Yeah, nobody has ever been popular with us except for Bernie. Connect the fucking dots.
Not sure how old you are, but I do remember that Obama was genuinely liked during his presidency.
From my perspective- the dots connect to every generation starting out not understanding how the fuck nuance works in the real world. And I say this fully admitting that my generation did the same shit.
I’m 50. I’ve been a Bernie supporter for I don’t know how long.
He’s the only one consistently making sense.
Bernie is one of those rare people that inspires the future rather than be a leader of it. He is somewhat a leader in his role, but he won’t become president. It’s just not in the cards anymore.
You’re not wrong. But as we get older we also tend to lose the passion and fervor we used to have to fight for what we believe in. Instead, we try to convince the younger generations that they’d be better off falling in line, when in reality we’ve just been beaten down and are tired.
The reality is somewhere in between. As you say, it’s nuanced.
But (and this is probably my beaten-down cynicism) the youth vote will never matter to the degree which it should. They will never actually turn up at the polls. I’ve been hopeful and let down too many times.
The stakes for young people to vote have never been higher but I think too many of them are suffering from brain rot engineered by social media.
As I get older I get more and more radical, in part because I learn more ways our system is fucked up.
lol I’m older than you and would vote for Bernie
You know my age?
I know that with a question like that, you lack maturity.
So wait… you assume my age from a single statement, and the then have the nerve to suggest that I lack the maturity for questioning it?
I’m going to go ahead and think that you’re full of shit and block you for trolling.
That was some interesting projection for sure. I suspect that this person gets away with this at dinner.
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers have made pilgrimages to Columbia University and other campuses to offer support to demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza or to denounce them, and President Biden addressed the upheavals in remarks on Thursday.
Surveys taken in recent months show young voters are more likely to sympathize with Palestinians in the conflict, but few of them rank the Israel-Hamas war among their top issues in the 2024 election.
A student of both Muslim and Jewish descent who is active in a campus group promoting interfaith dialogue, Mr. Schwartz, 19, thought the protests at his college, which have drawn police crackdowns, were “a historic moment.” And he said he would have liked the opportunity to vote for a candidate who is “more progressive on Israel” than Mr. Biden in November.
The shift is substantially generational, most likely reflecting not only changes in the conflict itself, and a rightward turn in Israeli politics, but also a decade in which pro-Palestinian activists have worked to connect the cause to domestic movements in the United States like Black Lives Matter and campaigns to divest from Israel have gained ground on college campuses.
Clara Getty, 21, a student at the University of Virginia and a Biden supporter, said she saw parallels with Lyndon B. Johnson’s woes in the 1968 Democratic primary while facing outrage over the Vietnam War — and a cautionary tale.
“You hear from a lot of people who are just increasingly apathetic about voting for Joe Biden,” said Cameron Driggers, a 19-year-old University of Florida student and member of the youth council of the state Democratic Party.
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