Posted on 03/08/2020 2:19:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - They’ve watched their parents and friends struggle to pay medical bills. They’ve spent time in Spain, Australia and other countries where people don’t have the same worry. They live at home instead of the college dorm to try to cut down on what they’ll owe in loans. They question whether to have kids in an environment where the effects of climate change are getting worse by the day.
The young Bernie Sanders supporters who gathered for a Super Tuesday watch party in Michigan came with reasons both personal and ideological for wanting him to be president. But they were all asking the same question: Why can’t things be different?
“Young people are aspirational,” said Jaclyn Schess, 24, a health economics researcher at the University of Michigan. She sat on a folding chair inside the Sanders campaign’s Ann Arbor office watching returns projected on a screen from the online news network The Young Turks. “We can look at what’s happening now without being weighed down by the failures of the past and say ‘Our country deserves better. ... We can do it.’”
They don’t believe his ideas are unrealistic or unaffordable. To them, the main argument that President Donald Trump and others have used against Sanders — that he’s a “socialist” who wants to give everything away for free — isn’t at all scary and may be a point in Sanders’ favor.
AP VoteCast shows these young voters more likely than those older to be liberal ideologically. Sixty percent of voters under 30 across eight Super Tuesday states surveyed described themselves as liberal and 39% said they are “very liberal.” But they have historically turned out to vote at much lower rates than older voters, a trend that has continued this primary season.
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There is nothing aspirational about communism. It leads to tyranny, poverty, and death.
These knuckleheads remind me of the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz. “I do believe, I do believe...”
Who doesn’t love Alphabet??
He’s securing the slacker vote
No, young people are naive . . . And insecure
LOOKITMEEEEE
This is the main reason I supported and worked for George McGovern in 1972 when I was in college.
Then I got smart and realized that leftism wasn’t the answer.
We can look at what’s happening now without being weighed down by the failures of the past and say ‘Our country deserves better. ... We can do it.’”
If you ignore the failures of the past they will bury you. Failing to learn from history is unfogivably stupid.
It’s fine if these young idiots want to go all in for Bernie. It’ll make them all the more disillusioned and unlikely to vote in Nov when the Dems had the nomination to demential-suffering Joe Biden or someone like Hillary who didn’t even run in the primary.
The goal of socialism is communism - V.I. Lenin
Where? They don't know. Some of them spend any time in Venezuela? Now we're talkin'...
“They’ve spent time in Spain, Australia and other countries where people don’t have the same worry. They live at home instead of the college dorm to try to cut down on what they’ll owe in loans.”
Cry me a f**king river!!
If they’re so broke how do they get to travel all over the world? And what’s wrong with living at home and save some money?
What spoiled ingrates!
Living @ home?
pure bunkim.
The universities are responsible for much of the debt. High costs for worthless degrees.
BS !
I have or have had relatives in Israel and the UK which both have socialized medicine. All, including one who was quite poor, go to private doctors.
ML/NJ
Actually the university are just feeding off the federally guaranteed student loan program (thanks to Obama). They’ll throw money at any idiot whether or not they have even the slightest chance of repaying that loan. There are no qualification requirements. And the universities just keep increasing their tuitions... because they can.
It’s the subprime mortgage crisis all over again. And guess who’s on the hook for that?
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