For once, I kind of agree with Kellyanne Conway [View all]

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The other day, Kellyanne Conway criticized the "precious snowflakes" on college campuses who are staging vigils and hiding in safe spaces with cookies and play dough since last Tuesday, and as a slightly older millennial (and a Bernie supporter in the primaries) I have to agree with her.

What bugs me is not the protests, which I think are a good thing to a point, but the crocodile tears of many of these students who didn't vote for Hillary in the first place. People like the young woman I spoke to in Pennsylvania canvassing for Hillary a few months ago, who said she understood the arguments about Trump but planned to vote for Jill Stein because it was her first vote and she wanted it to be for someone she really liked. I am hopeful that I may have convinced her, but there were so many others like her who couldn't suck it up and vote for someone who wasn't perfect and are now needing play dough to cope with the result of their inaction.

When I was in college, I was all out for Howard Dean, whom I began supporting during my senior year of high school. It was the first presidential election I was really involved in and my first presidential vote, and I took it pretty hard. But I got over it, and not only voted for Kerry but organized a trip to Ohio for a few of us to volunteer. I skipped the College Democrats party on election night so I could travel to Philadelphia to volunteer. I wasn't super excited about or inspired by Kerry but it was what I felt I had to do to try to defeat Bush, who wasn't even as much of a threat to our continued democratic existence as Trump.

Unfortunately, too many in the younger half of my generation were too precious to "settle" for a candidate who wasn't perfect. How many of the kids out there protesting now actually voted for Hillary? Even among those who did, did they spend half the energy they are spending on protests now volunteering for her? Probably not, because she wasn't revolutionary enough, didn't "inspire" them enough, yada yada. They are too young to remember 2000 and ome are even too young to remember how bad things were last time Republicans were in charge in Washington. They will soon find out, and the precious snowflakes are in for a rude awakening.