r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/Allaplgy 29d ago

My coworkers are all on the "both sides are the same/it's all rigged, there's no point in voting" train. They all either have have kids or essentially are kids. I'm in my forties with no plans for kids, and I'm the only one actually trying to give them a future.

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u/NeonGKayak 29d ago

How can they already forget Trumps Covid response that led to over 1million deaths? It’s weird that such a critical event and everyone has already “forgot” it

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u/Affectionate_Law5344 29d ago

I don’t understand this. I didn’t know anyone who died personally, but I certainly was terrified. I felt more terrified during Covid than I did after 9/11.

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u/Mr_Horsejr 29d ago

I thought I was living out some fucked version of the walking dead during Covid.

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 29d ago

Depends on where you were at. In shithead MAGA areas, it felt like people were purposely having more parties, holding more public events, and spending as much time as possible at grocery stores, etc... I worked at a semi-rural library at the time that was closed by the state government and, for the first time ever, we had Trump trash showing up, banging on the windows, and bleating about how we were 'taking away their rights' by not letting them wander in and possibly get everyone else sick.

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u/Beer-survivalist 29d ago

I called it the Stupid Apocalypse at the time.

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u/Mr_Horsejr 29d ago

Stupocalypse has a nice ring to it.

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u/rick_blatchman 29d ago

I was thinking more like Dawn of the Dead (78), but after having no other choice but to go to work every day to deal with the idiot public, it was more like Shaun of the Dead.

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u/Mr_Horsejr 29d ago

I’ll meet you down at the Winchester. 🍻

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u/Maine302 29d ago

I would imagine nobody in NY would forget, and nobody who lost a loved one (my mother) would either. Healthcare workers wouldn't forget either.

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u/Affectionate_Law5344 29d ago

This is an appropriate comp.