i swear half the young people i meet tell me they campaigned for bernie. their souls got sucked out a little when realizing their own party was fighting him all along. like step aside for hillary then see her fail to trump. that hurt. anyway i miss the enthusiasm for politics they brought. bernie is only alone within his own party...
The problem you have is the 18-29 set show up to vote in in ridiculously low numbers compared to every other age demographic and it's been that way for at least 50 years. So it's a little much to blame the party for Bernie not advancing when really at least half that problem is people failing to show up to vote. Look at reddit. The reddit youth demographic kept going on about how they were going to 'flood the polls' and 'make sure this never happens again'.. Well that didn't happen.
Progressives are doing better now 10 years later. Probably because those 18-29 that supported Bernie but didn’t show up to vote are now 28-39 and realized you have to actually show up and vote for things to happen. Sadly it seems like it always takes so long to learn and the new batch of 18-29 will have low turnout again
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u/WilliamJamesMyers 18h ago
i swear half the young people i meet tell me they campaigned for bernie. their souls got sucked out a little when realizing their own party was fighting him all along. like step aside for hillary then see her fail to trump. that hurt. anyway i miss the enthusiasm for politics they brought. bernie is only alone within his own party...