The Six Political Classmates Who May End Up Designing Your Future

College is where young people go to discover themselves, usually while explaining society to everyone else.

Every campus has its political personalities: the radical, the conservative, the populist, the technocrat, the wealthy progressive and the international student carrying an entirely different political operating system.

At first, they are simply classmates arguing in seminars, correcting one another in hallways and treating lunch like a referendum on civilization.

But give them twenty years, a professional title and access to an institutional budget, and those same personalities may be shaping the policies, workplaces, technologies, elections and cultural rules everyone else has to live under.

The Six Political Classmates Who May End Up Designing Your Future is a sharp, funny and unsettling Tantrum Magazine editorial about where political identity begins, what happens when youthful certainty grows into adult authority, and how today’s campus personalities may influence tomorrow’s society.

This is not a personality quiz, a partisan sermon or another exhausted argument about which generation is ruining the country. It is a witty cultural analysis of class, ideology, ambition and the people most likely to acquire influence after graduation.

Because the most opinionated person in your seminar may not stay in the seminar.

They may eventually write the rules.

Part of Tantrum Media Magazine and our Politics Collection.

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