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In reply to the discussion: "They call me the Far Left"? [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Ever since I began travel work, staying in RV parks, good and bad ones, I've met youth all over the southwestern USA. They are struggling to make ends meet, living in leaky roof trailers and working their asses off for minimum wage.
I'm 60, have had health issues that has limited my retirement options to eating a lot of hot dogs and tortilla wraps.
Especially since Blue Cross kicked me off their plan just when I needed extensive surgery, just before Obamacare.
It cost me my entire life savings to save my life. My oldest brother's wife was diagnosed with cancer back then too, and experienced the same problem. They were fully "upper middle class" citizens. They live in travel trailer now, on minimal funds.
I'm with the youth again. My trailer is now 20 years old, has made me a lot of money that all went to physicians.
But I look at them, consider my youth was similar yet the deck was not so ridiculously stacked that I couldn't work my way through college. That's a pipe dream for these youth now.
And I get bashed right here on DU for mentioning that placing their "lukewarm, establishment" candidate:
Completely deflates my GOTV efforts with these youth. They want real change, they want Bernie.
I'll vote for the Dem, as I always have.
Yet with many of my posts attempting to shift the Democratic mindset leftward, I get bashed right here on D.U.