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In reply to the discussion: Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]mdbl
(4,973 posts)46. I am not a young dude but this applies to me:
from the same article cited in the OP
"Young people don't see the Sanders-Clinton race as a choice between idealism and incremental progress. The choice they see is between an honest politician, and one who is so profoundly a part of the problem that she can't even see it anymore. They've seen in the last decades that politicians who promise they can deliver change while also taking the money, mostly just end up taking the money.
And they're voting for Sanders because his idea of an entirely voter-funded electoral "revolution" that bars corporate money is, no matter what its objective chances of success, the only practical road left to break what they perceive to be an inexorable pattern of corruption. Young people aren't dreaming. They're thinking. And we should listen to them."
Thanks Matt. Well spoken.
"Young people don't see the Sanders-Clinton race as a choice between idealism and incremental progress. The choice they see is between an honest politician, and one who is so profoundly a part of the problem that she can't even see it anymore. They've seen in the last decades that politicians who promise they can deliver change while also taking the money, mostly just end up taking the money.
And they're voting for Sanders because his idea of an entirely voter-funded electoral "revolution" that bars corporate money is, no matter what its objective chances of success, the only practical road left to break what they perceive to be an inexorable pattern of corruption. Young people aren't dreaming. They're thinking. And we should listen to them."
Thanks Matt. Well spoken.
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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