2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Susan Sarandon has a great locale for your next workers' council meeting. [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)ignore the simple fact that our generation is not made up of high school kids and freshman and sophomores in college. They might be rallying and partying up a storm at various locations, but those 8 million votes she's getting is coming from our generation as well. Those of us out in the workforce, in professional school, residencies, who are parents and who have them, and who are not naive or foolish enough to buy into the Bernie hype.
When you lump us all together, you are the one writing us off. The poster you were engaging was doing no such thing, that was all you.
Stop with this let's only listen the idiots cheering at sparrows and ignoring policy. You want to listen to us, and not write off a generation? Actually pay attention to what we're saying.
You're threatening our jobs, our livelihoods, our children's futures, our parents' retirements, the general safety of the world. Those of us who are immigrants and 2nd gen, do not want someone in charge who has no idea of foreign policy, who says dumb things about the workers our economy needs, that our schools fail to produce in sufficient numbers.
We don't buy this "free college" nonsense, because we've got loans, some of us have school still ahead of us and you're talking about cutting our training programs, our healthcare and our future jobs in healthcare. We're not stupid, we're not high, we're not drunk, we're not ignorant, and we're voting in sufficient numbers as to tell you that we're not buying these rants about "teh establishment" from an entrenched member of it.
We'd love the respect and the opportunity to discuss, but we're being called nasty names by frat-bros supporting the dude because they can't handle voting for "mom" who actually knows stuff.
The generation is not a bunch of school kids whose pre-college prep didn't teach them history, math or how to think critically, we're also college educated adults who know enough to look at actual policies, and are well aware of which ones are reality based and which are not even thought through.
You want to engage with our generation? Please pay attention to what we're actually saying. It's not just about Citizens United for us, it's about a SCOTUS that will be deciding things that affect us, like ROE which is on the docket! Like access to contraception, affordable health insurance, not slogans like "medicare for all", but totally not like any medicare that's there now, which isn't even enough to cover the needs of those on it!
Stop lumping us in with those idiots who are busy repeating right wing smears because they don't know their origin.
There is a reason that HRC is winning right now and it's because our generation is not fooled by silly old actresses (or younger ones for that matter), we like her policies and we see through Bernies, and we know very well just what the three idiots on the other side have planned and which candidate they've been terrified of for years.