2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is losing the Democratic Primary because no one over 30 trusts him.. [View all]SheenaR
(2,052 posts)50 and over is more apt.
And here's why. Most (not all, calm down) believe in the notion that "in America we WORK to get things". And so for 35 to 40 years people work for their benefits, work to send their kids to college, work to pay for their retirement.
And they have been suckers and we will all continue to be. You should not have had to work SOLELY for those things. Those are RIGHTS of human beings in the developed world. But it's so foreign to us because what we have been force-fed that anything alternative is considered ludicrous.
Oh but it will cost a lot.... We ALREADY PAY MORE than the European nations with universal health care and tuition free college. But throw the tax word out there and everyone freaks out.
Plenty of intelligent people support the Secretary. Intelligent people who want to transform our broken system (political, social, economic) aspire for something greater.