• @APassenger@lemmy.world
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        205 months ago

        I’m 50. I’ve been a Bernie supporter for I don’t know how long.

        He’s the only one consistently making sense.

        • GladiusB
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          95 months ago

          Bernie is one of those rare people that inspires the future rather than be a leader of it. He is somewhat a leader in his role, but he won’t become president. It’s just not in the cards anymore.

      • @IHawkMike@lemmy.world
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        145 months ago

        You’re not wrong. But as we get older we also tend to lose the passion and fervor we used to have to fight for what we believe in. Instead, we try to convince the younger generations that they’d be better off falling in line, when in reality we’ve just been beaten down and are tired.

        The reality is somewhere in between. As you say, it’s nuanced.

        But (and this is probably my beaten-down cynicism) the youth vote will never matter to the degree which it should. They will never actually turn up at the polls. I’ve been hopeful and let down too many times.

        • @5C5C5C@programming.dev
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          35 months ago

          The stakes for young people to vote have never been higher but I think too many of them are suffering from brain rot engineered by social media.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        65 months ago

        As I get older I get more and more radical, in part because I learn more ways our system is fucked up.