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The Hill:
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In a forward to the book, Sanders notes that he overwhelmingly won younger voters among all demographics during his 2016 bid for president.
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"Young people are the future of our country," Sanders told Teen Vogue. "As citizens of the United States, they have a responsibility to participate in our democracy and to help create a government which works for all, rather than just the few. This book will expose them to an unusual political campaign, the excitement of politics and what being a progressive is all about."
According to Teen Vogue, the book also includes dozens of infographics about issues like income equality and money in politics that Sanders made famous during his 2016 presidential bid.
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Link: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/345479-bernie-sanders-writing-teen-guide-to-political-revolution
Senator Sanders does it again - messaging and getting people involved.
Can't wait till they put Sanders' likeness on the Energizer Bunny commercials!
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DoodAbides
(74 posts)Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)Hm means...?
Midnight Writer
(21,712 posts)We want to attract voters to a message of positive orderly change within the law, not scare them away.
The word "revolution" will cause immediate (maybe even subconscious) reaction in many.
Images of guns, mobs, clubs, bombs, and yes, rampaging leftists, etc. Ask Frank Luntz, the conservative "Word Doctor". He will be delighted with this news.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Sanders is right to imply where America is heading, but you are certainly right that comfortable people don't revolt.
Comfortable people aren't going to read the guide, however, so maybe no worries.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)......and the governor's mansions we have lost over the last few decades.
Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)This is just one more way we win elections and change the course of our country.
George II
(67,782 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)15 year old's. Sorry but I think the millennial were obnoxious enough in 2016. Those of us who have done nothing but supported the Democratic Party our entire lives are suddenly supposed to turn the reigns over to those who spend 50% of their time on X-Box and Facebook and can't spell because all they've known their entire short lives is texting. Before I left my job at the end of 2015, I worked with college grads interns, and they were self absorbed clueless children. I'm sorry but they were a bunch of whiners. Not all, but the majority. I'd overhear their conversations since we worked in cubicles so it was easy to overhear them and you'd have thought they were teens and not twenty-something college grads.
I'd set up training sessions a month in advance, bringing in other interns from various offices (because my boss thought it was a good idea and other offices would benefit from it) and a day or two before the training was to start, they'd come up with excuses for why they couldn't be there or had to leave early. One guy told me that he had to leave training early every day to pick up his child from school because his baby's mama who he lived with, didn't drive. (She didn't work either.) The elementary school where his child attended school was a few blocks from their home, but she said it was too far for the two of them to walk.
I had a young lady who broke up with her boyfriend and couldn't get out of bed for a couple of days after having spent a month telling everyone in the office all the details of her plans to move in together with her boyfriend. I had grown children of my own who were a lot more mature than today's 18-25 year old's, and I never would have tolerated any of that childish behavior and whining from my own children, but as the Team Lead, I was forced to be accommodating because of the investment we made in our personnel. However, it's been my experience that today's 18 yr old's and 20-somethings who are college graduates are nowhere near the maturity my generation was.
So if the Democratic Party wants to let Bernie turn the Party over to 15 year old's because they will be 18 in 2020, then all I can say is, heaven help us. But my generation has a strong history of showing up at the polls on election day. We aren't the reason that Hillary lost.
H2O Man
(73,506 posts)Recommended.
I'll be passing them out.
Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)Great way to spread the word...
nycbos
(6,034 posts)
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Click on the O.P. link,
and read the article.
LexVegas
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KitSileya
(4,035 posts)I guess he's more interested in writing for money.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)
boston bean
(36,218 posts)the exact opposite of what you want.. Cause that is what enough of them did in the GENERAL!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)that by the general the youth looked at Hillary as a bad person, and it cost her votes.
He was selling idealism while not telling the youth you don't always get what you want and sometimes have to compromise in politics. This is why I don't trust Bernie Sanders and I don't think he should be elevated in our party.
I am sick of pretending his run did us good, it didn't!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)He isn't even a Democrat, as he has said himself, many times. I know we're not allowed to say it here, but he's made it clear he's not a Democrat and he can't stand the Democratic Party.
