2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is going to have to speak on more issues affecting black people. [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Grown folks don't really listen to kids. We still old fashioned in that way.
The bulk of voters are between 30 and 65.
Getting 18- 28, only gets ten years, the years that they don't vote as much.
Need to get people with children. Women, we vote more.
If he can draw me, i am the archetype. And i honestly have issues with every politician on earth.
How is free college going to help me now? I'm in and paying. Cant get rid of my loans. So they get free and I get to pay? Nope. Not happnin. I pay they pay. I aint rich. Many if them are middle class and up.
Black millennias went for occupy more than the rest. Meh. Just dont care. Looked like upper middle class kids tripping bout loans we could not even QUALIFY FOR. WPP.
Free jr college makes more sense. If you dedicated you can pay those last two.
More accessible trade schools. Free. Revitalizing our communities. Pumping capital into the black owned businesses. Oh but that involves capitalism.
This is why. We are more sympatheitc with socialism but in practice capital rules us too. It is needed in this society and we need it more than most.
Interest free home loans to the poor and working class? Free childcare involves training so many more people and regulating facilities that we do not have.
His plans are too easy to pick apart. Not solid and no game plan. Conditions needs to be perfect to even give them a small shot. Serendipity.
We do not do that pie in the sky stuff. Solid game plan.