Ngl I feel that Obama and Bernie are really the only major democratic figures that actually wanted to talk to the youth (one with false promises and the other with tacit growth of some labor benefits that never actually came), the rest of the dem infrastructure is geared toward the belief that their aged moderate demographic will last forever or not continually show themselves to be right wing reactionaries.
tldr the dems hate the youth because the youth want actual material change that hurts the status qou
There’s an assumption among dem strategists that “the left” is locked in to voting Dem and so they don’t need to bother catering to them. After all, they’re politically aware enough that they’re going to vote, and where else are they going to go? I would generally assume they count “the youth” as part of that bloc that they don’t need to put any effort into getting onside.
Ngl I feel that Obama and Bernie are really the only major democratic figures that actually wanted to talk to the youth (one with false promises and the other with tacit growth of some labor benefits that never actually came), the rest of the dem infrastructure is geared toward the belief that their aged moderate demographic will last forever or not continually show themselves to be right wing reactionaries.
tldr the dems hate the youth because the youth want actual material change that hurts the status qou
There’s an assumption among dem strategists that “the left” is locked in to voting Dem and so they don’t need to bother catering to them. After all, they’re politically aware enough that they’re going to vote, and where else are they going to go? I would generally assume they count “the youth” as part of that bloc that they don’t need to put any effort into getting onside.
The youth shall become socialists