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Showing Original Post only (View all)A sold-out house for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in San Francisco proves... [View all]
This is an interesting article, I am going to post snippets from it.
The entire article can be found here https://www.salon.com/2018/08/02/a-sold-out-house-for-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-san-francisco-proves-shes-touched-a-national-nerve/
A sold-out house for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in San Francisco proves shes touched a national nerve
Whether or not you call her radical, her popularity shows how millennial politics are now everyones politics
Since Millennials have graduated college, these issues that Ocasio-Cortez champions student loan debt, unlivable salaries, no access to healthcarehave been at the forefront for Millennials, meaning those those born between 1981 and 1996, according to Pew Research Center. In 2016, the average income for someone who was 29 was reportedly around $35,000 in the United States. According to the Federal Reserve, the amount of student debt owed by Americans has more than tripled from 2001 to 2016, accumulating to more than $1.3 trillion. And in 2015, 24 million American between the ages of 18 to 34 reported to have lived under their parents roof.
Millennial politicians are the future of America, and Ocasio-Cortez's popularity is an indication of what they very well may look like. According to Pew Research Center, there is a wide generational divide in partisanship among Millennials. Despite the adage that people get more conservative as they age, the Millennial generation has only tilted more to the left as theyve come of age.
Many Millennials are not buying real estate, saving for retirement, getting married or having kids and it is not because they are lazy or narcissistic or cant grow up, but because the government and economy has failed them. Millennials came of age in an era of outrageous income inequality, staggering student debt, static wages, and a decaying social safety net unable to catch them. Millennial gripes have often been dismissed by older generations and entitled conservatives who mock our generation as punchlines but in truth, a quarter of Americans are millennials, while these struggles extend far beyond the bounds of those born in that aforementioned 15-year span.
Im very excited about this very young woman who was able to win in the Bronx, shes part of this wave of progressive young people, Brigid Acuña, of Albany, Calif., told Salon at the event. Shes young, shes really cool... I have a 13-year-old and Im from a bicultural family and its really inspiring, shes very articulate and very passionate.
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Whether or not you call her radical, her popularity shows how millennial politics are now everyones politics
Since Millennials have graduated college, these issues that Ocasio-Cortez champions student loan debt, unlivable salaries, no access to healthcarehave been at the forefront for Millennials, meaning those those born between 1981 and 1996, according to Pew Research Center. In 2016, the average income for someone who was 29 was reportedly around $35,000 in the United States. According to the Federal Reserve, the amount of student debt owed by Americans has more than tripled from 2001 to 2016, accumulating to more than $1.3 trillion. And in 2015, 24 million American between the ages of 18 to 34 reported to have lived under their parents roof.
Millennial politicians are the future of America, and Ocasio-Cortez's popularity is an indication of what they very well may look like. According to Pew Research Center, there is a wide generational divide in partisanship among Millennials. Despite the adage that people get more conservative as they age, the Millennial generation has only tilted more to the left as theyve come of age.
Many Millennials are not buying real estate, saving for retirement, getting married or having kids and it is not because they are lazy or narcissistic or cant grow up, but because the government and economy has failed them. Millennials came of age in an era of outrageous income inequality, staggering student debt, static wages, and a decaying social safety net unable to catch them. Millennial gripes have often been dismissed by older generations and entitled conservatives who mock our generation as punchlines but in truth, a quarter of Americans are millennials, while these struggles extend far beyond the bounds of those born in that aforementioned 15-year span.
Im very excited about this very young woman who was able to win in the Bronx, shes part of this wave of progressive young people, Brigid Acuña, of Albany, Calif., told Salon at the event. Shes young, shes really cool... I have a 13-year-old and Im from a bicultural family and its really inspiring, shes very articulate and very passionate.
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SkyDancer
Aug 2018
OP
There's nothing sexy about door-to-door canvassing and phone banking...
bearsfootball516
Aug 2018
#55
A "SAFE D" district in SF likes a candidate from a "SAFE D" district in NYC...
brooklynite
Aug 2018
#2
An admirer is quoted in the article in the OP calling her a "woman" but I guess that's ok
EffieBlack
Aug 2018
#48
And don't forget she teamed up with Bernie in KS to promote a male candidate over
Thekaspervote
Aug 2018
#79
The person has a sold out event, attended by that person's supporters, and what it proves is that
still_one
Aug 2018
#70
Not sure how a sold out house in San Francisco shows anyone has "touched a national nerve"
EffieBlack
Aug 2018
#8
It is what you can get passed that is important...however, you will never get anything passed that
JCanete
Aug 2018
#37
Of course not. But then you and I would differ on what kind of candidates should get the
JCanete
Aug 2018
#64
Yes, get them out in the primary and then get them out in the GE, but clearly, the primary matters.
JCanete
Aug 2018
#63
I doubt she'd have a sold-out house in Wisconsin, or Florida, or Ohio, or Pennsylvania...
VOX
Aug 2018
#14
It means that a person having a sold-old event, that is attended by that person's supporters is no
still_one
Aug 2018
#69
Ocasio-Cortez represents a breath of fresh air and I wish her continued success! K & R!
Devil Child
Aug 2018
#61
No matter what happens in the 2020 primary, that seat is not going to a Republican
oberliner
Aug 2018
#90