Young Democrats Flock to Bernie Sanders, Spurning Hillary Clinton’s Polish and Poise

[Purveyor]

By AMY CHOZICK and YAMICHE ALCINDORFEB. 4, 2016

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bernie Sanders is 74. He grew up playing stickball in the streets of Brooklyn and watching a black-and-white television.

Yet this child of the 1940s, who says Franklin D. Roosevelt is his favorite president, has inspired a potent political movement among young people today. College students wear shaggy white “Bernie” wigs on campus, carry iPhones with his image as their screen saver, and flock to his events by the thousands.

And armies of young voters are turning what seemed like a long-shot presidential candidacy into a surprisingly competitive campaign.

“He may seem like some old geezer who doesn’t care about stuff,” said Caroline Buddin, 24, a sales associate in Charleston, S.C. “But if you actually give him the time of day, and listen to what he has to say, he has a lot of good ideas.”

In interviews, young supporters of the Vermont senator’s presidential bid almost all offer some version of the same response when asked why they like him: He seems sincere.

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[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. I hope they understand the importance of voting, period, as opposed to voting only for Bernie

[Ron Green]

2. Precious few politicians in the past few years have bothered to

call for a new engagement in the democratic process, without it seeming like another ad campaign.

Young people aren't looking for free stuff, they're looking for community.

[cali]

3. It is a huge and and insoluble problem for her

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. democracy is better than oligarchy and young people know it

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Punkingal]

6. Poise and polish?

Yes, they can see through that easily.

[timlot]

7. Free tuition and health care!

If I was 18 or a twenty-something millennial free tuition and health care would be a powerful message to me too. But that isn't getting through a repug congress so its a futile exercise.

[Gregorian]

8. People should take note: kids don't buy hype.

They're attracted like moths to a light. Who knows what the mechanism is. We finally have a candidate with his light on.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Apparently they "value authenticity for authenticity's sake", the poor deluded rubes!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1139997

They simply don't appreciate the value of finely crafted, expensively poll-tested phoniness, like a vintage wine or a fine aged cheese.

[madokie]

10. This my friends will win us this election

This old geezer sees it as the young people see it I might add.

I'm excited. He came in and knocked her right off her perch of inevitability and did it with grace and good ideas.

I really don't think I want a person who is as Hillary is that worry with what's good for the very people preying on us and in many cases making our lives miserable.
Anyone who can't see that she stands with money aren't paying attention. We in the 99% bracket need a champion not someone who will continue the policies that got us where we are now.

I realize that there are those here who are in that upper echelon of income and I apologize to you personally for how I feel but man o man it's time we got a break. We've been carrying the load a long time now and our backs are breaking.

For instance Oklahoma republiCON governor and legislators pushed through a tax break that benefited the rich mostly a couple years ago and now they're wanting to raise the kind of taxes that will hurt those of us who are not in that upper echelon of income earners to pick up the slack. Right now we're on the road that states like Kansas paved. We can do better. In my view, the rich can still keep getting richer and I won't bitch much but this shit that gives them the whole ball of wax has got to stop. This is my country, my government too you know.

I mean, What the Fuck, over.

The old Vietnam Vets will get my last line there.