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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]
I was disappointed to hear that Rolling Stone had endorsed Hillary Clinton, but I also understood. In many ways, the endorsement by my boss and editor, Jann Wenner, read like the result of painful soul-searching, after this very magazine had a profound influence on a similar race, back in 1972.
Jann explains this eloquently in "Hillary Clinton for President":
(big snip)
Instead, the millions of young voters that are rejecting Hillary's campaign this year are making a carefully reasoned, even reluctant calculation about the limits of the insider politics both she and her husband have represented.
For young voters, the foundational issues of our age have been the Iraq invasion, the financial crisis, free trade, mass incarceration, domestic surveillance, police brutality, debt and income inequality, among others.
And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues.
much more
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325
Jann explains this eloquently in "Hillary Clinton for President":
(big snip)
Instead, the millions of young voters that are rejecting Hillary's campaign this year are making a carefully reasoned, even reluctant calculation about the limits of the insider politics both she and her husband have represented.
For young voters, the foundational issues of our age have been the Iraq invasion, the financial crisis, free trade, mass incarceration, domestic surveillance, police brutality, debt and income inequality, among others.
And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues.
much more
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325
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Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]
Electric Monk
Mar 2016
OP
Or it could just be that young people are naturally drawn to outsider candidates?
Blue_Tires
Mar 2016
#2
Not sure it's that young people are drawn to outsiders. My take on recent elections.
PoliticalMalcontent
Mar 2016
#9
Or it could be that they know that Hillary has gambled their future away.
Major Hogwash
Mar 2016
#13
I think young people who pay any attention at all see what is going on a lot better than
TryLogic
Mar 2016
#15
"... Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues. "
Scuba
Mar 2016
#32
In the past, when teaching, I used tell kids that doing well in class would help then out in
DhhD
Mar 2016
#40
So much in Taibbi's article is the reality of how I see it. I just can't reconcile how this
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#42