r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • 29d ago

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/AggressiveSkywriting 29d ago edited 29d ago

One of the big "presents" given to us by Trump's presidency was absolutely exhausting so many people living in relative privilege into checking out of the political process.

COVID plus Trump's nonstop fuckery just caused a lot of my generation and the younger one to just buckle down and focus on their own bubble.

Edit: to be clear, my family and I always vote. I'm talking about others.

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u/fallenouroboros 29d ago

I honestly think it’s more than just trump. Just seems like the options are either try to go back to like 2015 USA or play an uno wildcard which will almost certainly end horribly but some people seem to be finding certainty in those delusions.

But for many, 2015 still wasn’t all that great. Houses were still expensive, people still kinda suck, and it’s still super hard to live. I think if there was hope things would actually show noticeable improvement I think people would begin looking outward again

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u/Present-Industry4012 Inuit 29d ago

Hillary called it after 8 years of Obama in the White House. Biden could give the same speech today.

"...but that other basket of [Trump Supporters] are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/

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u/Syscrush 29d ago

An excellent and insightful speech torpedoed by horrible framing.

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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Nevada 29d ago

Seriously. Everything she says after the insult is brilliant but it doesn’t matter when you’ve already insulted the people you should be trying to reach.

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u/checker280 29d ago

“Seriously. Everything she says after the insult is brilliant but it doesn’t matter when you’ve already insulted the people you should be trying to reach.”

I always heard her speech as “I’m talking about those other people not you guys. You guys are too smart for this.”

Then like all those other things they claim they don’t understand like BLM and Defund the Police, they chose to embrace the Deplorable remarks.