re: "if you need to be 'excited' by a candidate just to vote...you must be in a state of privilege" (Reply #3)

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Response to Otto Lidenbrock (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2019, 11:57 AM

3. re: "if you need to be 'excited' by a candidate just to vote...you must be in a state of privilege"

Or young?

Maybe it's projection on his part (i.e. assuming other young people are like he was when he was young), or maybe he's right that there are a good number of young people who were just not sufficiently motivated to vote, now, or then. Did LBJ really electrify the youth and motivate them to vote? Probably not. But luckily he won anyway. But maybe Humphrey or McGovern would have done better if the young had found them more inspiring and exciting.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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40 replies	Author	Time	Post
A Question I have for Bernie Sanders [View all]	Otto Lidenbrock	Sep 2019	OP
Shows a self-centered trait. nt	BlueMississippi	Sep 2019	#1
Yeah, because being interested in social justice and African American issues is self centered.	Hassin Bin Sober	Sep 2019	#4
There is no independent proof that he was interested in it	BlueMississippi	Sep 2019	#8
There are actual voting records that show when sanders voted	Gothmog	Sep 2019	#9
Precisely	BlueMississippi	Sep 2019	#11
Why distort Sanders civil rights record? There is plenty of proof	HeartlandProgressive	Sep 2019	#14
actually there is independent proof that he was involved in civil rights back in the early 60's	Celerity	Sep 2019	#17
when does ignorance become distortion?	HeartlandProgressive	Sep 2019	#15
That ship sailed a long time ago.	Hassin Bin Sober	Sep 2019	#22
Because no candidate in his lifetime was as awesome as him, I guess	Clash City Rocker	Sep 2019	#2
re: "if you need to be 'excited' by a candidate just to vote...you must be in a state of privilege"	thesquanderer	Sep 2019	#3
LBJ had arguably the two most iconic ads in presidential campaign history	Otto Lidenbrock	Sep 2019	#5
But did he target young voters?	thesquanderer	Sep 2019	#18
He didn't vote until he was almost 40 years old?	LisaM	Sep 2019	#6
I think the Math computes to an age of 32 n/t	Tom Rinaldo	Sep 2019	#12
Well, I looked up and he ran for mayor of Burlington in 1980	LisaM	Sep 2019	#13
My first vote was for Jimmy Carter.	Blue_true	Sep 2019	#24
Me too!	betsuni	Sep 2019	#32
I am older than you are. My first vote was to elect him.	Blue_true	Sep 2019	#35
We do not need another egoist in the presidency. Though Bernie is a strong fighter on behalf	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#7
I also would like to know the answer to this question	Gothmog	Sep 2019	#10
Do you really expect an answer from Bernie?	aidbo	Sep 2019	#16
It's a valid question and up for debate	nini	Sep 2019	#27
Voting is a marginal form of political activism...	JackFrost	Sep 2019	#19
but he didn't walk into the voting booth at all until he ran and he wanted to vote for himself	JI7	Sep 2019	#21
Probably changed his political tactics and strategies...	JackFrost	Sep 2019	#23
Members of our military are deployed all over the world to defend Amercans' right to vote...	George II	Sep 2019	#36
I think my point on voting with the two posts I made in this thread is pretty clear no ?	JackFrost	Sep 2019	#40
maybe for the same reason he did nothing to help Vermont's democratic gov get single payer	JI7	Sep 2019	#20
Exactly. Bernie said that it was essentially a Vermont issue. Can you imagine that? nt	Blue_true	Sep 2019	#26
So speaks "the most popular politician in the country"!	George II	Sep 2019	#37
Senator Sander's behavior as Governor Shumlin struggled to get Single Payer in Vermont	Blue_true	Sep 2019	#38
He says that when he saw a JFK/Nixon debate, what JFK said about the Cuban revolution	betsuni	Sep 2019	#25
He did not know that liberalism was not communism? Kennedy was hawkish on communism,	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#29
I rarely understand what Bernie means when he says things.	betsuni	Sep 2019	#30
That's because he's a visionary, ahead of us all.	emmaverybo	Sep 2019	#31
Yes, my centrist establishment Third Way corporatist status quo brains cannot deal	betsuni	Sep 2019	#33
You can send him your question at	roody	Sep 2019	#28
Truth is, I don't really care why he didn't vote back then...	TreasonousBastard	Sep 2019	#34
A lot of people, both privileged and not privileged, become disenchanted with or	aikoaiko	Sep 2019	#39

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