We done fucked up.

[Warpy]

102. What I've been hearing out in the real world

(and I live near the state U) is that most of them don't see a hell of a lot of hope or help from the Democratic Party. Fortunately, we didn't need them because we kept all our Democrats by double digit margins and our teabagger governor won by a single digit margin. I expected more people to rubberstamp her.

The way the party has consistently fucked up since liberals went out of power in 1969 is by promising people business as usual. That was probably OK for a while, but business as usual is killing people who are both young and old. The young are crippled by debt and stagnant wages and the old have been turned out of their living wage jobs with at least ten years before they can collect Social Security. We're going to have a whole generation with no retirement savings followed by the youngest generation with no hope beyond spending every spare dime servicing their debt. Forget marriage, family, and a home. They can't afford any of it and they know it.

Promising millenials more business as usual is promising them more poison. Oh, I don't think they'll vote GOP, they're not stupid. They're just not going to be motivated to vote at all and I can't say I blame them.

Oh, some are politically active and I am grateful for that. Eventually they'll make a new core for the party and maybe they'll be able to kick the Wall Street fossils out of the way. Until then, I'm afraid apathy is taking over the majority.