Lucy Biggers

No, I know it's not.

And I was like, what?

Well, while I was still in it in the 2019s, too, and, like, the BLM stuff was coming in 2020, then it was all about, like, everything is social justice, and it's all about the global North has been oppressing the global South and Western imperialism.

And it really, like, the... I'm not trying to think of the word.

It's, like, the... They exposed themselves for what they truly were, right?

Like...

The mask came off, is what I was trying to say, is that the mask really came off, I think, and you started to realize around 2020, at least for me, I'm like, wait a minute, I thought we were like trying to recycle here and like maybe put in a few solar panels.

And now I'm having to say like down with the West and like the global North is oppressing everyone in the global South, very black and white thinking.

And I think as the years went on, like the overlaps between those ideologies like got more and more and more.

Then maybe when I entered it again in the 2015, 2016, I truly was the definition of a useful idiot.

I was just ignorant.

I was trying to do good.

I really just was a well-meaning young person who wanted to be on the right side of history, wanted to have my impact.

I felt like there was an injustice.

In this case, evil fossil fuels were taking advantage of a Native American tribe, and it was a very black and white story for me.

And then as the movement progressed,

went on, I started to see everything that we're talking about.

Yeah, I think that for my generation, the millennials, who I'm now 35 and I'm 25 at that time, you have to think about the context that we were growing up in, which was the financial crisis in 2008, which happened under Bush, the forever wars.

And so we're a very liberal generation.

And we never lived through, like, Reagan, right?