I hope this doesn't sound racist, but just a question for black people, do you like Bernie Sanders spokeswoman.
The Official If Bernie Sanders DOES NOT win the nomination thread.....
You'd think Donald Trump getting elected would get people to see that, you know, voting does matter.
Oh well Bernie... hopefully he'll be able to have some policy pull with Biden in the off chance Biden makes it past Trump.
I will say that the upcoming Presidential debates (if Trump doesn't chicken out) are going to be a damn sight to behold...
You are right. Campaign co-chairperson Nina Turner.It would probably sound a little less racist if you used her name.
You would think that Trump's election would have taught fucktards on the opposing side that segregating political messages and agendas by race isn't going to help you win elections....
But... you know... here we are *stares at tweet posted above*
How cool would it be if Biden chose Sanders as his VP?
How cool would it be if Biden chose Sanders as his VP?
Don’t be blaming young people for the shit you fucked up.
Once again the party of ‘responsibility’ takes no responsibility.Suck it up Nancy.
I wonder why Bernie’s movement failed to get results with this winning platform??
So today was a weird day with me and voting locations.
Basic observation from today.
I voted in the morning, I saw zero people under 30
My neighbor needed a ride so I took her at 3PM, I saw one young person probably 20ish.
I stopped by another polling station to drop something off for a guy I know. I saw zero young people. Admittedly this was just in the parking lot.
All three visits I saw boomers.
I keep hearing about how all these young people are going to get out and vote for Bernie but I didn’t see it today.
BTW I voted Bernie
Well, they could be like a lot of other people, just waiting to vote for whoever isn’t trump.
I didn’t vote in the primary mainly because it doesn’t matter who gets the nomination, I’ll be voting for them regardless so why not let those that are passionate about their candidate pick them for everyone else?
I’m still holding on to my prediction though that this will be a record turn out and trump will lose badly. I’ll even stand by my prediction that it will be the youth vote, women, and minorities that really tip the scales against trump.
Well, they could be like a lot of other people, just waiting to vote for whoever isn’t trump.
I didn’t vote in the primary mainly because it doesn’t matter who gets the nomination, I’ll be voting for them regardless so why not let those that are passionate about their candidate pick them for everyone else?
I’m still holding on to my prediction though that this will be a record turn out and trump will lose badly. I’ll even stand by my prediction that it will be the youth vote, women, and minorities that really tip the scales against trump.
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But, as far as Bernie goes, the youth not showing up hurt him immensely. From what I understand - 13% of "young people" bothered to vote on Tuesday.
Bernie was very popular among my daughter and her friends, but out of 10 or so in her click, only my daughter and one other bothered to actually vote. And she only went because I insisted.
The reason given to me by these kids why they are disinterested is because politics and pretty much any official establishment of politics, to them is a "hurricane of fuckin' lies" and I quote. They'd rather not grace with their attention. They don't naturally understand that the roar of the storm is made up of many millions of tiny voices just like theirs, and they really don't have a concept of just how different opinions can get. None of it makes sense, and none of it seems to want to make sense, so they prefer to just do their daily good deeds and hope that's enough to make the world a better place.
All the soaring rhetoric and energy in the world fall on deaf ears until potential voters see how they fit in to the election process, and the world that election process hopes to build. In that regard, politicians consistently and uniformly fail to reach young adults who are still prioritizing their lives and pondering how abstract and ungratifying (in the short term) things like voting fits into their worldview. They just see a big mess of ugliness they'd rather not feed. Its built into the nature of the system. Many young people just don't vote as much as older people because they don't have the life experience to understand that civics is important.
How you actually translate this into increased participation, I don't know. I've voted in every general election that I've been aware of since I was 18, but didn't start voting in primaries until I got to about 30, as I rarely had (or have now) any particular affinity for either party, nor did I want to end up on their lists. Young people tend to be apathetic about politics and no matter how much talk of "revolution" happens I just think not enough are that motivated or true enough believers to vote. Most people young and old don't consume political grievance and just go about their daily lives.