Millenials will put their support behind a candidate they believe in
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They voted FOR Obama in 2008. Obama pissed on them and their efforts the second he took office and then he wonders why they stayed home in 2012 and 2014. Bernie's got them excited again and because of a 50-year history of walking the walk they know he won't make a sharp right turn as soon as he gets the White House.
These kids aren't beholden to a political party. Many have a great disdain for BOTH major parties. I register voters at every Bernie event and in California they can vote in the Democratic Primaries if they're a registered Democrat or a registered Decline to State. By a 3:1 margin they are choosing Decline to State.
So this is it. These kids don't swear blind allegiance to any political parties, but they will throw their considerable support (the Hillary camp is making a deadly mistake in dismissing them) behind a candidate if they believe in him/her. So the lesson to the Democratic Party is to start putting up BETTER CANDIDATES because the millennials are NOT going to come out to support someone who they see as representing the status quo.
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But it's a fact that the young hardly vote. 
I know....this time it's different. We will see soon enough.
do you think that's a good thing?
You think that's the only "doesn't get it" scenario?
Well, yours doesn't.
Again, you guys created the first generation in all of US history that will be worse off than its parents. You immediately turn to talking about events in the 1960s, and nothing after the mid 70s.
40 years went by after that. It was the era when your generation actually started voting and dominating the electorate. Yet you got nothing to point to in that 40 years?
Which is why every single post of yours in this thread is about you, and how much better you are than the whiny, spoiled kids.
And the fact that you think this is a good argument demonstrates you really don't get it.
But it isn't about you.
You do not get it, and you are not at all interested in understanding it. You are entirely motivated by fear. You are terrified of the Republicans. And that fear is why your generation failed when you got the reigns of power. Instead of making anything better, you sought to make things only a little worse. Over and over again, just give up a little bit, and the issue won't come up again.
But one thing ignoring us for 30 years has done is taught us patience. If you make us wait, we'll just clean up the slightly larger mess later.
It's not all about you and millenials. Get out of your poor me bubble and see how other people live like the Mexicans.
Maybe if you actually read what I wrote it would be helpful. You're the one talking about yourself and what a terrible world we handed you.
Yeah, there's plenty to point to in those 40 years if the constant stress of the previous years aren't enough which included a president being assassinated, MLK and Bobby Kennedy being assassinated.
Interest rates so high cars were unaffordable (20+%), Grenada, the Gulf war, Watergate, another president being shot, the Iran hostages, AIDS, John Lennon assassinated, Ethiopian famine, space shuttle explodes, Mt. St. Helen erupts, Exxon Valdez spill, Black Monday, hurricane Andrew, Waco, 2 week government shutdown, TWA FLight 800 explosion, etc. Need I go on?You don't think all that took a toll?
We weren't terrified, we were fucking exhausted but YOU don't get it because you don't understand jack shit.
irrational. Shame on us for not raising John Lennon from the dead and not preventing Mt. St. Helen from erupting. And sure, that's what I said - the airline explosion all by itself, without the other years of stressers was too much.
You go ahead and think your poor little generation has it tougher than any other and we'll continue to live our lives while ya'll whine. We're used to it.
Bye. Go mischaracterize everything someone else says.
Response to jeff47 (Reply #32)
Do you speak for the millennial vote now?
