When I was a "millennial," I never expected candidates to "inspire" me

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20. Millenials inherited the worst recession since

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the Great Depression as well as a climate crisis, as well as record debt, they don't see politics on either aisle as even sustainable for their life or finances.

Easy thing for EffieBlack to say when today's younger generation may be the first to earn less then their parents in quite a while. The younger generation has been hurt, I would argue, to an even greater extent than the baby boomers. They also respond quite well to calls for war time like mobilizations against the climate crisis (that the Dems don't offer), because they are going to have to live through that crisis, and the boomers aren't. To some of these millenials, myself included, it's a matter of life or death..and.. savings or debt slavery, not lesser evil.

With the economy, I don't think most of the younger gen knows enough about economics to understand the extent to which we need much more deficit spending and government spending than we currently have, but if they did they'd be all for that, and the Dem Party politicians with anything to say on the budget recently campaigned on running a surplus!

And don't even get me started on our preparedness for further financial crises with hedge funds being the primary big-money donors to Clinton and Trump. Clinton's Wall-Street speeches calling for financial deregulation... Our next Dem nominee shouldn't just be a puppet for big money interests.