Like it or not Biden has to win over Sander's supporters

[Jedi Guy]

89. I don't think people here don't care about young people.

I do think that there's a definite feeling of bitterness about the way they energized Bernie's campaign, and the effect it's having overall, though. Young voters are propping up a campaign that, forgive me for saying so, seems to be built on a lot of magical thinking.

Bernie's proposals will top $50 trillion over the next 10 years, or thereabouts. When asked how he's going to pay for those proposals, he doesn't have a solid answer and reverts to "I can't account for every nickel and dime." As if billions and trillions of dollars is the sort of thing one digs from the couch. Naturally these proposals (M4A, student debt forgiveness, free university tuition, etc.) are extremely attractive to young people. The problem there is that young people, in some cases, have more passion than they do perspective.

When this campaign built on magical thinking is represented by surrogates like Nina Turner, Briahna Joy Grey, and their fellow travelers who take repeated shots at the "Democratic establishment" (and Bernie himself has done the same), of course it creates some hard feelings. Those hard feelings easily transfer to the young people who are largely driving Bernie's campaign. Without them, his campaign goes nowhere.

I don't think anyone here doesn't sympathize with young people. They've been handed a world where the cost of a decent place to live is out of control in many urban areas... but that's where you gotta be to get a job that pays well, for the most part. Then to get that job, you have to go into ruinous amounts of student debt. Oh, and by the way, climate change is going to fuck the planet up royally, so that's nice. That's always assuming, of course, that they don't get gunned down in a classroom somewhere.

I recognize these problems even though they don't all apply to me, and I recognize the urgency young people feel about them. But I'm also old enough to know that there's no magic wand that we can wave to make it all go away. And right now, Bernie for President is a hideously dangerous roll of the dice. A good chance of incremental change is better, to me, than a small chance of radical change. I'm sympathetic to young folks, but not to the point of being unrealistic about how the world works.

TL;DR This is just generational conflict magnified through the lens of politics, that's all. Older people are content with incremental change. Younger people want a revolution. Same old story, but magnified thanks to the fuckedupness of our times.