Populism: Why can't we use it?

[wonkwest]

38. Generalizations exist for a reason

No, Millennials are not a monolith. If you don't feel that way, you don't feel that way. I'm a gay man, and there are times I'm not entirely on board with where the general LGBT community is going on various issues.

But you can look at movement, patterns, a general direction of sentiment. Millennials are, in general, way more liberal than those who came before. The social justice movement is arriving in a way it hasn't in a generation. The economic strains of student debt, housing shortages, wage stagnation, and income inequality are coming to the fore in a way that many Boomers just never had to bother about at that age.

I did actually look the numbers up, and it was 18-29. I would love to see what 30-39 came out as, especially since the upper end of Millennials are well into their 30s as I am. I'm still paying off student debt. I'm fortunate that I work in tech, have my own place, health insurance, and am generally financially secure. But my 20s absolutely sucked despite having a decent job through them. And it's getting worse.

You're kind of promoting what I'm chafing against. This idea that Millennials were "duped" as you said. Not so much. There's this idea I see floated around here and other places all the time, "Well, if you don't feel as I do, it's Russian propaganda." It's such a reductionist way to easily dismiss contrary opinions and thoughts. It demoralizes people to be condescendingly dismissed in that way.

I did find an analysis of 44 and under from the primary here:

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2016/06/07/age-and-race-democratic-primary

Sanders comfortably won there as well. Not with the same lopsided margin as 18-29, but enough to know there is a leftward shift coming for the party.