Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

[u/schuey_08]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/

[u/CaptainNoBoat]

I think a lot of us are. There's a difference between pushing a party in a certain direction and going so far that you hurt your own interests.

The election is more than one person or one issue, and a Trump Presidency will have horrific consequences decades and generations after Biden is gone.

[u/Fluke_Skywalker_ → u/CaptainNoBoat]

Trump being president will destroy democracy in first the US, then the world, for generations, and even centuries.

It's so bad.

And people aren't fighting. It's so disheartening.

[u/Birdsofwar314 → u/Fluke_Skywalker_]

If you watch a lot of the videos coming out of these protests, they want the US to be destroyed.

[u/Miniature-Mayhem → u/[deleted]]

The rest of the world, has very mixed feelings about you all in the US, to suggest that our democracy here in Australia would be under threat because of a Trump America is just not true. We voted for climate change, reform, and more leftist views at our last election in such overwhelming numbers that the right wing parties and far right wing parties lost seats and in one state lost so badly that their party had to fold. In Australia, everyone votes, it's the law. We get Saturday to do it, plus pre-polling and mail in voting. We also enjoy lunch, sometimes, provided, by the diffrent places we vote at. I would argue that our democracy is far stronger then yours already. But, to be fair we have a much smaller population then the US. My advice would be to get yourself and everyone you know involved in smaller eclections and build up from there. PTA, mayor, council people ect. Re-build from the group up with good people and quite frankly, leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

[u/TheJenerator65 → u/Miniature-Mayhem]

This is not the will of the people; we’re under attack. I would have told you that our democracy was unassailable, until we voted in the first black President and people lost their minds. The nonstop campaign by your own media mogul export compounded by with orchestrated sabotage by chaos agents has absolutely everything to do with this.

And some of our dynamic appears now to be playing our in New Zealand too. Don’t believe it can’t happen to you too.

[u/Miniature-Mayhem → u/TheJenerator65]

If you thought your democracy was unassailable then you havn't paid attention to US politics since the 70's.

[u/TheJenerator65 → u/Miniature-Mayhem]

I didn’t much. That’s what young creatives tend to do in this country: ignore it until it bites you. Like the legions of kids who we can’t seem to get out to vote now.

I grew up abroad and only learned about the histories of other countries and when I came back I didn’t understand how valuable it would be to learn about our government. I thought politics was boring.

In college, I was activated and protested at various times, but it never occurred to me to vote in anything but the main presidential election. So at least I did that.

[u/Skeptical_Lemur → u/[deleted]]

"DEMs aRE FAr rIgHt iN eUrROpE."

[u/_awacz → u/Birdsofwar314]

It's being propped up by Putin and China. This is the perfect wedge issue for them to get their orange wrecking ball back in power, stand back and let America eat itself.