Why Are Millennial Women Gravitating to Bernie Sanders?

[willing dwarf]

7. Out of touch with the reality of ordinary lives

The issues that Gloria Steinem, Madeline Albright, and Hillary Clinton confronted 50 years ago are not the issues that women confront today at all. Shoot, even the concept of gender is going out the window, so it's not like women as a group are going to line up behind their mothers and grandmothers and blindly follow their lead.

Young women today are much freer to make their way in the world, but the world is no easier for them than for their brothers or boyfriends. They are each pulling on their own oar and not expecting to get an easier ride because they are women. -- So, in the same way, they are less likely to follow a leader because of their gender.

My 23 yr old daughter and I were talking about the remarks by Madeline Albright, Gloria Steinem and others and we both felt like they were trying to lay a guilt trip on the younger generation. The effort in and of itself seemed dated and out of touch.

Times change, and the leaders are out of touch with the challenges of being a young person in the current economy.