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In reply to the discussion: Why Bernie Sanders will surprise the political establishment? [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i see such grandness for our dems. i do. i am excited about all this. lets keep in mind during all this, even in dem battle, 2008, clinton and kerry became parts of obama. again. inclusive. i can so see both sanders and warren doing what they love, with clinton administration.
i am also learning that clinton, is not bill. i am processing that clinton was first married to bill, so there is a responsibility to step back and support bills run. then she worked for a state, independent. we can see a lot of where she would go. but then, she became an employee of obama. so, she had a responsibility to curtail her path for the boss.
these are realities i am thinking thru now.
anyway....
sanders.
i was having an absolute blast with sanders when my 17 yr old came home. i know sanders is the one for our youth. he is the obama of 2008 for our youth.
energize. get them jazzed. the dean of 2004.
my son will be voting for the first time.
he is not a supporter of clinton cause he kinda sees her the way we have all projected her. and it is not accurate. i like accurate. especially when teaching my boys. i am going to have to suggest he curtail his preconceived notions and openmindedly start listening to her and recognizing what she has said and done in the past. we are not informed accurately, or enough, i am seeing.
so. he is getting politically informed. it is gonna be dem. not a repug to be had. (living in the panhandle of texas, that matters with a soon to be 18 yr old white boy.) he dismissed clinton. i told him about sanders probably jumping in. he says.... but he is a socialist. he wont win. i told him, he is no more than an 80's dem. that we do not know what will happen, with support. my son gets that. has studied all this.
we were talking this morning about sanders. son just found out sanders announced. he is excited sanders is in the race. i tell him, i am way ahead and already on board. plotting. (gotta let the boys know, i know). he says, but sanders is old. i say, that is what they are saying he will be perceived as, so he is a fail before start. to simply dismiss sanders run. i see him more as the cool old professor sittin around you kids, listening to you, and talking with you. how fuggin awesome to have someone that i think.... hears you.
it is ON.... for my son. now, i am going to watch today and see how that develops. cause my son is gonna take this to his school, his voting age peers, cause he is way ahead of them. he will be taking it to the teachers, that all sit around, having these discussions with the kids. (and shame on those attacking teachers that they do not encourage critical thinking. if the kid wants, the teacher is all there. even in the very republican leanings, as teachers, respectful).