I’m a children’s librarian so I’m working with some folks who are tiny but sentient and born during the Trump administration. They’re too young for Gen Z even, I don’t know what to call em besides adorable.

This is a good point. I find it inspiring, as an elder millennial, that my older brother lived through a similar period of just batshit insane Republicanism. I think my younger members of my cohort are easily discouraged 

That audience isn’t reading stuff from this website.

Always have been. The trolls here far outnumber the rational posters.

America is a vast, self-reinforcing culture of malignant lunacy.

Er, didn’t Sanders place second? That’s not chopped liver.

Incorrect. Coalitions win elections.

lol idk of people dying from body odor the way carcinogens from cigarette smoke can lead to death but girl go off

two terms that have nothing to do with this but COOL!

Oh, FFS. 

I don’t understand why people are getting upset with millennials for not voting. Is there any good reason they should have? Our entire government is a gerontocracy. We’ve seen that the Democratic establishment has no interest in courting young voters. Everything is about maintaning the status quo.

This outcome is exactly what I was afraid of - that Sanders being in the race was going to suck up so much of the progressive vote that we wouldn’t have any other viable progressive alternative. And that Sanders, being Sanders, was never going to succeed because he’s a purely factional candidate with zero interest in…

...I don’t know. Maybe by looking at his *ENTIRE* political career and realizing that’s *EXACTLY* what he has always done. He doesn’t make waves. He doesn’t rock the boat. He works to *maintain* the status quo. Every. Single. Time.

Wanna bet those dropouts are gonna score plum cabinet assignments?

Right, because Republicans are suddenly going to start working with a Democrat in the Executive all of a sudden.

“This simple reality points to the need to obliterate the politics of the past”

Yes, if you are voting in the 2020 election and vote third party, you will be giving a vote to Donald Trump.

Well, it’s either a shift back to the left with Biden, or 4 more years of a racist cheeto in a bad toupee’. Bernie is just a touch too far out there for most, and WAY too far out there for a smaller percentage. As long as the progressives go ahead and vote for whoever the Democrat is, we’ll win. We can’t afford…

so we are going to get 4 more years of the impeached orange turd because people don’t want to vote Democrat no matter what.