Bernie Sanders only candidate to take on issues important to millennials
By Alex Steed, Special to the BDN
Posted May 22, 2015, at 7:13 a.m.
Like most people who don’t make their living off the fruit of the electoral politics tree, I find the entire political process suffocating and sad. I am tasked, however, with demystifying the so-called millennial perspective, part of which entails an honest assessment of those contending for the 2016 presidential nomination, particularly since, as a monolithic bloc, the outcome of that race could ultimately be decided by us.
The major issues being discussed pertain to when email accounts might be liberated and whether or not some candidates are even serious about running. Some weeks there are new candidates announcing runs or — in a nearly Orwellian phenomenon — announcing their intention to announce a run soon.
It is early in the game when, to pander to more raving elements of respective parties, even institutional candidates of the right are pretending to be unhinged. For example, this week, before advocating for policing thought by way of drone attacks, Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham made a joke about kissing cousins. Again, this the season of appealing to the base.
The only one of the so-called major party contenders speaking to issues uniformly applicable to millennials across the bloc is, ironically considering he is just shy of 200 years old, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Bernie is a super guy — I worked in Vermont politics back in 2006 and observed that he always had a swarm of young people working for him, jazzed simply by his existence, energy and honest approach to policy.
https://bangordailynews.com/2015/05/22/opinion/contributors/bernie-sanders-only-candidate-to-take-on-issues-important-to-millennials/
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