The ageist narrative - I think it's backfiring.

[Jamie Mayfield]

36. If you are tired take a nap

So my first vote of my life was Hillary when she ran against Obama. I was excited and thought there was no way she could lose. Then she did. I cried, I was angry, I was enraged at all of those who had turned their backs on the Clinton family. A week later I started working on the Obama campaign. He was not the one I wanted but he was the nominated democrat and the democratic party and its ideals mean more to me than my candidate winning. Bernie supports are taking this hard but I took it hard too. I think we all do when we first get started in the political process. Bernie supports will be angry but as soon as Hillary is against Trump they will side with her. I am not too worried. Young people's larger issue is growing up in a era that congress and the government in general has done so very little. They don't have faith in the government because they have never seen the government actually working. All they know is disappointment. We were told we would have jobs if we went to college but now we just have debt. We were told that you get married and have kids in your 20s but we just have roommates. We were told that we would own houses and have money to buy things but we have a huge income gap. Bernie is just another disappointment in a long line of disappointments.

But here is the thing, the difference between success and failure is persistence. Hillary has failed over and over but look at the success she has because she just kept going. We all get tired, start to believe that it doesn't make any difference, but after we cry and take a nap, we wake up ready to keep trying because acceptance is too bitter of a pill to take. People my age will get tired, but they are young and will get over it. I watched my father rebuild his life more times than I can count. If he can still do it as an elderly man, I have faith in my generation to do it in their 20s.