by Robert Reich why Bernie is generating more enthusiasm among young voters
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'People ask me all the time why Bernie is generating more enthusiasm among young voters than any candidate in Democratic primaries since Robert F. Kennedy ran in 1968. (These young enthusiast voters aren't only white males, by the way. Exit polls show Bernie winning a majority of young women, African-Americans, Latinos and Latinas.)
Its not because of Bernies youth, charisma, charm, or good looks. Its because young people understand that:
1. Concentrated income and wealth at the top translates into political power to further rig the economic game to the advantage of the wealthy compounding both their power and their wealth.
2. This vicious cycle is growing worse, and will be irreversible unless a political revolution reclaims our democracy and economy.
3. Such a political revolution is the prerequisite for everything else reversing climate change, overcoming structural racism, rebuilding the middle class, achieving equal opportunity and upward mobility for the poor, and avoiding cataclysmic war.
4. Young people have lots to gain from winning this political revolution and lots to lose from failing to do so because they'll bear the consequences their entire lives. This isnt to say that middle-aged and older Americans care any less. Its just that younger voters have an even greater stake.'
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>Exit polls show Bernie winning a majority of young women, African-Americans, Latinos and Latinas.>>>> ?
Which polls, when and where?
elleng
(130,905 posts)Numerous polls have shown that. Look it up.
Do you think Reich is lying?
Baobab
(4,667 posts)nt