Name: Charlotte Alter: "Harry Potter" Has Shaped The Role Of Millennials To Fight Authoritarianism
Uploaded: 2020-03-13T01:20:27.000Z
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( BAND PLAYING )  ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

>> Stephen: HEY, WELCOME BACK, EVERYBODY!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY NEXT GUEST IS A NATIONAL

CORRESPONDENT FOR "TIME" MAGAZINE WHOSE NEW BOOK IS

CALLED "THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR."

>> Stephen: NOW, THE NAME OF THE BOOK, WE'VE GOT IT RIGHT

HERE, AS I SAID BEFORE, IS "THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR."

AND IT'S-- CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG HERE-- IT'S ABOUT THE

LEADERS OF THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION THAT HAVE EMERGED IN

YOU'VE BEEN COVERING POLITICS FOR "TIME" MAGAZINE.

YOU'RE ONE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAS COME TO REPLACE ALL OF

>> Stephen: WHO MADE THE CUTS OF "THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING

HOW DID YOU CHOOSE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS BOOK?

>> I WAS SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR ELECTED LEADERS WHO WERE

BORN BETWEEN 1981 AND 1996 -- >> Stephen: IS THAT

>> YES, THAT'S MILLENNIALS, WHOSE LIVES HAD INTERSECTED IN

SOME FUNDAMENTAL WAY WITH THE MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THAT

SO I WAS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD SERVED IN THE WARS IN IRAQ

AND AFGHANISTAN OR WHO HAD BEEN IMPACTED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

OR WHO HAD EXPERIENCED CRUSHING STUDENT DEBT, OR WHO HAD

PARTICIPATED IN BLACK LIVES MATTER OR OCCUPY, BECAUSE THE

POINT OF THIS BOOK IS TO SHOW HOW THOSE FORCES HAVE SHAMED THE

LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE IN CHARGE IN OUR

THERE ARE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN THIS BOOK.

THEY VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS BY ROUGHLY TWO TO ONE IN THE MOST

RECENT MIDTERMS, BUT THERE ARE MILLENNIAL REPUBLICANS.

>> Stephen: WHERE DID THE TITLE COME FROM?

>> IT COMES FROM A 2008 SPEECH BY BARACK OBAMA WHERE HE SAID,

"WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR."

AND IN A LOT OF WAYS THIS BOOK IS ABOUT OBAMA'S LEGACY.

IT'S ABOUT HOW HIS PRESIDENCY INSPIRED THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO

HELPED MAKE HIM PRESIDENT AND HOW THEY'RE TAKING THE LESSONS

OF HIS PRESIDENCY INTO THE FUTURE, INCLUDING SOME OF HIS

>> Stephen: OKAY, BUT IF MILLENNIALS ARE SO INSPIRED BY

BARACK OBAMA, THEN HOW COME MILLENNIALS DON'T VOTE MORE?

THEY'RE APPLAUDING-- THEY'RE APPLAUDING MY QUESTION NOW.

WELL, IN SOME WAYS, OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY WAS ALMOST A VICTIM

BECAUSE HE WAS SO TRANSFORMATIVE FOR SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND

MANY MILLENNIALS CAST THEIR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL VOTE FOR HIM.

AND SO IT SET THIS STANDARD OF PEOPLE NOT FEELING LIKE THEY

REALLY WANTED TO VOTE FOR SOMEBODY WHO THEY DIDN'T TRULY

AND OBAMA MAYBE INADVERTENTLY MADE VOTING INTO SOMETHING THAT

AND THAT'S WHY IT'S REALLY HARD FOR MANY YOUNG PEOPLE TO KIND OF

GET THEMSELVES EXCITED ABOUT VOTING FOR SOMEONE THEY DON'T

>> Stephen: ANOTHER SO THAT BRINGS ME TO, SAY, OUR DEBATE

LAST NIGHT, OR FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, BERNIE.

YOUNG PEOPLE, MILLENNIALS, OVERWHELMINGLY, LIKE, 60%, FOR

IF YOU LOOK AT THE EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED THEIR LIVES-- AND,

AGAIN, ONE OF THE THINGS I FOUND IN REPORTING THIS BOOK IS THAT

THERE'S THIS MYTH THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS LIBERAL AND

OLD PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS CONSERVATIVE, AND IT'S JUST NOT

IN FACT, PEOPLE SHAPE THEIR POLITICAL ATTITUDES IN THE

RESPONSE TO EVENTS OF EARLY ADULTHOOD, LIKE THEIR LATE TEENS

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE EVENTS THAT SHAPED MILLENNIALS' EARLY

ADULTHOOD, IT WAS CRUSHING STUDENT DEBT, THE FINANCIAL

CRISIS-- WHICH REALLY SHAPED A LOT OF THEIR ABILITY TO FIND

JOBS THAT WOULD PROVIDE THEM WITH THINGS LIKE EYE DON'T

THAT'S WHY MILLENNIALS ARE HALF AS LIKELY TO HAVE

EMPLOYER-SPONSORED HEALTH INSURANCE AS THEIR PARENTS,

WHICH MIGHT MEAN THAT THEY WERE REALLY ATTRACTED TO SOMEBODY WHO

MILLENNIALS ARE THE-- MILLENNIALS ARE ONE OF THE

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