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darthstar5/17/2016 6:32:24 am PDT

re: #264 Belafon

Eight years ago, a candidate beat Hillary Clinton by following the very same rules she did. Heck, he followed them better than she did (remember her cries for Michigan and Florida).

What this has to do with young people voting is it doesn’t look like their enthusiasm directly translated into increased voting. Some of that is that young people don’t vote like older people do (eventually, people get old enough to realize that they need to vote even if there is broken glass), bus some of it is that enthusiasm doesn’t translate to winning. In a democracy, you don’t get extra votes just for being more enthusiastic, just like you don’t get extra votes for having more land.

And young people are great. I used to be one, and I have three young ones, one of them who will get to vote in an election this fall. And he will. He’s already gone to a number of rallies, and participated in the Iowa caucus. But there are young people, women, minorities, and even some of use middle age straight white males. And they all get to participate.

Hey, I’m all for young people voting. I just don’t think it’s fair to dismiss them as ‘bros’ when they don’t vote the way people want them to. When I was young we all voted for Reagan - we thought he was cool…god were we stupid…but we missed out on the good drugs of the 70s.

Now that I’m in my 50s, and according to a lot of people on line, a ‘Berniebro’ because I like his policies, I get to scoff at the naive nature of our youth…

As far as the primary itself goes, there are rules and strategies and whoever gets the most delegates wins. I understand and accept that. I don’t have to love the outcome - hell, I wanted Biden so my horse was never in the race (and no, he’s not a progressive. I just really like the fucker and think he would have been Obama’s third term) - I just have to hope we don’t screw the pooch and hand the general election over to a party hell bent on destroying shit just because they resent having had a black president.