re: #29 HappyWarrior

What pisses me off honestly about is how condescending this shit is. Democratic voters, I mean actual Democratic voters not asshole lefties who want to use the Democratic Party for their own power favor Clinton overwhelmingly over him. And they just treat these voters, these voters who are loyal Democrats who vote Democratic staunchly like they’re not real Democrats or liberals. You want to know why the DNC hasn’t exactly been nice to you? Well maybe it’s because you treat their base like they’re idiots.

I’ll preface this with I’m not trying to “oldsplain” anything (I know how you hate that) but what also pisses me off is the Berner crap about how the young peeps supporting him must be wooed or they’ll never participate in politics and that if you shatter their enthusiasm (by voting for a candidate who isn’t him) you’ve lost a whole generation.

I feel their pain (not their bern, but their pain.) I, and every other old, was young once. I was in high school when JFK was assassinated, and in college when RFK and MLK were. Talk about shattered dreams. Talk about alienation and disillusionment. Oh, and Vietnam was going on—my classmates might not have had huge college debt, but they were marching off to war, whether they wanted to or not. And, remember, back then you couldn’t even vote until you were 21.

I voted in every election since I could; I’ve worked on campaigns; I’ve been active in Dem party politics. And you know what? Many an election night, I’ve been in tears. Many an election night, I’ve felt angry or depressed or hopeless. But the next day I was back in the fight.

And the only election night I’ve been truly elated and excited was in 2008 (2012 was more a sense of relief.) So to hear the young Berners whine that if Bernie doesn’t get the nomination, they’re out—that the system is rigged against them—that nobody listens to their pleas, I say, “Get in the game if you want to play.”