2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders targeted young people with promises of college debt forgiveness and free college [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)And there was a lot more to Bernie's platform. A LOT more. Not just empty slogans and "more of the same".
Your assumption is that young people are stupid. And that Bernie was making false promises.
You know, even if Bernie had never run, those young people would not have crossed the street for Hillary. They know that war and fracking and the TPP and crushing college debt, among other things Hillary proudly stands for, are killing them. They won't show up or vote for that. They do their due diligence, they don't just "vote for the "D" or because WOMAN or because "it's her turn". Or all the other stupid shit that Hillary's campaign rolled out with - no issues, just silly meaningless slogans like "I want to be your champion". Against what? The thing she stands for? Increased H-1B visas, for instance?
They know what Bill's NAFTA and deregulation of Wall Street did. And Bill is, otherwise, kind of a joke. Not able to control himself, in the damned White House!
Seriously.
Is this the meme of the day?