2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Bernie said in June of this year about Black Lives Matter. Did the hecklers know? [View all]haikugal
(6,476 posts)I want to bring something up here. One of the things that we are dealing with is the fact that many young adults have never had the experience of having a genuine person with their interests at heart for a candidate for president. They, and we, have become cynical and jaded by the third way and the abuses we've all suffered.
As young people some of us had the experience of just such candidates. We also had the experience of having them assassinated. There is a huge gulf between the young and some of us older people in this experience. They know their history, we lived it. I bring this up in order to remind ourselves to be patient teachers not as another way to divide us.
I am hopeful for a candidate for the first time in decades. A genuine, caring, honest person is running for president, and he has solutions and can lead! To say I'm thrilled is an understatement.
There will be dirty tricks and filthy smears. We've all seen it before and we will not stoop to that level. We will fight clean and smart, but fight with everything we have in us to see our candidate succeed.
Remember the young have not seen this before.