{"id":114568,"date":"2016-02-10T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/10\/poppunkpixieprince-c-bassmeow\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T07:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T07:48:14","slug":"poppunkpixieprince-c-bassmeow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/10\/poppunkpixieprince-c-bassmeow\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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sodomymcscurvylegs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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c-bassmeow<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s funny how Hillary Clinton will nae nae on stage, reference Beyonc\u00e9, try to court Latinos by saying she\u2019s an Abuela, reference Star Wars, and literally change her accent depending on her audience, doing anything to appeal to everyone yet an old, unfashionable, unkempt, Jewish, socialist is winning with millennials by a 2-1 (and growing) margin just by being true to himself. Hmmm<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The problem with Hillary and the people running her campaign is that they are running on the same mindset as everyone of that generation: they truly believe that millennials and younger voters\u00a0\u201conly care about memes\u201d and are uninterested in politics or making the world better. What they don\u2019t understand is that this younger generation isn\u2019t uninterested in politics or the political process, but that they see American politics for what they are: a game of broken promises, where you can barely differentiate between liberals and conservatives as this point. The Democrats and Republicans running for office are all more invested in the interests of the rich and powerful than they are of the people. This generation isn\u2019t untierested in politics, it\u2019s just tired of playing a game that is clearly rigged. The reason Bernie is wrecking every other Democratic candidate with young voters is because he\u2019s actually speaking about issues that this generation cares about, mirroring their fears and anger, and providing plans for possible solutions to problems like income inequality, the rising cost of higher education, the racism embedded in our social systems, the rising cost of living with no rise in wages anywhere on sight, etc.<\/p>\n

You can whip and nae nae all you fucking want and wish the Force to be with me, but what I really wanna know is why students are leaving universities with $30K+ of debt to a shit job market to be underpaid for their skills, or why our police departments are being given access to military grade weaponry, or why black people can\u2019t drive without being harassed by police officers, up to a point where they will sometimes end up dead. Hillary can eat me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

kill em\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

it\u2019s also important to note that the general line of thinking when it comes to young voters is that they\u2019re unimportant. i\u2019m not just being flippant: \u201cyoung people don\u2019t vote\u201d is bandied about as a sad-but-true fact within both parties, and thus any attention paid to the issues of young voters is lip service at best from the majority of all candidates, in any serious race. the fact that sanders doesn\u2019t do that is shocking to everyone, including<\/i> young people, and it is also why people dismiss his lead as (to paraphrase the washington post from an article i cannot seem to find) \u2018a false balloon of support resting on young voters who won\u2019t turn up at the polls\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

simultaneously, media outlets caution us on the trump phenomenon. while at a surface level both sanders and trump are similar candidates (anti-establishment, fringe candidates with their main base largely consisting of first-time or non-reliable voters) the biggest difference (beyond rhetoric, obviously) is that trump\u2019s main supporters are middle-aged and older, even if they are not traditional voters. thus, they are to be taken more seriously, in accordance with traditional lines of thinking and past data. but what really happened in iowa was the opposite: it was TRUMPS supporters who didn\u2019t turn up, and not bernie\u2019s. (this doesn\u2019t mean trump isn\u2019t a serious threat, it simply means iowa predictions weren\u2019t as cut and dry as some may have logically believed).\u00a0<\/p>\n

in clinton\u2019s defense, she HAS realised that sanders is a power in this race, but she doesn\u2019t know how to attract young voters, namely because no establishment democrat has ever really tried before. <\/p>\n

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on a related issue, the importance of anger and dissatisfaction in this race overall has been fascinating and reveals much more about the media coverage thus far than it does about voters themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

dozens of articles come out every week discussing the loyalty of trump\u2019s supporters, the troubles within the republican establishment, and the underlying anger of republicans or independents who are most likely to vote for trump. \u201dtrump taps into a real and genuine anger within this country that other republicans don\u2019t know how to court\u201d is an oft-agreed upon statement. boiled down, it pretty much just means there are a lot of furious bigots in this country, and that they are a vocal and loyal minority (though the size of which is constantly argued).\u00a0<\/p>\n

on the flip side, i have seen very few articles (at least by the more right-of-center, and even in some of the self-proclaimed left-of-center news outlets) about the anger and dissatisfaction that drives sander\u2019s <\/i>campaign. interestingly, it is usually simply\u00a0sander\u2019s <\/i>\u201cfrenzied, impassioned\u201d speech style that is discussed, and not why that in particular appeals to his likely voters. this brings us back to the young people conversation: even when in disagreement with those core values (i have yet to read an article that doesn\u2019t have various levels of ill-disguised dislike for trump), the media has a tendency to focus on and legitimize the anger of older, bigoted individuals than that of the disenfranchised youth. while arguably both core bases have an equal chance of voter turn-out based on past data and polling results (according, again, to those same media outlets), it is the vocal, uninformed hatred of the privileged, and not the righteous fury of the consistently oppressed, that is feared \u2013 or at the very least, counted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

poppunkpixieprince: c-bassmeow: sodomymcscurvylegs: c-bassmeow: It\u2019s funny how Hillary Clinton will nae nae on stage, reference Beyonc\u00e9, try to court Latinos by saying she\u2019s an Abuela, reference Star Wars, and literally change her accent depending on her audience, doing anything to appeal to everyone yet an old, unfashionable, unkempt, Jewish, socialist is winning with millennials by … <\/p>\n

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