The Real Reason Millennials Love Bernie Sanders

[hollowdweller]

9. I feel sorry for kids nowdays.

I'm 56 and graduated college in 1983, the good life a lot of our parents had was slipping away then, esp the good union jobs.

My wife and I managed to hang 10 on the end of the social contract by being gov't employees, but by the time I retired last year they had already yanked a lot of what's good about that out of the later hires and increased the what's bad part.

People my age who were getting shortchanged should have started pulling for the kind of changes that we needed 15 or more years ago but the powers that be kept wiggling the carrot out in front saying prosperity was right around the corner, so so many fell for the tax cuts, budget cuts "those other people" were not working hard enough, instead of taking what was going on at face value.

I know so many people now in their mid to late 30's and they are sort of at the same stage my wife and I were at 24. Not because they are lazy but they are graduating with way more debt and really less economic opportunity. Really one of the things about "the Man's" idea everybody should work longer that is fucked up is then those people don't retire and make good jobs avail for the younger guys.

Younger folks have the internet so they are less likely to be mis informed by the mainstream than my generation was. Also a lot have either traveled abroad or know people in other countries so maybe they don't view a good social safety net as pie in the sky as people in the past have.

All I know is a lot of people my age and older have enjoyed some of the benefits now denied younger folks while at the same time opposing them for selfish reasons and I'm glad to see the younger generation waking up!