This may just be me and my overexposure to feminism, but how exactly are you using that term, "patriarchal"? Does maleness have anything to do with it, or are you using the term in a different sense? The trick is to get us and try to vote all at once. Otherwise you have a deadlock of first movers, which is what the article is talking about. It's like the volunteer's dilemma - nobody wants to be the first to speak up. and buys into a patriarchal role of government
Millennials should be angry, and they should not pretend that politicians will or will not make things right. If they vote en masse, even if they vote for a protest candidate, they will change the political landscape of this country. We do not ask politicians to do things for us. We tell politicians to do things for us. The baby boomers largely understand that.