Sanders: I don't consider myself a Democrat

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68. If young voters don't understand by now how they were beguiled and scammed by targeted Russian

ads and some of Sanders unsubstantiated claims then there is little hope of them becoming informed voters. I will only speak for what I know happened within my own family with the millennials. All but two out of nine admit their thinking about HRC was shaped by Bernie and what they heard over the airwaves and social media sites they visited. One of the 7 belonged to the Young Republicans and two were avid BLM supporters. All of the nine had graduated from college during the Obama administration and found jobs by their 4th or 5th year out. Most had worked in part-time positions until they found good paying (not exactly what they wanted but decent pay). Health insurance taken care of by mom and dad for most and their employer.

Not one of the nine voted for HRC, not one. Are they sorry? Damn right they are!!

We (siblings and cousins who are their parents) had to work hard to get to this point with them. We failed, obviously, to help them understand our history since the 1990s. Of course there was the all the talk about the Crime Bill, the super predator flap, crime back in the 70's, the drug wars etc. And I will add here that we had no ideal how these young folks were going to vote once inside the voting booth. We thought we knew but none of us had really paid that much attention to what they were doing with their politics. We thought we had taught them what they needed to know to be good Democrats.

ALL nine are sorry that they either sat out or voted for Stein. (To this day we still aren't certain about how they actually voted, only what they told us.) One daughter of a cousin is a bitter for of Nina Turner at this point. And as far as Trump and the political scene right now, they all seem less and less interested in politics and political issues right now...sort of drop outs. All we parents have become much more active politically as a result of 2016 as well as all of our extended families.

Not doing anything here except telling what I know to be the case with our family who lives and works in Maryland, Delaware, and PA. As for those of us who live in IL, MI, CA, GA, FL, CO...we haven't had a reunion lately to know their political stories. But I bet they are similar.