2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Yes, Millennials also cost us the election. [View all]otohara
(24,135 posts)I'm not a Millennial but....My son was working (still is a bit) in the ever growing Jambase music festival scene for the past 6 years. They are the love children of their generation, the so-called most tolerant and all have been to very nice colleges including mine. He is very well known for his work and has the maximum friends and many followers on Facebook. Very very very white crowd this bunch, my son is not, he is mostly Japanese and Hispanic.
His friends whom many I was FB friends (about 60) all thought I was super cool because I worked in the record business for years then radio. (until I changed my photo to the Simpsons guy putting up his Hillary sign in his yard) then I got the silent treatment on everything
Of course they all jumped on the Sanders train even my son - they held registration drives at all events - my son projected images of Sanders during the shows...they were hooked.
Around February I deactivated my Facebook page because I was disgusted with the sheer amount of misleading, hateful memes they were passing around to each other. The snarky replies included stuff like "I wouldn't fuck her" and the usual insults ensued, liar, killery, warmonger, coronation, her turn..the lie about her work at CDF, the pic of her at Trump's wedding (god forbid she went) and the Goldwater girl meme when she was 16 was everywhere.
After the primary I figured they'd settle down and so I went back on Facebook and my son outed himself as a Hillary supporter and the backlash began...The gals stayed quiet but the guys were adamant about never voting for her. They mocked one guy who is very ill depends on Medicaid through ACA when he pleaded with them to vote - most live in Ohio they called him names. It was disgusting what some would reply and even more disgusting was that his real friends said nothing to defend him. I chimed in and was called names again.
We met Hillary in August and had my picture taken with her and posted it - I thought maybe they'd be happy for me to have met her (she was lovely) but no....that was not the case. I got the silent treatment again...My son was too intimidated to post his side of of our photo - I edited him out as he requested.
He worked a few festivals a couple months prior to the GE and people who only knew him through his work and Facebook sought him out to berate him for supporting Hillary.
On election night I posted "I feel sick" - one of the guys who gave me the silent treatment wrote "what did you expect, we wanted Bernie and you chose her" As if we were obliged to do what our kids wanted.
Anyhow - I know many didn't vote - some did but begrudgingly - Facebook went silent as if the election never took place. No discussion of what happened or what a Trump presidency would bring.
I deactivated my page and will not go back ever...the band plays here next week for my son's event. I won't be going - I have no interest in seeing any of them after they reveled themselves to be clueless, vindictive and still believing in every conspiracy theory imaginable about the primary.