Why Democrats Have a Problem with Young Voters

[Saving Hawaii]

48. The Democrats really need to get some voices on a national platform to steal these issues.

Wrong Paul gets a huge amount of credibility among young Democrats simply because he's willing to say what the Democrats aren't. The Republican Party is on the wrong side of both of these issues and few of my peers who will rah-rah Wrong Paul have any idea how batshit crazy he is.

Maybe it's just that I live in NorCal, but marijuana legalization is hugely popular up here (except for the growers who mostly oppose it). And it's amazing all the different walks of life that support it. I remember sitting in a room at a medical clinic (an orthopedic surgeon) and hearing him through the thins walls speaking to somebody else (an assistant?) about smoking pot. I've been around cops who are fully supportive of it. Just the other day I was speaking with one who said all you need is a 215 card and then it's legal. He segued into a story about a cousin who had cancelled his 215 card because he was worried that it put him on a government registry. He chirped that if somebody is that paranoid, maybe they should stop smoking the green stuff.

I realize that this may be an issue we simply can't play well on a national level, but I know that in California we've been hammering the Republicans on this for some time. It's a great 'culture war' issue for us. And the Democratic Party doesn't need to go on record as being a crusader for marijuana legalization, but it'd do their brand a lot of credibility if they at least had some high-profile voices talking about it.

Barack Obama ran with "I smoked pot. And I inhaled. That was the point." Recently federal agents have been busting local dispensaries around where I live and federal attorneys have been blackmailing numerous local cities into banning dispensaries. Threats on the level of city officials facing criminal charges if they allowed dispensaries.

Somebody important needs to be saying this is wrong and Obama really needs to get his estate under control.