic proportions.

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And together, they won
the Second World War,

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and they helped liberate
the world from fascism.

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They became known
as a hero generation.

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[Neil] We give each
of these turnings names.

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The first turning
we call a high.

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We think of a high as a period

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when institutions are strong,
individualism is weak.

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Society feels like it's more
than the sum of their parts.

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The last period like this
was the American high.

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Basically it lasted
from the end of World War II

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up through John Kennedy's
presidency.

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[swing music playing]

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[Michelle]
While the silent generation

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were still in their childhood,

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the young G.I.s
had returned from the war.

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They married,
and the privileged ones

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settled in vast numbers
into suburbs.

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The white middle class
was ballooning

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and the American economy
was booming.

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And when things are going well,
what do people do?

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[sultry music playing]

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They have lots and lots of...

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[record scratching]

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Babies.

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Now, this was before
the internet.

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There wasn't much to do.

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[Neil] The second turning
is an awakening.

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An awakening is a time
when everyone

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tires of all
the social conformity,

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so it's a turning toward
the individual.

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The last time we remember
a turning like that

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was obviously
the late '60s, 70s.

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[Michelle] As those babies
became young adults,

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the baby boomers were told...

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Turn on, tune in, drop out.

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♪ War, huh, yeah ♪

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♪ What is it good for? ♪

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[Michelle] They lived through
the era of war in Vietnam...

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the draft, LSD, love-ins,

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and the shootings at Kent State.

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<i>Leave this area immediately.</i>

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[Michelle] Theirs was a time
of extreme experimentation

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and extreme disruption.

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Throughout the late 1970s,
birth rates dropped

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due to the birth control pill.

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[announcer] <i>The pill.</i>

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[Michelle]
And the divorce rate climbed,

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the economy sunk,

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and a smaller generation
of children was born.

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♪ War! ♪

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Which became known
as Generation X.

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This was a time when our culture

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looked down on having children.

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Oh, shit!

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What's wrong with my baby?

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[screaming]

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[Neil] A third turning,
individualism is triumphant.

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Institutions are disrespected,
not trusted anymore.

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These are all decades
of cynicism and bad manners.

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This would be like the 1990s,
the 1920s, the 1850s.

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They all have the same flavor.

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[music]

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[Michelle] And then, the values
of those nonconformist

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baby boomers
took a complete 180.

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♪ It's a brand-new day,
I'm Mr. VIP ♪

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♪ I'm gonna make some money,
it's good to be me ♪

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♪ Ooh, yum-yum-yummy ♪

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[Michelle] They were done
with acid and free love,

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and were now into...

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[sniffing]

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The key to success.

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[Michelle] ...cocaine
and the free market.

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A new era of hyper consumption
and extreme materialism began.

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It was time for the largest
generation in history

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to give birth
to an even bigger generation

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that would come of age
in the new millennium.

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And they would call us
millennials.

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[harp strumming]

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Oh, it works!

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[Michelle] Suddenly,
people cared

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about having kids again
and raising them right.

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- It's me.
- [children] What?

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[Barney] That's right!

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A mirror will always show you
somebody very special.

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[music]

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[man] Welcome to America's
trophy culture.

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[man] Everybody ready
for some trophies?

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[kids cheering]

364
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These days kids get trophies
for participating.

365
00:17:00,483 --> 00:17:02,527
We lost almost
every game this season.

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[woman] It sets the bar
pretty low.

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[Michelle]
But as we came of age,

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cracks began to appear,
and the media narrative

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of the perfect world
we were promised.

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On this day in 1991,

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Rodney King, viciously beaten

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by L.A. police officers

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at the end
of a high-speed pursuit.

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[woman] Orenthal James Simpson
not guilty

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of the crime of murder.

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[Michelle] Subconsciously,
we concluded that celebrities

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play by a different
set of rules,

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and that fame makes you
more important than others.

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♪ Bones sinking like stones ♪

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♪ All that we fought for ♪

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The disconnect between the world

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that we were raised
to believe in...

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I did not have sexual relations
with that woman.

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00:17:56,164 --> 00:17:58,282
[Michelle] ...and the reality
that we were inheriting...

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Indeed I did have a relationship

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with Miss Lewinsky.

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00:18:00,668 --> 00:18:02,253
[Michelle]
continued to grow.

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[man] ...believe 25 students
have been killed.

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00:18:04,881 --> 00:18:06,456
[woman] Eighteen people
have been killed,

390
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six of them children.

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00:18:07,842 --> 00:18:10,094
[woman 2]
There are 95 people inside,

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of them, 17 below the age of 10.

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[Michelle] But the moment
that truly marked

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the end of our innocence

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00:18:18,102 --> 00:18:20,438
was a moment so devastating...

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it would leave a permanent scar
on the subconscious mind

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of an entire generation.

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00:18:28,613 --> 00:18:30,782
[loud rumbling]

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00:18:30,823 --> 00:18:33,451
[people screaming]

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00:18:37,038 --> 00:18:40,750
♪ Bones sinking like stones ♪

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00:18:40,792 --> 00:18:43,878
And if we look at the world
that we were sold,

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00:18:43,962 --> 00:18:45,630
the world that we were
promised...

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00:18:45,672 --> 00:18:49,968
♪ When I grow up
to be big me ♪

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00:18:50,051 --> 00:18:52,178
[Michelle] ...versus the world
that we got...

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00:18:52,262 --> 00:18:55,932
♪ All of us are done for ♪

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00:18:55,974 --> 00:18:58,851
what is the underlying
context of our generation?

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00:19:01,896 --> 00:19:04,065
The message
that we received is...

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00:19:05,441 --> 00:19:06,442
[explosion]

409
00:19:06,484 --> 00:19:09,654
you are not...

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00:19:24,794 --> 00:19:26,713
[Lily Comba]
I have anxiety today,

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00:19:26,796 --> 00:19:28,506
just like doing simple things...

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00:19:28,590 --> 00:19:31,217
Going to an amusement park,
going to a concert.

413
00:19:31,301 --> 00:19:33,094
When the fireworks
are going off at Disney,

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00:19:33,177 --> 00:19:35,179
why is my first thought,
"Oh, this would be

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00:19:35,263 --> 00:19:37,056
a perfect place
for a terrorist to attack"?

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00:19:40,435 --> 00:19:43,146
It's a very anxious way
to live your life,

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00:19:43,187 --> 00:19:47,442
and that's just how, you know,
our generation grew up,

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is in fear, really.

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00:19:53,656 --> 00:19:55,491
[Michelle] While we were
getting mixed messages

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00:19:55,533 --> 00:19:58,244
about the reality
of the world at large,

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something else was taking place.

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00:20:00,038 --> 00:20:02,332
[fanfare playing]

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A new era was coming into being.

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00:20:12,217 --> 00:20:14,219
[dial-up modem chirping]

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00:20:14,260 --> 00:20:17,222
We found an antidote
to being unsafe.

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00:20:17,305 --> 00:20:19,474
We found a way
to fix that problem.

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00:20:21,601 --> 00:20:26,564
Connections, friends,
being liked.

428
00:20:26,648 --> 00:20:28,733
We found safety in numbers.

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00:20:35,323 --> 00:20:36,690
[Mark Zuckerberg]
These are some of the moments

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00:20:36,741 --> 00:20:38,025
that I'm really proud
of what we're doing, right?

431
00:20:38,076 --> 00:20:39,610
I know that we're making
a positive difference

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in people's lives.

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00:20:41,579 --> 00:20:43,459
And I know a lot of you
are gonna have questions

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00:20:43,539 --> 00:20:45,708
about this, so I wanna be clear
that we have designed this

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with privacy and safety
in mind from the beginning.

436
00:20:48,628 --> 00:20:51,047
[music]

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00:20:54,092 --> 00:20:57,554
♪ Post it, tweet it,
share it, like it ♪

438
00:20:59,639 --> 00:21:01,558
There's a lot of research
that shows

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00:21:01,599 --> 00:21:04,936
that we are increasingly
anxious, depressed,

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00:21:04,978 --> 00:21:08,106
fearful, unhealthy society.

441
00:21:08,189 --> 00:21:10,275
And I think that technology's
a big part of that.

442
00:21:11,818 --> 00:21:14,445
A lot of reasons why
so many millennials

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00:21:14,529 --> 00:21:15,947
suffer with the depression

444
00:21:15,989 --> 00:21:18,533
or the anxiety,
is because everybody

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00:21:18,616 --> 00:21:20,785
puts their highlight reel
out there.

446
00:21:20,827 --> 00:21:23,454
There's who they are
in their day-to-day lives,

447
00:21:23,538 --> 00:21:26,124
and then there's who
they project themselves to be.

448
00:21:26,207 --> 00:21:29,961
♪ Post it, tweet it,
share it, like it ♪

449
00:21:30,003 --> 00:21:32,130
♪ Share it, like it ♪

450
00:21:32,213 --> 00:21:34,299
[Adam] You see a lot of people
that spend their days

451
00:21:34,340 --> 00:21:36,634
taking other people's lives in,

452
00:21:36,718 --> 00:21:38,303
and just,
this person's in India,

453
00:21:38,386 --> 00:21:41,806
this person's got a new job,
this person just got published.

454
00:21:41,890 --> 00:21:44,934
This person's dating someone
who's really attractive.

455
00:21:44,976 --> 00:21:46,218
I look at that stuff
and I'm like,

456
00:21:46,269 --> 00:21:47,854
oh, man, my life sucks.

457
00:21:47,937 --> 00:21:50,690
♪ Tweet it, share it, like it ♪

458
00:21:50,773 --> 00:21:52,483
♪ Share it, like it ♪

459
00:21:56,863 --> 00:21:58,689
[Christine] Because there's
sort of this expectation,

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00:21:58,740 --> 00:22:00,325
especially thanks
to social media,

461
00:22:00,408 --> 00:22:02,118
that "Here I am with my selfie,

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00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,246
and I'm happy all the time,
and my life is great,"

463
00:22:05,330 --> 00:22:08,333
they're repressing
a lot of their emotions.

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And so, that's leading
to a lot of depression.

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00:22:11,461 --> 00:22:13,129
So, if I'm feeling sad

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00:22:13,171 --> 00:22:15,173
and I don't have the tools
and resources for it,

467
00:22:15,215 --> 00:22:16,799
and I feel ashamed about it,

468
00:22:16,841 --> 00:22:18,417
I'm gonna go to my doctor
and talk about it,

469
00:22:18,468 --> 00:22:20,348
and they're gonna
give me medication, because...

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00:22:20,428 --> 00:22:21,668
[snapping]
That's the quick fix.

471
00:22:24,766 --> 00:22:28,394
[Preston Smiles] Because
we've been so advertised to,

472
00:22:28,478 --> 00:22:30,855
we're having to figure out
how to be bigger

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than our base desires.

474
00:22:35,652 --> 00:22:37,528
Because we were drugged
as children

475
00:22:37,570 --> 00:22:40,573
and given labels
like ADD and all of that,

476
00:22:40,657 --> 00:22:43,743
we're having to navigate
those things.

477
00:22:43,826 --> 00:22:45,203
[Christine]
One of the main reasons

478
00:22:45,245 --> 00:22:47,497
this is the most
over-medicated generations

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00:22:47,538 --> 00:22:49,874
that we're seeing is because
they're constantly

480
00:22:49,916 --> 00:22:51,709
comparing themselves
to the outside world,

481
00:22:51,793 --> 00:22:53,753
and they're terrified to make
the wrong decision.

482
00:22:58,174 --> 00:23:01,052
[Michelle] This was a warm-up
for what was to come next.

483
00:23:01,135 --> 00:23:03,721
Because we wanted to live
as perfect avatars,

484
00:23:03,805 --> 00:23:06,891
a lot of us dreamed
of getting a college degree.

485
00:23:06,933 --> 00:23:10,228
But that dream
came with hidden costs.

486
00:23:10,270 --> 00:23:12,564
[toy xylophone chiming]

487
00:23:15,108 --> 00:23:17,360
[babbling, laughing]

488
00:23:17,402 --> 00:23:18,695
My name's Carole,

489
00:23:18,736 --> 00:23:21,072
and I have over $500,000

490
00:23:21,155 --> 00:23:22,657
in student loan debt.

491
00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:24,409
How am I gonna pay
for your college?

492
00:23:26,578 --> 00:23:29,622
I mean, honestly, like, the way
that it was all presented

493
00:23:29,706 --> 00:23:31,506
was, "This is normal,
this is what people do."

494
00:23:34,085 --> 00:23:37,255
Many of today's grads
owe more than $100,000.

495
00:23:37,338 --> 00:23:40,258
College tuition has gone up 234%

496
00:23:40,341 --> 00:23:42,093
over the last 20-some-odd years.

497
00:23:42,135 --> 00:23:44,554
[woman] Millennials
mired in debt, it's massive.

498
00:23:45,597 --> 00:23:47,277
[Adam] There isn't really
a path for people

499
00:23:47,348 --> 00:23:48,766
coming out of college now.

500
00:23:48,808 --> 00:23:51,227
First of all,
they've just spent $200,000

501
00:23:51,269 --> 00:23:53,938
on an education that doesn't
really prepare them

502
00:23:53,980 --> 00:23:55,648
for the world of work,
and puts them

503
00:23:55,732 --> 00:23:58,026
in a pretty precarious position
going into their 20s,

504
00:23:58,109 --> 00:24:01,279
because they can't get a job,
and they have all this debt.

505
00:24:01,321 --> 00:24:03,323
So, they're forced to take
a job they don't want.

506
00:24:03,406 --> 00:24:05,116
[Preston] I think a lot of
people have this

507
00:24:05,158 --> 00:24:07,025
internal sort of conflict
where it's like, your parents

508
00:24:07,076 --> 00:24:09,787
are saying, "You have
to go to school," right?

509
00:24:09,829 --> 00:24:11,831
'Cause the parents...
In the parents' mind,

510
00:24:11,915 --> 00:24:13,291
they want the kid to be safe.

511
00:24:13,333 --> 00:24:15,043
But that world doesn't even
exist anymore.

512
00:24:18,379 --> 00:24:20,965
[Alan Collinge] In the, say,
mid '90s,

513
00:24:21,049 --> 00:24:25,678
student loan debt stood at less
than 100 billion dollars.

514
00:24:25,762 --> 00:24:29,891
Just in the past 10 years,
we've gone from 300 billion

515
00:24:29,974 --> 00:24:32,393
to 1.4 trillion.

516
00:24:34,479 --> 00:24:36,648
So, it is an exponential curve,

517
00:24:36,731 --> 00:24:39,525
and it's reaching
the vertical part

518
00:24:39,609 --> 00:24:41,569
of that curve very quickly.

519
00:24:41,653 --> 00:24:44,155
[teapot whistling]

520
00:24:48,910 --> 00:24:51,037
[Carole] They won't refinance
my interest rate

521
00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,039
and they're insanely high.

522
00:24:53,122 --> 00:24:56,251
So, that's 10 years
of paying on these loans,

523
00:24:56,334 --> 00:25:00,380
and it's still more than
the cost of a house, so...

524
00:25:00,463 --> 00:25:02,340
I mean, it's pretty criminal.

525
00:25:04,133 --> 00:25:07,470
[Alan]
63%... so 27 million

526
00:25:07,512 --> 00:25:09,389
of these 44 million borrowers

527
00:25:09,472 --> 00:25:11,182
are currently unable
to make payments

528
00:25:11,224 --> 00:25:12,308
on their student loans.

529
00:25:14,227 --> 00:25:16,020
[Dan] The effect
that student loans have had

530
00:25:16,104 --> 00:25:18,064
on the millennial generation,
it's prevented them

531
00:25:18,147 --> 00:25:20,316
from getting married,

532
00:25:20,358 --> 00:25:22,902
starting families,
buying houses.

533
00:25:22,986 --> 00:25:25,613
It's really pushed back
their adulthood.

534
00:25:26,656 --> 00:25:28,398
[Alan] The stories that
I've seen come across my desk

535
00:25:28,449 --> 00:25:30,368
are extraordinary.

536
00:25:30,451 --> 00:25:33,705
Many suicides where people just
couldn't handle the pressure

537
00:25:33,788 --> 00:25:35,206
of their debt.

538
00:25:37,417 --> 00:25:39,117
- [baby fussing]
- [Carole] My own personal debt

539
00:25:39,168 --> 00:25:41,212
is definitely what holds us back

540
00:25:41,254 --> 00:25:43,756
from being able to even
consider owning a home.

541
00:25:45,675 --> 00:25:47,218
Definitely not
the American dream.

542
00:25:47,302 --> 00:25:48,553
[laughing]

543
00:25:55,935 --> 00:25:58,062
[David] People are saddled
with, you know,

544
00:25:58,104 --> 00:26:01,441
student loan debt
in... in huge ways.

545
00:26:01,524 --> 00:26:04,068
But we have to remember,
that's only actually a fraction

546
00:26:04,152 --> 00:26:05,644
of the country, 'cause it's
only a fraction of the country

547
00:26:05,695 --> 00:26:06,696
that's going to college.

548
00:26:08,448 --> 00:26:10,241
[Tamara Draught]
Having a college degree

549
00:26:10,325 --> 00:26:13,411
is pretty much a requirement
for achieving

550
00:26:13,494 --> 00:26:17,582
any kind of middle-class
security in our economy today.

551
00:26:17,665 --> 00:26:19,250
And when I let people know

552
00:26:19,334 --> 00:26:21,252
that only about one-third of
even young people

553
00:26:21,336 --> 00:26:22,921
have college degrees...

554
00:26:22,962 --> 00:26:24,442
These are journalists...
They're like,

555
00:26:24,505 --> 00:26:25,965
"What? That's it?"

556
00:26:28,468 --> 00:26:30,929
[Michelle] About two-thirds
of our generation is stuck

557
00:26:30,970 --> 00:26:33,765
in what's called
the wage labor, or gig economy.

558
00:26:33,806 --> 00:26:36,809
We face an impossible choice...

559
00:26:36,893 --> 00:26:39,395
Get the college degree
and the debt,

560
00:26:39,437 --> 00:26:41,231
or don't graduate from college,

561
00:26:41,272 --> 00:26:43,274
and get stuck in a dead-end job.

562
00:26:46,069 --> 00:26:49,113
60% of people
making minimum wage

563
00:26:49,197 --> 00:26:50,949
are millennials.

564
00:26:52,033 --> 00:26:55,453
If you work for tips...
And many young people do...

565
00:26:55,495 --> 00:27:01,292
You can legally be paid
$2.13 an hour.

566
00:27:01,376 --> 00:27:04,295
Today, what we have
is the proliferation

567
00:27:04,379 --> 00:27:06,339
of what I call
the bargain basement economy,

568
00:27:06,422 --> 00:27:10,176
and this is this massive,
massive amoeba

569
00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:13,137
of low-paying jobs
with no benefits,

570
00:27:13,179 --> 00:27:14,681
with erratic schedules,

571
00:27:14,764 --> 00:27:18,393
that really outnumber
professional occupations

572
00:27:18,476 --> 00:27:19,769
by about 3-to-1.

573
00:27:22,730 --> 00:27:24,816
[Michelle] The number-one job
for a millennial man

574
00:27:24,857 --> 00:27:27,819
in America today,
college degree or no...

575
00:27:29,487 --> 00:27:31,447
is driving a vehicle.

576
00:27:32,532 --> 00:27:35,285
And where are those jobs
gonna be in 30 years?

577
00:27:40,540 --> 00:27:42,166
Driverless car.

578
00:27:49,841 --> 00:27:51,718
[Michelle] As our generation
became aware

579
00:27:51,801 --> 00:27:53,386
of just how screwed up
the system was...

580
00:27:54,971 --> 00:27:57,557
a lot of us started
to get involved.

581
00:27:58,808 --> 00:28:01,394
Activism... we got political.

582
00:28:06,024 --> 00:28:08,401
And for most of us,

583
00:28:08,484 --> 00:28:10,445
our first taste
of American politics

584
00:28:10,528 --> 00:28:12,363
was filled with hope.

585
00:28:13,990 --> 00:28:16,618
[music]

586
00:28:18,077 --> 00:28:20,788
For many of us,
2008 was the first year

587
00:28:20,872 --> 00:28:21,915
we could vote.

588
00:28:23,958 --> 00:28:26,544
We were pivotal
in electing a man

589
00:28:26,586 --> 00:28:30,423
that embodied our generation's
view of diversity.

590
00:28:32,383 --> 00:28:34,886
[Barack Obama] Tonight,
because of what we did

591
00:28:34,969 --> 00:28:37,889
on this day, in this election,

592
00:28:37,931 --> 00:28:42,560
at this defining moment,
change has come to America.

593
00:28:42,644 --> 00:28:44,479
[cheers and applause]

594
00:28:46,022 --> 00:28:47,565
[Preston] When CNN
announced that he won,

595
00:28:47,607 --> 00:28:51,027
everybody just kinda
sat there like, "Whoa."

596
00:28:52,070 --> 00:28:53,270
[Corbin Bleu]
That was the first year

597
00:28:53,321 --> 00:28:54,781
that I was able to vote.

598
00:28:54,864 --> 00:28:57,450
Having our first
African American president

599
00:28:57,533 --> 00:29:00,536
was a huge milestone
for us as a generation.

600
00:29:00,578 --> 00:29:01,913
[Alexi Panos]
We had a movement,

601
00:29:01,955 --> 00:29:04,249
an uprising with Barack,
a movement of people

602
00:29:04,290 --> 00:29:06,417
who were sick
of the old politics

603
00:29:06,459 --> 00:29:08,795
could come together and say,
"Let's utilize this voice

604
00:29:08,878 --> 00:29:10,296
"that we have called
the internet,

605
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:13,007
and let's reach people like me
who never cared to vote."

606
00:29:13,091 --> 00:29:15,760
2008, I think for everybody
across the board,

607
00:29:15,802 --> 00:29:17,136
it shook everything up,

608
00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:19,430
and we got to see the power
of the internet,

609
00:29:19,514 --> 00:29:20,765
and we got to see the power

610
00:29:20,807 --> 00:29:24,644
of the millennial generation
in action.

611
00:29:24,727 --> 00:29:29,357
Yes, we can!
Yes, we can! Yes, we can!

612
00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:33,444
[Obama] For even
as we celebrate tonight,

613
00:29:33,486 --> 00:29:36,656
we know the challenges
that tomorrow will bring

614
00:29:36,739 --> 00:29:38,157
are the greatest
of our lifetime.

615
00:29:38,241 --> 00:29:40,159
[woman] The stock market
is now down...

616
00:29:40,243 --> 00:29:41,527
[woman 2] Let's talk
about the speed

617
00:29:41,578 --> 00:29:42,495
of which we are watching
this market deteriorate.

618
00:29:42,579 --> 00:29:43,859
[man] 'Cause we're now down 43%.

619
00:29:43,913 --> 00:29:45,123
[man 2] We haven't seen
anything like this

620
00:29:45,164 --> 00:29:48,167
probably since
the Great Depression...

621
00:29:48,251 --> 00:29:51,462
[Michelle] From the 1929
Great Depression

622
00:29:51,546 --> 00:29:57,302
to the 2008 Great Recession
was almost exactly 80 years.

623
00:29:57,385 --> 00:30:01,139
[clock ticking, chiming]

624
00:30:04,309 --> 00:30:06,144
Neil Howe has a name
for this type

625
00:30:06,227 --> 00:30:08,062
of recurring crisis.

626
00:30:08,146 --> 00:30:11,149
He calls it a fourth turning.

627
00:30:11,190 --> 00:30:14,944
We think that America entered
a fourth turning in 2008.

628
00:30:16,487 --> 00:30:18,364
It's a time of death and rebirth

629
00:30:18,448 --> 00:30:20,158
of institutional life.

630
00:30:20,199 --> 00:30:23,202
All of these entropy trends
toward individualism

631
00:30:23,286 --> 00:30:25,705
and lack of sort of organization

632
00:30:25,788 --> 00:30:29,500
eventually culminate in sort of
a crisis for society.

633
00:30:29,542 --> 00:30:32,670
[Erica] I remember driving
through the neighborhoods

634
00:30:32,712 --> 00:30:34,714
of these massive, like,
single-family homes

635
00:30:34,797 --> 00:30:36,748
that all these affluent
Black families had lived in.

636
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:38,635
They were all foreclosed.

637
00:30:38,676 --> 00:30:40,845
Suddenly, like,
families that I had known

638
00:30:40,887 --> 00:30:43,223
were either homeless,
near homeless,

639
00:30:43,306 --> 00:30:45,516
and these were families
that just a year or two before

640
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,352
weren't even close to the brink.

641
00:30:49,062 --> 00:30:51,356
[woman] 11 million homes
that their mortgage

642
00:30:51,397 --> 00:30:53,983
is more than the value
of their home.

643
00:30:55,818 --> 00:30:57,695
We're doing a...
Serving an eviction on you.

644
00:30:57,779 --> 00:31:00,031
You have to get a change
of clothes, stuff like that,

645
00:31:00,073 --> 00:31:02,700
and take off
in about 15 minutes.

646
00:31:02,742 --> 00:31:04,610
Well, I have my son upstairs
and he's sleeping right now.

647
00:31:04,661 --> 00:31:05,861
Okay, you need to wake him up.

648
00:31:09,707 --> 00:31:12,210
In the 1930s we had bread lines.

649
00:31:16,756 --> 00:31:20,218
Venture out before dawn
in America today

650
00:31:20,301 --> 00:31:22,428
and you'll find mortgage lines.

651
00:31:33,606 --> 00:31:34,899
[Roza Calderon]
I came to the U.S. as a refugee

652
00:31:34,941 --> 00:31:37,068
from El Salvador.

653
00:31:37,110 --> 00:31:39,571
I was two years old
and the war was rampant.

654
00:31:41,114 --> 00:31:42,949
My mother, who actually worked
as a secretary

655
00:31:43,032 --> 00:31:44,158
for the military government,

656
00:31:44,242 --> 00:31:46,244
she knew that the only place

657
00:31:46,327 --> 00:31:48,413
that we would be able
to have an opportunity

658
00:31:48,454 --> 00:31:50,623
to actually make it
was here in the U.S.

659
00:31:50,707 --> 00:31:53,918
She risked her life, she risked
never seeing us again

660
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,254
to cross the border
to give us that opportunity.

661
00:31:58,464 --> 00:32:00,091
When I was actually
starting my family,

662
00:32:00,174 --> 00:32:03,094
I realized that we couldn't
afford to have a child.

663
00:32:03,136 --> 00:32:06,598
Both my husband back then
and I made $10 an hour each.

664
00:32:06,639 --> 00:32:08,975
We could not even afford
daycare.

665
00:32:10,435 --> 00:32:11,677
I've been trying
to pay for school,

666
00:32:11,728 --> 00:32:13,354
I've been trying to pay
for my mortgage,

667
00:32:13,438 --> 00:32:15,356
I've been trying
to get a better education

668
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,901
not just for myself,
but for my daughter.

669
00:32:19,235 --> 00:32:20,653
[woman] The vote comes
just as nine

670
00:32:20,737 --> 00:32:22,071
of the nation's biggest banks

671
00:32:22,113 --> 00:32:24,616
reported losses
of 82 billion dollars

672
00:32:24,657 --> 00:32:27,952
while paying bonuses
totaling 33 billion dollars

673
00:32:28,036 --> 00:32:29,704
to employees...

674
00:32:29,787 --> 00:32:32,874
Banks that took
taxpayer bailout money.

675
00:32:32,957 --> 00:32:34,876
One of the things
that happened to me

676
00:32:34,959 --> 00:32:36,669
and millions of other Americans

677
00:32:36,753 --> 00:32:38,588
was that we not only lost
our jobs,

678
00:32:38,630 --> 00:32:40,632
we lost our homes,
we lost our families,

679
00:32:40,715 --> 00:32:42,759
we lost our spouses.

680
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,261
And we lost our sense
of security.

681
00:32:51,351 --> 00:32:53,853
Even though Obama represented
hope and change,

682
00:32:53,937 --> 00:32:56,147
there was zero accountability

683
00:32:56,189 --> 00:32:59,067
to those who crashed
the housing market.

684
00:32:59,150 --> 00:33:02,070
Not one executive
went to jail over it.

685
00:33:02,153 --> 00:33:05,823
The people united
will never be defeated!

686
00:33:05,865 --> 00:33:08,993
The people united will never
be defeated!

687
00:33:09,077 --> 00:33:10,828
Whose street?
Our street!

688
00:33:10,870 --> 00:33:12,455
Whose street? Our street!

689
00:33:12,497 --> 00:33:13,998
[woman] The protests
are spreading

690
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,417
from cyberspace to streets
all around the country.

691
00:33:16,501 --> 00:33:17,669
[overlapping shouting]

692
00:33:17,752 --> 00:33:20,171
I have done nothing wrong!

693
00:33:20,255 --> 00:33:22,006
[man] There is high unemployment

694
00:33:22,090 --> 00:33:23,675
among young Americans

695
00:33:23,758 --> 00:33:25,301
'cause this economy
is having such trouble,

696
00:33:25,343 --> 00:33:26,710
and young people
are having a difficult time...

697
00:33:26,761 --> 00:33:28,012
[man 2] Let me break it
to you...

698
00:33:28,054 --> 00:33:29,180
- But young people...
- All you have to do

699
00:33:29,222 --> 00:33:31,683
is take a shower,
and they can get a job

700
00:33:31,766 --> 00:33:34,018
if they went to college.

701
00:33:34,102 --> 00:33:37,355
[Ana] Occupy Wall Street
was an important movement

702
00:33:37,438 --> 00:33:39,691
that I believe was undermined
by the mainstream media.

703
00:33:40,942 --> 00:33:42,485
[woman] Here's what I saw.

704
00:33:42,527 --> 00:33:44,571
It's not just a bunch
of dancing hippies protesting.

705
00:33:44,654 --> 00:33:46,239
There are all kinds
of people there...

706
00:33:46,322 --> 00:33:49,200
Babies, teachers, cheerleaders,

707
00:33:49,284 --> 00:33:52,453
Uncle Sam-ta, and... that.

708
00:33:53,746 --> 00:33:56,541
Seriously?
What are they protesting?

709
00:33:56,583 --> 00:33:57,875
Nobody seems to know.

710
00:33:57,959 --> 00:33:59,836
[man]
The federal reserve system

711
00:33:59,877 --> 00:34:02,422
is printing money
out of thin air

712
00:34:02,505 --> 00:34:04,299
to bail out the banks

713
00:34:04,382 --> 00:34:07,093
so they can buy
your foreclosed home.

714
00:34:08,595 --> 00:34:09,846
[Renaldo] Nonviolent
direct action

715
00:34:09,888 --> 00:34:11,347
is civil disobedience.

716
00:34:11,389 --> 00:34:13,266
It is putting your body
on the line

717
00:34:13,349 --> 00:34:15,226
to do what John Lewis calls

718
00:34:15,310 --> 00:34:17,228
getting into good trouble.

719
00:34:18,313 --> 00:34:20,315
Civil disobedience,
nonviolent direct action,

720
00:34:20,398 --> 00:34:23,568
is not the liberal
or conservative thing to do.

721
00:34:23,651 --> 00:34:25,653
It's the right thing to do

722
00:34:25,737 --> 00:34:30,783
when unequal and unjust laws
stand in the way.

723
00:34:30,867 --> 00:34:33,244
[music]

724
00:34:47,133 --> 00:34:50,178
[Jay] A lot of people argue
that Occupy was a failure.

725
00:34:53,223 --> 00:34:55,600
But actually,
it was incredibly successful

726
00:34:55,642 --> 00:34:58,269
insofar as it helped
acquaint the country

727
00:34:58,353 --> 00:35:02,190
to the conversation about
the 99% versus the 1%.

728
00:35:02,273 --> 00:35:04,943
The Occupy organizers,
a number of them

729
00:35:04,984 --> 00:35:08,613
started to rethink, "How do we
bring about social change

730
00:35:08,696 --> 00:35:10,740
through electoral politics?"

731
00:35:10,782 --> 00:35:13,326
This platform became
the people for Bernie.

732
00:35:13,409 --> 00:35:16,162
[crowd cheering]

733
00:35:18,873 --> 00:35:21,626
How many people here
are dealing with student debt?

734
00:35:21,709 --> 00:35:23,962
Raise your hand.
Whoa.

735
00:35:24,003 --> 00:35:25,797
[Christine] Bernie Sanders
really spoke

736
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,298
to a new generation of voters.

737
00:35:29,050 --> 00:35:30,969
[Nina Turner] When you look
at the sea of people

738
00:35:31,010 --> 00:35:33,805
that he attracted, you did see
the millennial generation

739
00:35:33,846 --> 00:35:35,515
out there in full effect.

740
00:35:35,598 --> 00:35:38,434
That generation
is sending a signal

741
00:35:38,476 --> 00:35:40,937
to Gen X
and to the boomer generation

742
00:35:40,979 --> 00:35:44,482
about the type of future
they want to inherit.

743
00:35:44,524 --> 00:35:47,485
[woman] Welcome to the stage
activist and acclaimed actress

744
00:35:47,527 --> 00:35:50,822
from the "Divergent" series,
Shailene Woodley!

745
00:35:50,863 --> 00:35:53,908
[Shailene] I'm 24 years old,
and for many years

746
00:35:53,992 --> 00:35:56,953
I was the farthest thing
from calling myself political.

747
00:35:58,246 --> 00:36:00,331
Can we just acknowledge
how beautiful this day is?

748
00:36:00,373 --> 00:36:02,166
Look at how lucky we are!

749
00:36:02,208 --> 00:36:05,378
I know it's hot,
but it's beautiful!

750
00:36:05,461 --> 00:36:07,338
I'm so grateful to be here.

751
00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:10,133
A lot of people feel like
their voices don't matter.

752
00:36:10,174 --> 00:36:12,552
- Does your voice matter?
- [crowd] Yes!

753
00:36:14,637 --> 00:36:16,877
[Shailene] I felt like I didn't
have a voice in politics.

754
00:36:18,182 --> 00:36:20,059
And I spent months
doing a crash course,

755
00:36:20,143 --> 00:36:22,770
educating myself, learning,
being inspired

756
00:36:22,854 --> 00:36:24,689
by people around me
who were political.

757
00:36:24,772 --> 00:36:29,360
And what I've realized is that
all the suffering I see,

758
00:36:29,444 --> 00:36:31,029
all the oppression I see,

759
00:36:31,112 --> 00:36:33,364
all of the fear and the sadness,

760
00:36:33,448 --> 00:36:35,366
every single thing
that I care about

761
00:36:35,450 --> 00:36:37,911
eventually end up in politics.

762
00:36:37,994 --> 00:36:40,914
So, whether I like it or not,
I have to be political.

763
00:36:40,997 --> 00:36:43,416
[man] The single largest
campaign event

764
00:36:43,499 --> 00:36:45,710
of the 2016 presidential
election.

765
00:36:45,793 --> 00:36:48,546
[woman] Senator Bernie Sanders!

766
00:36:48,588 --> 00:36:51,716
[crowd] Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

767
00:36:51,758 --> 00:36:55,970
Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

768
00:36:56,054 --> 00:36:58,556
Bernie! Bernie!

769
00:36:58,598 --> 00:37:00,767
And now, to Vermont.

770
00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:03,478
How do you cast your 26 votes?

771
00:37:03,561 --> 00:37:05,897
[cheers and applause]

772
00:37:16,532 --> 00:37:19,661
[crowd chanting]
Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

773
00:37:22,247 --> 00:37:25,250
I move that Hillary Clinton
be selected

774
00:37:25,291 --> 00:37:28,461
as the nominee
of the Democratic party

775
00:37:28,544 --> 00:37:30,755
for President
of the United States.

776
00:37:30,797 --> 00:37:32,757
[cheers and applause]

777
00:37:39,055 --> 00:37:42,308
[Michelle] So, what really
happened in 2016?

778
00:37:42,392 --> 00:37:44,310
Well, a couple of things.

779
00:37:47,730 --> 00:37:50,733
First, the polls showed
that Bernie had a better chance

780
00:37:50,775 --> 00:37:53,653
of beating Donald Trump
than Hillary did.

781
00:37:53,736 --> 00:37:56,948
So, why didn't Bernie
run as an Independent?

782
00:37:56,990 --> 00:37:59,450
After all, he definitely
had the support.

783
00:38:01,369 --> 00:38:04,789
The short answer is America
is a two-party system,

784
00:38:04,872 --> 00:38:07,458
and that system
has been invaded.

785
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:09,377
Take a good look
at your beloved candidates.

786
00:38:09,460 --> 00:38:12,630
They're nothing but hideous
space reptiles.

787
00:38:12,714 --> 00:38:15,550
[crowd gasping, screaming]

788
00:38:18,678 --> 00:38:21,306
It's true.
We are aliens.

789
00:38:21,389 --> 00:38:23,141
But what are you
going to do about it?

790
00:38:23,224 --> 00:38:25,310
It's a two-party system.

791
00:38:25,393 --> 00:38:26,978
You have to vote for one of us.

792
00:38:27,020 --> 00:38:29,814
He's right, this is
a two-party system.

793
00:38:29,898 --> 00:38:32,015
Well, I believe I'll vote
for a third party candidate.

794
00:38:32,066 --> 00:38:35,486
Go ahead, throw your vote away!

795
00:38:35,528 --> 00:38:37,363
[evil laughing]

796
00:38:41,034 --> 00:38:42,660
[Michelle] America's
two-party system

797
00:38:42,702 --> 00:38:46,539
sets up a lose-lose scenario
for third party candidates.

798
00:38:46,623 --> 00:38:49,375
Here's how it works
against them.

799
00:38:49,459 --> 00:38:51,377
If we take the entire electorate

800
00:38:51,461 --> 00:38:53,338
and boil it down to 100 voters,

801
00:38:53,379 --> 00:38:55,673
those on the right
vote for a Republican

802
00:38:55,757 --> 00:38:58,718
and those on the left
vote for a Democrat.

803
00:38:58,801 --> 00:39:01,512
Those in the middle...
The 5 to 10%

804
00:39:01,554 --> 00:39:03,223
who might vote either way,

805
00:39:03,306 --> 00:39:05,600
actually end up
tipping the election.

806
00:39:07,143 --> 00:39:09,229
But let's see what happens
when we introduce

807
00:39:09,312 --> 00:39:11,231
a third party candidate.

808
00:39:11,314 --> 00:39:15,026
If their progressive,
the progressive vote is split,

809
00:39:15,109 --> 00:39:17,487
and the conservative wins.

810
00:39:17,528 --> 00:39:20,031
If the third party
is conservative,

811
00:39:20,073 --> 00:39:23,409
the conservative vote is split,
and the progressive wins.

812
00:39:23,493 --> 00:39:26,037
In this system,
the winning candidate

813
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,541
usually wins with less than
half of the winning votes.

814
00:39:30,583 --> 00:39:33,211
If Bernie had run
as an Independent,

815
00:39:33,253 --> 00:39:35,046
he would have split
the progressive vote

816
00:39:35,129 --> 00:39:36,381
with Hillary Clinton,

817
00:39:36,422 --> 00:39:38,633
and both of them
would have lost.

818
00:39:40,218 --> 00:39:42,178
Thank God <i>that</i> didn't happen.

819
00:39:44,055 --> 00:39:47,559
The second thing
that happened in 2016

820
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,061
was that even though
80% of millennials

821
00:39:50,144 --> 00:39:52,021
were registered to vote,

822
00:39:52,063 --> 00:39:54,440
only 50% of us
showed up to the polls.

823
00:39:56,067 --> 00:39:58,194
Why is that?

824
00:39:58,236 --> 00:40:02,740
Disenfranchise... to deprive
of a legal right

825
00:40:02,782 --> 00:40:07,245
or some privilege,
especially the right to vote.

826
00:40:07,328 --> 00:40:10,456
They didn't have to physically
take away our right to vote

827
00:40:10,540 --> 00:40:12,166
or prevent us from voting.

828
00:40:12,250 --> 00:40:16,254
All they had to do
was convince us not to care.

829
00:40:16,337 --> 00:40:21,634
In total, 102 million people
did not vote in 2016.

830
00:40:21,718 --> 00:40:24,762
In other words,
our two-party system

831
00:40:24,804 --> 00:40:26,764
actually disenfranchises

832
00:40:26,848 --> 00:40:30,560
almost half of the voting
population.

833
00:40:30,602 --> 00:40:32,604
But there is another way.

834
00:40:32,645 --> 00:40:35,690
In other countries,
like Australia and Ireland,

835
00:40:35,773 --> 00:40:39,777
they use ranked choice voting.

836
00:40:39,819 --> 00:40:42,614
Here's how
ranked choice voting works.

837
00:40:42,655 --> 00:40:44,657
Instead of choosing
just one candidate,

838
00:40:44,741 --> 00:40:49,621
you rank candidates
in order of preference.

839
00:40:49,704 --> 00:40:53,625
So, let's say your first choice
is mathematically eliminated.

840
00:40:53,666 --> 00:40:57,337
Your vote automatically
goes to your second choice.

841
00:40:58,838 --> 00:41:00,632
Ranked choice voting
is important

842
00:41:00,715 --> 00:41:03,551
because the majority
of Americans actually agree

843
00:41:03,635 --> 00:41:04,928
on the big issues...

844
00:41:06,512 --> 00:41:09,974
and America is actually
a purple country.

845
00:41:10,058 --> 00:41:12,310
Ranked choice voting
would give us something

846
00:41:12,352 --> 00:41:15,563
we desperately need
to be a true democracy...

847
00:41:15,647 --> 00:41:18,191
A third or even
a fourth party...

848
00:41:21,736 --> 00:41:25,823
unlike the current system
which always pulls us apart.

849
00:41:25,865 --> 00:41:28,785
And that's exactly
what happened in 2016.

850
00:41:28,826 --> 00:41:31,496
[applause]

851
00:41:31,579 --> 00:41:33,831
[Hillary] I know how
disappointed you feel,

852
00:41:33,915 --> 00:41:37,001
because I feel it too.

853
00:41:37,043 --> 00:41:40,004
And so do tens of millions
of Americans

854
00:41:40,046 --> 00:41:44,342
who invested their hopes
and dreams in this effort.

855
00:41:44,384 --> 00:41:48,721
This is painful,
and it will be for a long time.

856
00:41:48,805 --> 00:41:51,224
But I want you to remember this.

857
00:41:51,307 --> 00:41:54,644
Our campaign was never
about one person,

858
00:41:54,686 --> 00:41:57,021
or even one election.

859
00:41:57,063 --> 00:41:59,524
It was about the country
we love,

860
00:41:59,566 --> 00:42:04,028
and about building an America
that's hopeful, inclusive,

861
00:42:04,070 --> 00:42:05,697
and big-hearted.

862
00:42:05,780 --> 00:42:09,367
This loss hurts, but please,

863
00:42:09,450 --> 00:42:13,580
never stop believing
that fighting for what's right

864
00:42:13,663 --> 00:42:15,456
is worth it.

865
00:42:15,540 --> 00:42:17,875
[cheers and applause]

866
00:42:25,592 --> 00:42:28,887
[Michelle] Even though the 2016
millennial voter turnout

867
00:42:28,928 --> 00:42:32,891
was weak, Hillary Clinton
won the popular vote

868
00:42:32,932 --> 00:42:36,102
by almost three million votes.

869
00:42:36,185 --> 00:42:39,272
That means that almost
three million more people

870
00:42:39,355 --> 00:42:43,443
voted for Hillary Clinton
than Donald Trump.

871
00:42:43,526 --> 00:42:45,111
[crowd] USA!

872
00:42:45,194 --> 00:42:46,937
[Michelle] If you're wondering
how the candidate

873
00:42:46,988 --> 00:42:49,282
who lost the general election
became our president...

874
00:42:49,365 --> 00:42:51,868
Nobody knows the system
better than me.

875
00:42:51,910 --> 00:42:53,411
[Michelle] ...let's go back
to answer

876
00:42:53,453 --> 00:42:55,622
a very important question.

877
00:42:55,705 --> 00:42:58,708
Why didn't
the popular vote count?

878
00:42:58,750 --> 00:43:00,126
[man laughing]

879
00:43:00,209 --> 00:43:03,922
Well, due to an outdated
pro-slavery contraption

880
00:43:03,963 --> 00:43:06,299
called the electoral college
in America,

881
00:43:06,382 --> 00:43:09,010
we vote in districts.

882
00:43:09,093 --> 00:43:12,639
After each census,
which occurs every 10 years,

883
00:43:12,722 --> 00:43:15,266
representatives
at the state level

884
00:43:15,308 --> 00:43:17,936
redraw the district lines.

885
00:43:18,019 --> 00:43:20,772
To keep themselves in power,
these representatives

886
00:43:20,855 --> 00:43:24,943
use advanced software
to cut out dissenting votes.

887
00:43:25,026 --> 00:43:28,154
It's called gerrymandering.

888
00:43:28,238 --> 00:43:33,117
It is the very thing that makes
many of our votes not count.

889
00:43:38,373 --> 00:43:41,000
After Obama was elected in 2008,

890
00:43:41,084 --> 00:43:44,128
red states worked hard
to elect officials

891
00:43:44,170 --> 00:43:47,966
who would redraw
key district lines in 2010

892
00:43:48,007 --> 00:43:50,301
to lock out progressive votes.

893
00:43:50,385 --> 00:43:52,971
Then, in 2013, an important part

894
00:43:53,012 --> 00:43:55,348
of the Civil Rights Act
was overturned

895
00:43:55,431 --> 00:43:57,809
by the U.S. Supreme Court,

896
00:43:57,892 --> 00:44:00,812
making it okay for mostly
white Southern districts

897
00:44:00,853 --> 00:44:03,523
to turn away people of color
from polling places.

898
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:09,404
So, now you know why 2016
was such a cluster[bleep].

899
00:44:14,033 --> 00:44:17,996
In the wake of the election,
a youthful mix of rage

900
00:44:18,079 --> 00:44:20,540
at a broken political system

901
00:44:20,623 --> 00:44:24,711
and the desire
to do something grew.

902
00:44:24,794 --> 00:44:26,337
The Me Too Movement...

903
00:44:26,379 --> 00:44:27,672
Time's up! Time's up!

904
00:44:27,714 --> 00:44:28,965
To the Women's March...

905
00:44:29,007 --> 00:44:31,301
We are here
for the women of the world!

906
00:44:31,342 --> 00:44:32,802
To Black Lives Matter.

907
00:44:32,844 --> 00:44:34,012
- Hands up!
- Don't shoot!

908
00:44:34,053 --> 00:44:35,555
- Hands up!
- Don't shoot!

909
00:44:35,638 --> 00:44:37,056
- Hands up!
- Don't shoot!

910
00:44:37,140 --> 00:44:38,641
- Hands up!
- Don't shoot!

911
00:44:38,683 --> 00:44:41,185
I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!

912
00:44:41,227 --> 00:44:44,814
Black Lives Matter!
Black Lives Matter!

913
00:44:52,947 --> 00:44:55,867
[Michelle] But there was one
area of resistance

914
00:44:55,909 --> 00:44:58,494
that didn't quite get
the attention it deserved.

915
00:45:05,251 --> 00:45:09,923
[Shailene] When you enter
Standing Rock Reservation...

916
00:45:12,050 --> 00:45:15,386
you see the beginning
of the revolution

917
00:45:15,470 --> 00:45:17,639
that we are all a part of.

918
00:45:17,722 --> 00:45:21,059
[crowd] We are not leaving!
We are not leaving!

919
00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:23,728
[Michelle] This was about
an oil company

920
00:45:23,811 --> 00:45:27,565
that wanted to put a pipeline
over Native American grounds

921
00:45:27,607 --> 00:45:30,026
which we had granted
to Native American people

922
00:45:30,068 --> 00:45:31,694
as a result of treaties.

923
00:45:32,946 --> 00:45:35,073
[Shailene] This is a pipeline
that originally was meant

924
00:45:35,114 --> 00:45:37,283
to be built in Bismarck,
North Dakota.

925
00:45:37,367 --> 00:45:40,245
And when the people...
Mostly white...

926
00:45:40,286 --> 00:45:43,331
Found out that this pipeline,
when it breaks,

927
00:45:43,414 --> 00:45:45,917
would compromise the integrity
of their drinking water,

928
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,253
they chose to move the pipeline

929
00:45:48,336 --> 00:45:51,089
to half a mile north
of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

930
00:45:53,216 --> 00:45:55,927
[Michelle] It was there
in North Dakota

931
00:45:56,010 --> 00:45:58,179
that a handful
of Native American millennials

932
00:45:58,263 --> 00:45:59,889
began a peaceful protest.

933
00:46:03,017 --> 00:46:05,270
I saw young people
coming together,

934
00:46:05,311 --> 00:46:07,063
young people really being
at the forefront

935
00:46:07,105 --> 00:46:08,648
of this movement,
having a voice.

936
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,485
Indigenous rights
and environmental justice

937
00:46:12,569 --> 00:46:13,820
are so tightly tied together

938
00:46:13,903 --> 00:46:15,280
because when
these projects happen,

939
00:46:15,321 --> 00:46:16,614
they happen in our backyards.

940
00:46:16,698 --> 00:46:18,116
They happen in indigenous lands

941
00:46:18,199 --> 00:46:19,784
where we still are.

942
00:46:19,826 --> 00:46:22,620
We're still dealing with
the effects of colonization.

943
00:46:22,662 --> 00:46:24,062
We're still dealing
with land theft,

944
00:46:24,122 --> 00:46:25,665
with resource theft constantly.

945
00:46:29,627 --> 00:46:31,370
[Shailene] <i>This is bigger</i>
<i>than a pipeline, you guys.</i>

946
00:46:31,421 --> 00:46:33,172
<i>This is about humanity.</i>

947
00:46:33,256 --> 00:46:36,301
<i>We all look different, we all
believe in different things.</i>

948
00:46:36,342 --> 00:46:38,636
<i>But we all recognize
that water is not a privilege.</i>

949
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:39,929
<i>Clean water is a right.</i>

950
00:46:42,557 --> 00:46:44,934
We gained support from people
all over the world.

951
00:46:44,976 --> 00:46:46,519
You know, this is
a very clear issue

952
00:46:46,603 --> 00:46:48,313
of people defending water.

953
00:46:48,354 --> 00:46:50,231
[people shouting]

954
00:46:51,691 --> 00:46:53,651
[phone ringing]

955
00:46:53,735 --> 00:46:55,361
[man] <i>Corson County</i>
<i>Sheriff's Department.</i>

956
00:46:55,445 --> 00:46:57,989
[woman] <i>I need to report</i>
<i>an assault.</i>

957
00:46:58,031 --> 00:47:01,367
<i>There are malicious-style police</i>

958
00:47:01,451 --> 00:47:04,162
<i>firing at point-blank range
with high-powered mace.</i>

959
00:47:04,245 --> 00:47:06,331
[man] <i>Ma'am, yeah,</i>
<i>if there's police there,</i>

960
00:47:06,372 --> 00:47:07,624
<i>then it has...</i>

961
00:47:07,665 --> 00:47:08,958
[woman] <i>The police are the ones</i>

962
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,127
<i>attacking innocent,
unarmed people.</i>

963
00:47:11,169 --> 00:47:12,849
<i>We have elders here,
we have children here,</i>

964
00:47:12,921 --> 00:47:14,547
<i>we have all ages here.</i>

965
00:47:14,631 --> 00:47:16,591
<i>Nobody is armed
except for the police.</i>

966
00:47:16,674 --> 00:47:18,234
<i>Who protects the people
from the police?</i>

967
00:47:21,137 --> 00:47:23,765
[Tara] I've seen people
brutalized by police officers

968
00:47:23,848 --> 00:47:25,883
defending a pipeline,
defending corporate interests,

969
00:47:25,934 --> 00:47:29,103
seeing a counterintelligence
agency being deployed

970
00:47:29,187 --> 00:47:31,356
to infiltrate unarmed citizens

971
00:47:31,397 --> 00:47:33,566
and paint us
as jihadist terrorists.

972
00:47:33,650 --> 00:47:34,817
[Shailene] I'm being arrested.

973
00:47:34,859 --> 00:47:36,569
I hope you're watching,
mainstream media.

974
00:47:37,987 --> 00:47:39,656
[woman] We're protecting
the water,

975
00:47:39,697 --> 00:47:41,577
they're protecting oil,
that's what's happening.

976
00:47:44,035 --> 00:47:46,871
[man] The big question tonight
is how is the incoming

977
00:47:46,955 --> 00:47:49,749
Donald Trump administration
going to handle this project?

978
00:47:49,832 --> 00:47:52,543
It's no secret
President Elect Trump

979
00:47:52,585 --> 00:47:55,880
and his cabinet are pro-oil
and pro-pipeline.

980
00:47:55,922 --> 00:47:59,217
[Donald] This is with respect
to the construction

981
00:47:59,300 --> 00:48:03,137
of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

982
00:48:04,305 --> 00:48:08,393
Nobody thought any politician
would have the guts

983
00:48:08,434 --> 00:48:10,728
to approve that final leg.

984
00:48:10,812 --> 00:48:14,065
And I just closed my eyes
and said, do it.

985
00:48:14,107 --> 00:48:16,442
[scattered applause]

986
00:48:19,445 --> 00:48:21,239
[Tara] For every single person
that was there

987
00:48:21,281 --> 00:48:22,940
and for everyone
that followed that movement,

988
00:48:22,991 --> 00:48:27,245
they got to see firsthand what
corporate interest looks like.

989
00:48:27,287 --> 00:48:29,122
To understand that their rights
as citizens

990
00:48:29,205 --> 00:48:31,082
mattered less than
the rights of a company,

991
00:48:31,165 --> 00:48:34,252
and that was a huge win
for changing people's minds

992
00:48:34,335 --> 00:48:36,629
and opening their eyes
to what's really happening.

993
00:48:41,467 --> 00:48:43,595
[Ana] I think that
the protests at Standing Rock

994
00:48:43,636 --> 00:48:45,305
represent a cross-section

995
00:48:45,388 --> 00:48:47,807
between two huge issues
that we have,

996
00:48:47,891 --> 00:48:50,518
not only in this country,
but throughout the world.

997
00:48:50,602 --> 00:48:52,687
There's the issue
of corporate power

998
00:48:52,770 --> 00:48:54,439
and corporate influence,
and of course,

999
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,149
the issue of climate change

1000
00:48:56,232 --> 00:48:57,792
and what we're doing
to our environment.

1001
00:48:59,652 --> 00:49:00,945
[Xiuhtezcatl Martinez]
Anything we care about

1002
00:49:00,987 --> 00:49:03,156
in our lives,
whether it's gender equality,

1003
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:04,991
racial equality,
or indigenous rights,

1004
00:49:05,074 --> 00:49:07,118
clean water,
access to good education,

1005
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:08,453
healthy international
relations...

1006
00:49:08,494 --> 00:49:09,987
Like, if we look
at these different things,

1007
00:49:10,038 --> 00:49:12,081
climate change touches
all of them.

1008
00:49:12,123 --> 00:49:14,626
If you look at
industrial developments

1009
00:49:14,709 --> 00:49:17,420
since the beginning
of the Industrial Revolution,

1010
00:49:17,462 --> 00:49:20,173
our society, we know how
to build pipelines really well.

1011
00:49:20,256 --> 00:49:21,507
We've built a lot of 'em.

1012
00:49:21,591 --> 00:49:22,967
We know how to build
coal plants,

1013
00:49:23,051 --> 00:49:25,011
and power plants, refineries.

1014
00:49:25,094 --> 00:49:28,640
We know how to grow an economy
based on fossil fuels.

1015
00:49:28,681 --> 00:49:31,476
So, the question now
is not whether we can,

1016
00:49:31,559 --> 00:49:34,479
but how long until we transition

1017
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:35,980
to the next phase?

1018
00:49:36,064 --> 00:49:38,274
There's really a fight
between what's right

1019
00:49:38,316 --> 00:49:40,193
and what's easy.

1020
00:49:40,276 --> 00:49:44,072
I think the biggest question
is whether we'll do it in time.

1021
00:49:46,908 --> 00:49:49,494
Yeah, I wouldn't be doing this
if I didn't think we could.

1022
00:49:51,579 --> 00:49:54,666
[Chase Iron Eyes]
Our liberations are tied up

1023
00:49:54,749 --> 00:49:57,085
and dependent on each other.

1024
00:49:57,168 --> 00:49:59,420
We're playing both sides
of this drama.

1025
00:49:59,504 --> 00:50:02,173
I have to play this side,
and some people

1026
00:50:02,215 --> 00:50:05,009
are born in
and playing this other side.

1027
00:50:05,051 --> 00:50:08,680
But we have to realize that
there are these common forces

1028
00:50:08,721 --> 00:50:11,391
which are causing that drama
in the first place.

1029
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,521
The entire
petrol chemical industry,

1030
00:50:16,604 --> 00:50:19,857
that entire complex forces us

1031
00:50:19,899 --> 00:50:22,026
to participate
in our own destruction

1032
00:50:22,068 --> 00:50:25,280
and causes this
cognitive dissonance.

1033
00:50:26,990 --> 00:50:29,450
This isn't just about
Standing Rock.

1034
00:50:29,534 --> 00:50:34,872
This is about the entire future
of humanity and Mother Earth.

1035
00:50:34,914 --> 00:50:36,833
We're all in this together.

1036
00:50:39,961 --> 00:50:41,546
[Michael] The places
that our members

1037
00:50:41,629 --> 00:50:43,214
have worked to protect
are under threat

1038
00:50:43,256 --> 00:50:44,674
because of climate change.

1039
00:50:44,716 --> 00:50:46,259
And our air quality
is threatened

1040
00:50:46,342 --> 00:50:48,344
because of climate change,
and the stability

1041
00:50:48,386 --> 00:50:50,221
of our entire civilization
is at risk.

1042
00:50:50,305 --> 00:50:52,682
[Corbin] That is
the biggest issue

1043
00:50:52,724 --> 00:50:54,559
that my generation faces,

1044
00:50:54,601 --> 00:50:56,436
it's the environmental crisis.

1045
00:51:00,899 --> 00:51:04,110
We are in a do-or-die situation,

1046
00:51:04,193 --> 00:51:06,070
where we have to choose
right now,

1047
00:51:06,112 --> 00:51:07,906
what are we going to do?

1048
00:51:11,618 --> 00:51:13,786
[woman] The biggest wildfire...

1049
00:51:13,870 --> 00:51:15,580
[woman 2] The worst drought
to hit...

1050
00:51:18,666 --> 00:51:20,960
And I think now it's a question

1051
00:51:21,044 --> 00:51:23,254
that all of us
have to ask ourselves.

1052
00:51:23,296 --> 00:51:27,842
Are we willing to save
our species?

1053
00:51:27,926 --> 00:51:29,886
Because that's what
it's coming down to.

1054
00:51:36,184 --> 00:51:38,186
- [clears throat]
- [man] All right.

1055
00:51:38,269 --> 00:51:39,771
- So, we're ready to roll?
- Rolling.

1056
00:51:39,812 --> 00:51:41,564
[music]

1057
00:51:44,275 --> 00:51:46,486
- [Bill Maher] You're 16.
- [Xiuhtezcatl] Mm-hmm.

1058
00:51:46,569 --> 00:51:49,113
You may be the youngest
person on our show.

1059
00:51:49,197 --> 00:51:51,074
Setting records,
that's what's up.

1060
00:51:51,115 --> 00:51:53,952
I stand before you today

1061
00:51:53,993 --> 00:51:55,995
representing my entire
generation.

1062
00:51:56,079 --> 00:51:58,122
You've made three speeches,
right, at the UN?

1063
00:51:58,206 --> 00:51:59,656
- That's correct, yeah.
- Wow, that's three more

1064
00:51:59,707 --> 00:52:01,334
than I've made.
[laughter]

1065
00:52:01,417 --> 00:52:02,826
[Xiuhtezcatl] I saw
that climate change

1066
00:52:02,877 --> 00:52:04,963
was gonna be the defining issue
of our time.

1067
00:52:05,046 --> 00:52:09,509
Hello, my name is Xiuhtezcatl,
I'm six years old, I'm a boy.

1068
00:52:09,592 --> 00:52:11,543
So, for the last nine years,
since I was six years old,

1069
00:52:11,594 --> 00:52:13,012
I've been on the front lines

1070
00:52:13,096 --> 00:52:14,681
of climate
and environmental movements.

1071
00:52:14,764 --> 00:52:17,350
Climate change has got to go,
hey, hey!

1072
00:52:17,433 --> 00:52:20,436
In 2015 myself
and 20 other young people

1073
00:52:20,478 --> 00:52:22,313
filed a lawsuit against
the federal government

1074
00:52:22,355 --> 00:52:24,357
for failure to act
on climate change.

1075
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,150
A federal judge
ruled in your favor.

1076
00:52:26,192 --> 00:52:27,652
It's going forward now, right?

1077
00:52:27,694 --> 00:52:29,019
- So, congratulations.
- Appreciate that.

1078
00:52:29,070 --> 00:52:30,321
[Xiuhtezcatl]
We created a model

1079
00:52:30,405 --> 00:52:32,045
of what it would look like
if we put power

1080
00:52:32,115 --> 00:52:33,825
into the hands of young people.

1081
00:52:33,866 --> 00:52:35,776
We can if we unite together
as one people, one voice.

1082
00:52:35,827 --> 00:52:37,078
We can do it.

1083
00:52:37,161 --> 00:52:38,695
And if we actually
listen to their voices

1084
00:52:38,746 --> 00:52:40,081
and elevated their voices.

1085
00:52:40,164 --> 00:52:41,833
Now, who wants to make
a better future

1086
00:52:41,916 --> 00:52:43,668
for us and our children?

1087
00:52:43,710 --> 00:52:45,211
[cheers and applause]

1088
00:52:45,295 --> 00:52:48,339
Young people will need to play
a really critical role

1089
00:52:48,423 --> 00:52:49,799
in leading
these movements forward

1090
00:52:49,841 --> 00:52:51,175
if we wanna see
the kind of change

1091
00:52:51,217 --> 00:52:52,510
that the world is gonna need
to go through.

1092
00:52:52,552 --> 00:52:55,346
We just gotta make sure
it happens quick enough.

1093
00:52:55,388 --> 00:52:57,140
♪ Till the day we die,
everything I have ♪

1094
00:52:57,181 --> 00:52:58,516
♪ And everything
I've proven to be ♪

1095
00:52:58,558 --> 00:53:00,184
♪ Everything
the revolution could be ♪

1096
00:53:00,226 --> 00:53:01,853
♪ I can bleed onto a page,
claim that I'm the king ♪

1097
00:53:01,895 --> 00:53:03,938
♪ I believe that you can
realize your dreams, stop ♪

1098
00:53:04,022 --> 00:53:06,399
[music stops]

1099
00:53:06,482 --> 00:53:08,192
We know that we have
the solutions

1100
00:53:08,234 --> 00:53:09,527
to climate change.

1101
00:53:09,611 --> 00:53:11,029
We need to build
the political will

1102
00:53:11,112 --> 00:53:14,365
to make those solutions
go from ideas into reality.

1103
00:53:20,496 --> 00:53:22,707
[Michelle] Scientists tell us
that what happens

1104
00:53:22,790 --> 00:53:25,668
during the coming decade
will determine the fate

1105
00:53:25,710 --> 00:53:28,963
of our climate,
and possibly our species.

1106
00:53:33,509 --> 00:53:35,428
[Neil] The fourth turning is,
in a way,

1107
00:53:35,511 --> 00:53:37,722
the winter of history.

1108
00:53:45,104 --> 00:53:47,065
Today, we've entered another one

1109
00:53:47,148 --> 00:53:48,608
of these fourth turning eras.

1110
00:53:50,276 --> 00:53:52,570
The mood in a fourth turning
is more urgent.

1111
00:53:52,654 --> 00:53:55,365
Social chaos, civil war...
I mean, these are the issues

1112
00:53:55,406 --> 00:53:57,742
that arise in a fourth turning.

1113
00:53:57,784 --> 00:54:01,412
Institutions are torn down
and rebuilt from the ground up

1114
00:54:01,496 --> 00:54:04,874
in a way that would have seemed
unthinkable in other eras.

1115
00:54:12,924 --> 00:54:16,094
There seems to be
such a threat economically,

1116
00:54:16,177 --> 00:54:17,929
geopolitical threats.

1117
00:54:17,971 --> 00:54:20,098
[man] The U.S. and Iran
on the brink.

1118
00:54:20,181 --> 00:54:21,599
[Neil] The first lesson
of history

1119
00:54:21,683 --> 00:54:25,144
to be aware of is that
all of the total wars

1120
00:54:25,228 --> 00:54:26,938
in American history
all took place

1121
00:54:26,980 --> 00:54:28,147
during fourth turnings.

1122
00:54:30,233 --> 00:54:32,110
[man] North Korea fired
yet another

1123
00:54:32,193 --> 00:54:33,313
ballistic missile overnight.

1124
00:54:35,029 --> 00:54:37,365
[Neil] This is a sobering
lesson for history,

1125
00:54:37,448 --> 00:54:40,285
because at a time
of intense solidarity,

1126
00:54:40,326 --> 00:54:43,121
when you feel that the survival
of your community's at stake,

1127
00:54:43,204 --> 00:54:45,290
anything's on the table.

1128
00:54:45,331 --> 00:54:47,625
On our last fourth turning,

1129
00:54:47,709 --> 00:54:52,630
we recruited all of the top
scientists in America

1130
00:54:52,672 --> 00:54:55,466
to work on a weapon
of mass destruction,

1131
00:54:55,508 --> 00:54:57,010
and which we then deployed.

1132
00:55:00,805 --> 00:55:02,849
[explosion]

1133
00:55:09,063 --> 00:55:10,982
You think about the Civil War.

1134
00:55:11,065 --> 00:55:14,527
If we had had such a weapon,
would we have used it?

1135
00:55:14,611 --> 00:55:16,696
I think the question
answers itself.

1136
00:55:16,779 --> 00:55:18,239
Of course we would have.

1137
00:55:27,332 --> 00:55:29,876
[Michelle] Unfortunately,
history tells us

1138
00:55:29,959 --> 00:55:32,045
that things will probably
get a little worse

1139
00:55:32,128 --> 00:55:33,713
before they get better.

1140
00:55:35,465 --> 00:55:38,343
It also tells us
that Western civilization

1141
00:55:38,384 --> 00:55:41,095
is very cyclical.

1142
00:55:41,179 --> 00:55:45,183
About 240 years ago
there was a generation

1143
00:55:45,266 --> 00:55:47,936
who stood up against
a foreign tyranny

1144
00:55:48,019 --> 00:55:49,938
and fought the Revolutionary War

1145
00:55:50,021 --> 00:55:51,814
that created the United States.

1146
00:55:55,318 --> 00:55:57,528
Eighty years later,
there was a generation

1147
00:55:57,570 --> 00:55:59,656
of white land owners
and Black slaves

1148
00:55:59,697 --> 00:56:01,574
who fought together
in the Civil War

1149
00:56:01,658 --> 00:56:03,534
to end slavery once and for all.

1150
00:56:05,828 --> 00:56:08,957
Eighty years after that,
the G.I. Generation

1151
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,292
faced huge challenges.

1152
00:56:11,376 --> 00:56:13,753
They helped defeat the fascists.

1153
00:56:13,836 --> 00:56:15,797
They won the Second World War.

1154
00:56:18,716 --> 00:56:20,385
Eighty years.

1155
00:56:20,468 --> 00:56:21,844
Eighty years.

1156
00:56:23,429 --> 00:56:24,806
Eighty years.

1157
00:56:26,558 --> 00:56:30,103
Huh, it's been about 80 years.

1158
00:56:33,856 --> 00:56:35,525
[Neil] On our last
fourth turning,

1159
00:56:35,567 --> 00:56:38,236
Sinclair Lewis
wrote a book in 1936

1160
00:56:38,278 --> 00:56:40,572
called "It Can't Happen Here."

1161
00:56:40,655 --> 00:56:44,075
It was about the rise
of fascism in America,

1162
00:56:44,158 --> 00:56:46,452
and it was about a leader
who believed

1163
00:56:46,536 --> 00:56:48,246
in winning is everything,

1164
00:56:48,288 --> 00:56:50,582
and America has to do
whatever it takes,

1165
00:56:50,665 --> 00:56:53,918
however dirty it is, to get
itself back on top again.

1166
00:56:55,211 --> 00:56:58,464
It created a kind of world
that I would say to millennials

1167
00:56:58,548 --> 00:57:02,552
could best see embodied
in the movie version

1168
00:57:02,594 --> 00:57:04,137
of "Hunger Games."

1169
00:57:07,974 --> 00:57:11,352
Obviously, a very dystopian,

1170
00:57:11,436 --> 00:57:13,563
credibly negative turn
of history.

1171
00:57:16,441 --> 00:57:18,610
This is why
we need to take care,

1172
00:57:18,651 --> 00:57:21,070
we need to have wise leaders.

1173
00:57:23,615 --> 00:57:26,659
[Jennifer Lawrence] Hello.
Hello, New Orleans!

1174
00:57:26,743 --> 00:57:29,120
[cheers and applause]

1175
00:57:29,203 --> 00:57:32,790
So many of us have come from
across the political spectrum.

1176
00:57:32,832 --> 00:57:34,834
[cheers and applause]

1177
00:57:34,918 --> 00:57:38,004
Across ideologies,
across parties,

1178
00:57:38,087 --> 00:57:41,382
it's time to unite
to fix our democracy.

1179
00:57:43,593 --> 00:57:45,303
[Neil] A positive turn,
of course,

1180
00:57:45,345 --> 00:57:48,389
is that everyone
does their role well.

1181
00:57:48,473 --> 00:57:50,475
And millennials
keep the nation on track

1182
00:57:50,558 --> 00:57:51,893
toward a better future.

1183
00:57:53,353 --> 00:57:56,356
[man] This is our moment,
and it's time

1184
00:57:56,439 --> 00:57:58,316
to unrig the system.
Welcome.

1185
00:58:00,860 --> 00:58:04,489
By getting to the heart
of how corrosive an effect

1186
00:58:04,572 --> 00:58:06,491
money has on our politics,

1187
00:58:06,532 --> 00:58:08,826
and really regaining
that voice, and trust,

1188
00:58:08,910 --> 00:58:11,996
and confidence of the people,
that's how we can begin

1189
00:58:12,038 --> 00:58:14,999
to get back to a government
of by and for the people.

1190
00:58:15,041 --> 00:58:17,168
[man] We need people
in their 40s, 30s, and 20s

1191
00:58:17,252 --> 00:58:19,045
to take over our country.

1192
00:58:19,128 --> 00:58:21,339
All due respect
to people 50 and over,

1193
00:58:21,381 --> 00:58:23,091
we've had our way.

1194
00:58:23,174 --> 00:58:25,426
My generation
is the first generation

1195
00:58:25,510 --> 00:58:27,211
in the history of the country
that's gonna leave this country

1196
00:58:27,262 --> 00:58:29,681
in worse shape than we found it.

1197
00:58:29,722 --> 00:58:32,559
Regardless of where
our politics fall,

1198
00:58:32,642 --> 00:58:35,353
at the grassroots,
the American people

1199
00:58:35,395 --> 00:58:38,898
don't deserve to pay taxes
to a system

1200
00:58:38,982 --> 00:58:40,984
that is rigged against them.

1201
00:58:41,025 --> 00:58:42,902
[bleep] that.

1202
00:58:42,986 --> 00:58:45,613
[cheers and applause]

1203
00:58:46,739 --> 00:58:48,908
[Josh Silver] The movement
to unrig the system

1204
00:58:48,992 --> 00:58:51,536
has to include everybody.

1205
00:58:51,619 --> 00:58:53,371
It's got to include
Independents,

1206
00:58:53,454 --> 00:58:54,738
it's got
to include conservatives,

1207
00:58:54,789 --> 00:58:56,416
it's got to include
progressives.

1208
00:58:56,499 --> 00:58:59,544
Why?
Only 25% of the American people

1209
00:58:59,627 --> 00:59:01,379
self-identify as liberal.

1210
00:59:01,462 --> 00:59:05,216
That leaves 75% of the country
off the table.

1211
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:07,886
This is not radical stuff.

1212
00:59:07,927 --> 00:59:10,763
This is all within reach
if we can address

1213
00:59:10,847 --> 00:59:13,266
the structural problems
with our democracy.

1214
00:59:20,064 --> 00:59:22,734
[Michelle] If you want
to change a broken system,

1215
00:59:22,775 --> 00:59:26,070
you have to change
the structure of that system.

1216
00:59:26,112 --> 00:59:29,741
Structural change is a term
borrowed from economics.

1217
00:59:29,782 --> 00:59:32,243
It means change so vast

1218
00:59:32,327 --> 00:59:35,079
that it literally redefines
the fabric of society.

1219
00:59:38,750 --> 00:59:41,419
A great example
of structural change

1220
00:59:41,461 --> 00:59:43,922
comes from the unlikeliest
generation...

1221
00:59:45,715 --> 00:59:47,675
the silent generation.

1222
00:59:47,759 --> 00:59:49,177
[people chanting]

1223
00:59:49,260 --> 00:59:51,930
Turns out they weren't
so silent after all.

1224
00:59:54,849 --> 00:59:58,645
♪ Oh, this little light
of mine ♪

1225
00:59:58,728 --> 01:00:01,231
In the 1960s,
the silent generation

1226
01:00:01,272 --> 01:00:02,815
led the charge around
civil rights.

1227
01:00:05,151 --> 01:00:08,529
It culminated in the passage
of the Civil Rights Act.

1228
01:00:09,739 --> 01:00:13,785
The reason the civil rights
movement was so successful?

1229
01:00:13,868 --> 01:00:16,454
It had a singular objective.

1230
01:00:18,164 --> 01:00:20,083
The right to vote.

1231
01:00:22,627 --> 01:00:25,129
That kind of definable objective

1232
01:00:25,171 --> 01:00:27,173
is one of the most
powerful tools

1233
01:00:27,257 --> 01:00:29,050
in achieving structural change.

1234
01:00:30,677 --> 01:00:35,807
My fellow Americans,
I am about to sign into law

1235
01:00:35,848 --> 01:00:38,309
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

1236
01:00:38,351 --> 01:00:41,479
Its purpose is to promote

1237
01:00:41,521 --> 01:00:45,275
a more abiding commitment
to freedom,

1238
01:00:45,316 --> 01:00:48,736
a more constant
pursuit of justice,

1239
01:00:48,820 --> 01:00:52,156
and a deeper respect
for human dignity.

1240
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:53,741
Thanks a lot.

1241
01:00:53,825 --> 01:00:55,535
[overlapping chatter]

1242
01:01:03,126 --> 01:01:06,170
[Michelle] And then,
our parents' generation,

1243
01:01:06,212 --> 01:01:08,047
the baby boomers.

1244
01:01:08,131 --> 01:01:10,466
They passed the 26th Amendment,

1245
01:01:10,508 --> 01:01:13,344
giving 18-year-olds
the right to vote.

1246
01:01:13,428 --> 01:01:16,347
Because if they were old enough
to be drafted

1247
01:01:16,431 --> 01:01:18,766
and forced to fight
and die for their country,

1248
01:01:18,850 --> 01:01:20,935
then they're old enough to vote.

1249
01:01:22,604 --> 01:01:24,355
[Richard Nixon]
The right to vote

1250
01:01:24,439 --> 01:01:28,109
of all of our young people
between 18 and 21.

1251
01:01:28,192 --> 01:01:30,612
11 million new voters that's
a result of this amendment

1252
01:01:30,695 --> 01:01:34,157
that you now will see certified
by the GSA.

1253
01:01:34,198 --> 01:01:36,034
[Michelle] In essence,
our parents

1254
01:01:36,117 --> 01:01:37,243
gave us the right to vote.

1255
01:01:40,288 --> 01:01:42,457
Real change is possible.

1256
01:01:48,713 --> 01:01:52,133
Our constitution
isn't written on stone.

1257
01:01:52,217 --> 01:01:54,093
It's written on a piece
of paper.

1258
01:01:54,177 --> 01:01:56,137
And if you read that
piece of paper,

1259
01:01:56,221 --> 01:01:59,474
when things go wrong,
you write some more stuff.

1260
01:02:01,100 --> 01:02:03,228
To achieve full
structural change,

1261
01:02:03,311 --> 01:02:04,938
you've gotta deal with politics.

1262
01:02:09,067 --> 01:02:10,475
[Steven Olikara] For every
person who cares

1263
01:02:10,526 --> 01:02:12,612
about cleaning up a river,
that's great.

1264
01:02:12,695 --> 01:02:14,197
Organize your friends,
clean it up.

1265
01:02:16,366 --> 01:02:18,201
But then ask yourself,
why is that river

1266
01:02:18,243 --> 01:02:20,078
dirty in the first place?

1267
01:02:20,161 --> 01:02:22,247
And when you get down
that conversation,

1268
01:02:22,288 --> 01:02:23,957
you realize
that's a policy question.

1269
01:02:26,125 --> 01:02:28,086
[Dwight Bullard] My mom
used to make the argument,

1270
01:02:28,169 --> 01:02:29,921
that even going to the bathroom
was political.

1271
01:02:29,963 --> 01:02:33,091
The idea that waste management
is a thing, right?

1272
01:02:33,132 --> 01:02:34,509
That is a government entity.

1273
01:02:34,592 --> 01:02:37,136
When you press that lever
to flush the toilet,

1274
01:02:37,220 --> 01:02:38,930
it has to go somewhere.

1275
01:02:39,013 --> 01:02:41,933
And so, when you think
about it in that sense,

1276
01:02:41,975 --> 01:02:43,977
that the air we breathe,
the water we drink,

1277
01:02:44,060 --> 01:02:47,730
has someone either pulling
or pushing

1278
01:02:47,772 --> 01:02:51,234
to make some change
better or worse for you,

1279
01:02:51,276 --> 01:02:53,528
you as a person
need to get engaged.

1280
01:02:53,611 --> 01:02:55,989
And so, especially people
at the age of 18,

1281
01:02:56,072 --> 01:02:58,783
I mean, the ability to vote
and exercise that right to vote

1282
01:02:58,825 --> 01:02:59,951
is so critically important.

1283
01:03:01,786 --> 01:03:04,122
[Josh]
We have a desperate need

1284
01:03:04,163 --> 01:03:06,791
for young people to seek
elected office.

1285
01:03:06,874 --> 01:03:08,960
There's so many people
who think,

1286
01:03:09,002 --> 01:03:10,461
"Oh, I couldn't get elected,

1287
01:03:10,545 --> 01:03:12,630
I don't have money,
I don't have name rec..."

1288
01:03:12,714 --> 01:03:15,800
It's amazing what elbow grease
and determination can do.

1289
01:03:15,884 --> 01:03:18,177
It happens all the time.

1290
01:03:18,261 --> 01:03:20,471
[Norah] She's the first member
in Congress

1291
01:03:20,513 --> 01:03:23,182
born in American Samoa,
the first Hindu,

1292
01:03:23,266 --> 01:03:26,144
and one of the first two
female combat veterans.

1293
01:03:26,227 --> 01:03:28,095
Congresswoman, good morning,
thanks for joining us.

1294
01:03:28,146 --> 01:03:29,564
Thank you, aloha, good morning.

1295
01:03:29,647 --> 01:03:32,317
You are new to Congress
and you have recently...

1296
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,903
[Tulsi Gabbard] If I had
listened to all of the people

1297
01:03:34,986 --> 01:03:36,988
who told me
when I was 21 years old

1298
01:03:37,071 --> 01:03:39,324
that I was crazy
and I should never even think

1299
01:03:39,365 --> 01:03:42,285
about getting involved
with politics at that age,

1300
01:03:42,327 --> 01:03:43,995
then I wouldn't have run.

1301
01:03:48,875 --> 01:03:51,034
You know, at that time,
there was no political training

1302
01:03:51,085 --> 01:03:53,630
for young people to go through.

1303
01:03:53,671 --> 01:03:56,174
It was really like,
get on my computer,

1304
01:03:56,216 --> 01:03:58,843
build this
eight and a half by 11

1305
01:03:58,885 --> 01:04:01,846
black-and-white page
that I took to the copy shop

1306
01:04:01,888 --> 01:04:04,015
and printed out
a few hundred copies,

1307
01:04:04,057 --> 01:04:06,059
got in my car
with a bottle of water

1308
01:04:06,142 --> 01:04:08,269
and went out to start
knocking on doors.

1309
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:11,439
I was terrified.
[laughing]

1310
01:04:12,732 --> 01:04:14,025
[Michelle]
Congresswoman Gabbard

1311
01:04:14,067 --> 01:04:15,401
was one of the first millennials

1312
01:04:15,485 --> 01:04:17,278
to break into
the political system.

1313
01:04:21,324 --> 01:04:23,534
But by the 2018 midterms...

1314
01:04:23,576 --> 01:04:25,870
The future belongs to all of us!

1315
01:04:25,912 --> 01:04:27,372
[Michelle] ...a wave
of millennials

1316
01:04:27,413 --> 01:04:29,916
on the left and the right

1317
01:04:29,999 --> 01:04:31,251
had decided to run for office.

1318
01:04:33,086 --> 01:04:36,422
And not only did they run,
but many of them won.

1319
01:04:36,506 --> 01:04:41,261
In fact, of the 93 members
elected to Congress in 2018,

1320
01:04:41,344 --> 01:04:43,846
almost one-third of them
were millennials.

1321
01:04:43,888 --> 01:04:45,890
It's all part
of a nationwide trend...

1322
01:04:45,974 --> 01:04:47,934
Young people running for office.

1323
01:04:48,017 --> 01:04:50,895
A record number of millennials
are running for office.

1324
01:04:50,979 --> 01:04:53,064
West Hollywood Mayor
Lindsey Horvath joining me now.

1325
01:04:53,147 --> 01:04:55,900
Until I was elected,
everyone on the council

1326
01:04:55,942 --> 01:04:57,151
was over the age of 50.

1327
01:04:57,235 --> 01:04:59,904
[man] Women, people of color,
Muslims,

1328
01:04:59,946 --> 01:05:03,116
members of the LGBT community,
they're all signing up

1329
01:05:03,199 --> 01:05:04,909
to get their names
on the ballot.

1330
01:05:04,951 --> 01:05:07,412
[woman] Chase Iron Eyes,
who is an attorney

1331
01:05:07,495 --> 01:05:09,747
and an activist in
the Native American movement,

1332
01:05:09,831 --> 01:05:12,417
he's running for Congress
in North Dakota.

1333
01:05:12,500 --> 01:05:15,378
What we're witnessing right now
is a movement.

1334
01:05:15,420 --> 01:05:17,422
[Michelle] And a
disproportionately high number

1335
01:05:17,463 --> 01:05:18,965
of them were women.

1336
01:05:19,048 --> 01:05:20,758
[woman] This is the year
of the woman.

1337
01:05:20,842 --> 01:05:22,385
One of those women,
Ayanna Pressley.

1338
01:05:22,427 --> 01:05:23,627
[Ayanna] The Seventh
Congressional District

1339
01:05:23,678 --> 01:05:24,596
is the most diverse

1340
01:05:24,679 --> 01:05:27,265
and the most unequal,
and I'm running

1341
01:05:27,307 --> 01:05:29,601
to do something
specifically about that.

1342
01:05:29,642 --> 01:05:32,854
[woman] All while a mother
and pregnant with twins.

1343
01:05:32,937 --> 01:05:34,439
Republican candidate
for U.S. Congress,

1344
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:36,190
Christina Hagan.

1345
01:05:36,274 --> 01:05:38,016
[Christina] Being a young
woman, a millennial,

1346
01:05:38,067 --> 01:05:39,726
a conservative,
those are all unique things

1347
01:05:39,777 --> 01:05:41,279
in our political process.

1348
01:05:41,321 --> 01:05:43,990
[man] Roza Calderon, she is
the Democratic candidate

1349
01:05:44,073 --> 01:05:46,659
for California's
Fourth Congressional District.

1350
01:05:46,743 --> 01:05:48,026
[Roza] You know,
I'm a single mom,

1351
01:05:48,077 --> 01:05:49,621
and so I thought there's no way.

1352
01:05:49,662 --> 01:05:51,122
People like me
we're not supposed to run,

1353
01:05:51,164 --> 01:05:52,790
we're not meant to run.

1354
01:05:52,874 --> 01:05:55,627
But I kept thinking, why not me?

1355
01:05:55,710 --> 01:05:58,379
Why not an average
regular person

1356
01:05:58,463 --> 01:06:01,132
who understands the struggle
of the people to run?

1357
01:06:01,174 --> 01:06:04,135
[woman] Rashida Tlaib,
the first Muslim woman

1358
01:06:04,177 --> 01:06:06,221
in Congress in the country.

1359
01:06:06,304 --> 01:06:08,139
[man] Twin sisters
are both running

1360
01:06:08,181 --> 01:06:10,642
for Michigan County
Commissioner seats.

1361
01:06:10,725 --> 01:06:12,018
- Good morning.
- So, how did one

1362
01:06:12,101 --> 01:06:13,978
become a Democrat
and one become a Republican?

1363
01:06:14,020 --> 01:06:16,439
We are trying to move
things forward,

1364
01:06:16,481 --> 01:06:18,316
and we can't do it
when we're fighting

1365
01:06:18,358 --> 01:06:19,442
against each other.

1366
01:06:21,277 --> 01:06:23,187
[Michelle] Even President Trump
noticed that something big

1367
01:06:23,238 --> 01:06:24,739
had changed in Congress.

1368
01:06:26,532 --> 01:06:30,995
We also have more women
serving in Congress

1369
01:06:31,037 --> 01:06:33,373
than at any time before.

1370
01:06:33,456 --> 01:06:35,833
[cheers and applause]

1371
01:06:35,917 --> 01:06:41,339
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA!

1372
01:06:41,422 --> 01:06:42,674
Very good.

1373
01:06:42,715 --> 01:06:45,009
And congratulations,
that's great.

1374
01:06:45,093 --> 01:06:47,637
[Michelle] But perhaps
the most surprising thing

1375
01:06:47,679 --> 01:06:51,349
that happened in the 2018
midterms was this.

1376
01:06:51,432 --> 01:06:53,560
- I can't let you know...
- Oh my God!

1377
01:06:53,643 --> 01:06:55,687
She's looking at herself
on television.

1378
01:06:55,728 --> 01:06:58,356
We wanna begin with some
breaking political news.

1379
01:06:58,398 --> 01:07:01,025
A 28-year-old
Democratic Socialist

1380
01:07:01,067 --> 01:07:04,279
beating a man who some saw as
the next Speaker of the House.

1381
01:07:04,362 --> 01:07:06,239
[man] At 29 years old,
she will become

1382
01:07:06,322 --> 01:07:08,616
the youngest-serving
congresswoman ever.

1383
01:07:10,410 --> 01:07:12,036
[Alexandria]
Running for Congress,

1384
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:15,206
it was never something that
I thought I'd be able to do,

1385
01:07:15,248 --> 01:07:17,584
because our system
is not designed

1386
01:07:17,667 --> 01:07:19,877
for working-class Americans
to hold office.

1387
01:07:19,919 --> 01:07:23,506
Working 18-hours days,
and little things

1388
01:07:23,548 --> 01:07:25,341
like trying to afford
health insurance

1389
01:07:25,383 --> 01:07:28,553
when you're a waitress,
showed me what it's like

1390
01:07:28,595 --> 01:07:31,055
to be an American in a way

1391
01:07:31,139 --> 01:07:33,433
that I don't think most
public officials understand.

1392
01:07:35,935 --> 01:07:37,979
[Michelle] Her values
were simple and clear.

1393
01:07:40,148 --> 01:07:42,901
[Alexandria] I believe that
healthcare is a right.

1394
01:07:42,984 --> 01:07:47,280
I believe that our climate
is in a crisis right now.

1395
01:07:47,363 --> 01:07:49,574
I believe that
every single American

1396
01:07:49,616 --> 01:07:51,576
should have the opportunity
to attend college

1397
01:07:51,659 --> 01:07:53,411
or trade school.

1398
01:07:53,494 --> 01:07:55,622
We see that this
is not a pipe dream.

1399
01:07:55,705 --> 01:07:58,416
Every other developed nation
in the world does this.

1400
01:07:58,499 --> 01:08:00,084
Why can't America?

1401
01:08:02,086 --> 01:08:05,965
We will not rest until
every person in this country

1402
01:08:06,049 --> 01:08:09,886
is paid a living wage to lead
a dignified life.

1403
01:08:14,432 --> 01:08:16,434
[Michelle] And perhaps
most importantly,

1404
01:08:16,476 --> 01:08:19,103
she wanted to do
something radical...

1405
01:08:19,145 --> 01:08:23,524
To use government policy
to combat the climate crisis.

1406
01:08:26,069 --> 01:08:28,279
[Alexandria] Climate change and
our environmental challenges

1407
01:08:28,321 --> 01:08:31,449
are one of the biggest
existential threats

1408
01:08:31,532 --> 01:08:33,493
to our way of life.

1409
01:08:33,576 --> 01:08:35,036
[man] The Green New Deal

1410
01:08:35,119 --> 01:08:38,122
calls for a 10-year
national mobilization

1411
01:08:38,164 --> 01:08:40,458
to bring greenhouse
gas emissions to zero,

1412
01:08:40,541 --> 01:08:45,004
meet 100% of energy needs
by renewable sources.

1413
01:08:45,088 --> 01:08:48,341
Our climate is in a crisis
right now,

1414
01:08:48,424 --> 01:08:52,053
and that for our economy
and for our children,

1415
01:08:52,136 --> 01:08:54,847
it is time to move over
to a renewable energy economy

1416
01:08:54,931 --> 01:08:56,808
by 2028.

1417
01:08:56,849 --> 01:08:58,810
[Michelle] It should come
as no surprise

1418
01:08:58,893 --> 01:09:02,480
that the Green New Deal was met
with heavy-handed opposition.

1419
01:09:02,522 --> 01:09:05,483
What is this Green New Deal?
Answer?

1420
01:09:05,525 --> 01:09:07,694
Radical,
environmental socialism.

1421
01:09:07,777 --> 01:09:09,445
When we outlaw plane travel,

1422
01:09:09,487 --> 01:09:11,823
we outlaw gasoline,
we outline cars.

1423
01:09:11,864 --> 01:09:14,325
There's another victim of the
Green New Deal, it's ice cream.

1424
01:09:14,409 --> 01:09:17,036
Wants to go after flatulent
cows, so what are they saying,

1425
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,038
- we're gonna ban hamburgers?
- No more steak.

1426
01:09:19,122 --> 01:09:21,916
I guess government-forced
veganism is in order.

1427
01:09:25,336 --> 01:09:29,007
[Michelle] You have to wonder
if that opposition

1428
01:09:29,090 --> 01:09:31,718
has anything to do with
where our elected officials

1429
01:09:31,801 --> 01:09:34,053
typically get their funding.

1430
01:09:36,681 --> 01:09:38,048
[Alexandria] If I wanna run
a campaign

1431
01:09:38,099 --> 01:09:40,059
that is entirely funded

1432
01:09:40,143 --> 01:09:42,186
by corporate
political action committees,

1433
01:09:42,228 --> 01:09:43,688
is that... is there anything

1434
01:09:43,771 --> 01:09:46,190
that legally prevents me
from doing that?

1435
01:09:46,232 --> 01:09:47,525
No.

1436
01:09:47,609 --> 01:09:49,611
Are there any limits on the laws

1437
01:09:49,694 --> 01:09:52,405
that I can write or influence?

1438
01:09:52,488 --> 01:09:53,897
- There's no limit.
- So, there's none.

1439
01:09:53,948 --> 01:09:56,284
So, I can be totally funded
by oil and gas,

1440
01:09:56,367 --> 01:09:58,870
I can be totally funded
by Big Pharma, come in,

1441
01:09:58,912 --> 01:10:00,788
write Big Pharma laws,
and there's no limits

1442
01:10:00,872 --> 01:10:02,312
- to that whatsoever?
- That's right.

1443
01:10:03,833 --> 01:10:06,711
[Michelle] But AOC,
as she's now called,

1444
01:10:06,753 --> 01:10:09,214
isn't the only young leader
who wants to use government

1445
01:10:09,255 --> 01:10:11,549
to stop climate change.

1446
01:10:11,591 --> 01:10:13,927
[woman] A 15-year-old
Swedish climate activist,

1447
01:10:14,010 --> 01:10:17,889
Greta Thunberg, has called for
a global climate strike today.

1448
01:10:17,972 --> 01:10:19,224
[crowd] Climate justice!

1449
01:10:20,767 --> 01:10:24,270
You are not mature enough
to tell it like it is.

1450
01:10:24,354 --> 01:10:28,066
Even that burden,
you leave to us children.

1451
01:10:28,149 --> 01:10:30,902
But I don't care
about being popular.

1452
01:10:30,985 --> 01:10:34,280
I care about climate justice
and the living planet.

1453
01:10:35,698 --> 01:10:37,951
And if solutions
within this system

1454
01:10:38,034 --> 01:10:39,827
are so impossible to find,

1455
01:10:39,911 --> 01:10:43,456
then maybe we should change
the system itself.

1456
01:10:43,539 --> 01:10:45,917
We have come here
to let you know

1457
01:10:45,959 --> 01:10:48,836
that change is coming,
whether you like it or not.

1458
01:10:51,965 --> 01:10:54,175
[woman] Her speeches have
inspired children

1459
01:10:54,259 --> 01:10:55,593
around the world
to take to the streets.

1460
01:10:55,635 --> 01:10:57,095
[crowds shouting]

1461
01:10:57,136 --> 01:10:59,889
[music]

1462
01:11:10,608 --> 01:11:13,444
[man] An estimated
one million young people

1463
01:11:13,486 --> 01:11:16,239
across the globe struck today,
walking out of their schools

1464
01:11:16,281 --> 01:11:17,991
to protest the threat
of climate change.

1465
01:11:18,074 --> 01:11:20,827
[Greta] Why should we
be studying for a future

1466
01:11:20,910 --> 01:11:22,996
that soon may not exist anymore?

1467
01:11:28,876 --> 01:11:32,130
[Neil] 'Cause we often
think that, "Oh my gosh,

1468
01:11:32,213 --> 01:11:36,426
we just don't have the leader
for these times," right?

1469
01:11:36,467 --> 01:11:40,138
But my sense of history is,
whoever came up to plate

1470
01:11:40,221 --> 01:11:42,849
was impelled by the very nature
of the times

1471
01:11:42,932 --> 01:11:44,350
to make the right decision.

1472
01:11:44,434 --> 01:11:45,518
- Climate!
- Justice!

1473
01:11:45,602 --> 01:11:47,145
[chanting continues]

1474
01:11:47,186 --> 01:11:48,387
[Xiuhtezcatl] When people ask,
What gives you hope?"

1475
01:11:48,438 --> 01:11:49,480
Like, that's what gives me hope.

1476
01:11:49,522 --> 01:11:51,983
[inaudible]

1477
01:11:52,025 --> 01:11:55,486
There are youth worldwide that
are in positions of leadership

1478
01:11:55,570 --> 01:11:57,739
that are leading the way
for other young people.

1479
01:11:57,822 --> 01:12:01,910
This is a creative, innovative,
fast-paced generation

1480
01:12:01,993 --> 01:12:04,787
that is making things happen,
and at the forefront of change.

1481
01:12:06,831 --> 01:12:10,001
[Neil] There's a sense
in which the turnings

1482
01:12:10,043 --> 01:12:12,045
create the leaders,
not the leaders

1483
01:12:12,128 --> 01:12:13,713
create the turnings.

1484
01:12:13,796 --> 01:12:16,341
That is to say, the mood
creates the opportunity

1485
01:12:16,382 --> 01:12:18,051
for a certain kind of leader

1486
01:12:18,134 --> 01:12:19,844
to make a great leader
out of someone

1487
01:12:19,928 --> 01:12:22,305
who in another period
would have been a nonentity.

1488
01:12:24,140 --> 01:12:27,352
What I know for sure
is young people

1489
01:12:27,435 --> 01:12:29,145
have the answer.

1490
01:12:29,187 --> 01:12:31,606
Older people
have the answer too.

1491
01:12:34,484 --> 01:12:36,527
[Neil] I often get asked
the question, you know,

1492
01:12:36,611 --> 01:12:39,239
"Can we avoid
a fourth turning?"

1493
01:12:39,322 --> 01:12:44,702
And I guess my answer is,
we often want to avoid things,

1494
01:12:44,786 --> 01:12:46,871
and we're always sorry
of the consequences

1495
01:12:46,913 --> 01:12:48,289
of trying to avoid it.

1496
01:12:50,500 --> 01:12:52,877
Occasionally you need a fire,
occasionally you need something

1497
01:12:52,919 --> 01:12:55,380
to purge out stuff
that doesn't fit anymore.

1498
01:12:57,257 --> 01:12:59,259
It calls forth qualities

1499
01:12:59,342 --> 01:13:01,886
which otherwise remain
dormant in us.

1500
01:13:06,432 --> 01:13:09,561
Making us bigger, better,
sometimes larger

1501
01:13:09,644 --> 01:13:11,396
than we otherwise
would have been.

1502
01:13:22,115 --> 01:13:26,077
[Preston] So, my greatest hope
is that we come together

1503
01:13:26,119 --> 01:13:28,329
in unprecedented ways.

1504
01:13:29,455 --> 01:13:32,458
And let's figure out
a way to work together

1505
01:13:32,542 --> 01:13:34,210
despite our differences.

1506
01:13:35,837 --> 01:13:37,797
If we can do that...
<i>When</i> we do that...

1507
01:13:37,881 --> 01:13:42,760
Not if, <i>when</i> we do that,
the whole world shifts.

1508
01:13:42,844 --> 01:13:47,432
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1509
01:13:47,515 --> 01:13:49,684
This whole revolution thing
that we're talking about,

1510
01:13:49,767 --> 01:13:52,437
it really is a consciousness

1511
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,940
that says that we will make
the impossible possible,

1512
01:13:56,024 --> 01:13:59,193
no matter our generation,
our race, our gender,

1513
01:13:59,277 --> 01:14:01,654
our sexual orientation,
our religion.

1514
01:14:01,738 --> 01:14:06,200
We're fighting for an America
as good as its promise.

1515
01:14:06,284 --> 01:14:08,036
[Shailene] We're here
for a reason.

1516
01:14:08,119 --> 01:14:10,788
That reason is to unite,
and that reason

1517
01:14:10,830 --> 01:14:13,124
is to put truth,
and integrity, and justice,

1518
01:14:13,207 --> 01:14:16,794
and kindness, and love
at the forefront

1519
01:14:16,878 --> 01:14:19,172
of every single thing we do.

1520
01:14:19,255 --> 01:14:22,300
Only love can defeat hate.

1521
01:14:22,383 --> 01:14:24,969
So, if there are things
going on that we don't like,

1522
01:14:25,011 --> 01:14:28,514
take that energy and fuel it
in a positive way.

1523
01:14:28,598 --> 01:14:31,976
But it's not gonna happen
unless you step up

1524
01:14:32,060 --> 01:14:34,145
and do something about it.

1525
01:14:34,229 --> 01:14:36,314
[Alexi] Yes, we might
be on our cellphones a lot.

1526
01:14:36,397 --> 01:14:38,608
But guess what, a lot of us
are creating movements

1527
01:14:38,650 --> 01:14:40,151
on those cellphones.

1528
01:14:40,235 --> 01:14:43,363
Whatever it might be,
we are literally the ones

1529
01:14:43,446 --> 01:14:46,282
changing the world
right now as we speak.

1530
01:14:46,324 --> 01:14:48,910
[Steven] This is real change
I'm seeing

1531
01:14:48,993 --> 01:14:51,579
on the ground right now,
but people don't see it yet

1532
01:14:51,663 --> 01:14:53,665
because it doesn't make
the headlines.

1533
01:14:53,706 --> 01:14:56,042
It's not sensational
and conflict-driven.

1534
01:14:56,125 --> 01:14:57,752
It's real progress.

1535
01:15:01,214 --> 01:15:03,841
[Neil] We need to keep in mind
who we are as a people,

1536
01:15:03,925 --> 01:15:06,719
and preserve those values
into the next turning.

1537
01:15:06,803 --> 01:15:08,429
And the next first turning,

1538
01:15:08,513 --> 01:15:10,682
which I think
will probably happen

1539
01:15:10,723 --> 01:15:13,935
at the very end of the 2020s,
that'll be the time

1540
01:15:14,018 --> 01:15:16,354
when the generation
after millennials,

1541
01:15:16,396 --> 01:15:20,316
this new homeland generation,
they will be coming of age.

1542
01:15:20,358 --> 01:15:22,026
My friends and I
might still be 11,

1543
01:15:22,068 --> 01:15:23,486
but we know what is right
and wrong.

1544
01:15:23,528 --> 01:15:26,489
We say, no more!

1545
01:15:28,074 --> 01:15:29,826
[Neil] Millennials
are beginning to move

1546
01:15:29,867 --> 01:15:32,537
into real leadership roles
for the first time.

1547
01:15:32,579 --> 01:15:34,497
This will be the new golden age,

1548
01:15:34,539 --> 01:15:36,332
because we will have
successfully,

1549
01:15:36,374 --> 01:15:39,210
finally by dint of this
great collective struggle

1550
01:15:39,252 --> 01:15:42,505
solved so many global problems,
environmental problems,

1551
01:15:42,547 --> 01:15:44,215
that will last
for the next couple

1552
01:15:44,299 --> 01:15:45,758
of generations after that.

1553
01:15:48,970 --> 01:15:51,222
[Xiuhtezcatl] Every generation
leaves something behind

1554
01:15:51,264 --> 01:15:52,724
to be remembered by,

1555
01:15:52,765 --> 01:15:55,101
and we are at a tipping point
right now.

1556
01:15:55,184 --> 01:15:58,771
We are being called upon
to use our courage,

1557
01:15:58,855 --> 01:16:00,940
our innovation, our creativity,

1558
01:16:01,024 --> 01:16:04,777
and our passion
to bring forth a new world.

1559
01:16:06,112 --> 01:16:07,572
[Renaldo] And with that,
I'll leave you

1560
01:16:07,614 --> 01:16:10,283
with these words from
Rabbi Maimonides.

1561
01:16:11,993 --> 01:16:17,749
"The world is equally balanced
between good and evil.

1562
01:16:17,790 --> 01:16:21,085
Your next act
will tip the scales."

1563
01:16:21,127 --> 01:16:23,463
[cheers and applause]

1564
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:29,761
[Michelle] We're the most
educated, gender-fluid,

1565
01:16:29,844 --> 01:16:33,139
entrepreneurial,
mobile, text-savvy,

1566
01:16:33,223 --> 01:16:36,100
the most connected,
politically independent,

1567
01:16:36,184 --> 01:16:37,769
most radically diverse,

1568
01:16:37,852 --> 01:16:40,730
as well as the most
globally aware generation

1569
01:16:40,772 --> 01:16:42,315
in history.

1570
01:16:42,398 --> 01:16:44,734
The mission of our generation
is simple.

1571
01:16:46,653 --> 01:16:50,740
Use every tool we have,
including our political system,

1572
01:16:50,782 --> 01:16:53,993
to fix our climate
and save our future.

1573
01:16:55,453 --> 01:16:58,456
We don't need approval
or permission

1574
01:16:58,539 --> 01:17:00,458
to change our future.

1575
01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:02,460
We only need each other.

1576
01:17:04,587 --> 01:17:08,299
The hero of our generation
<i>is</i> our generation.

1577
01:17:08,383 --> 01:17:12,345
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1578
01:17:13,888 --> 01:17:19,686
♪ We are rising up,
we are rising up ♪

1579
01:17:19,769 --> 01:17:23,606
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1580
01:17:25,191 --> 01:17:30,989
♪ We are rising up,
we are rising up ♪

1581
01:17:31,030 --> 01:17:34,993
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1582
01:17:36,536 --> 01:17:42,208
♪ We are rising up,
we are rising up ♪

1583
01:17:42,292 --> 01:17:46,296
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1584
01:17:47,839 --> 01:17:54,554
♪ We are rising up,
we are rising up ♪

1585
01:17:56,556 --> 01:18:00,560
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1586
01:18:21,623 --> 01:18:24,542
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

1587
01:18:24,626 --> 01:18:29,047
♪ This is a revolution ♪

1588
01:18:32,842 --> 01:18:36,012
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

1589
01:18:36,054 --> 01:18:40,433
♪ This is a revolution ♪♪

1590
01:18:48,942 --> 01:18:51,361
[music]