what's depressing is that a presidential election process, without any existing local ground work and with lower voter turnout than the previous competitive cycle, is unironically being referred to as a "revolution"
I'm pretty sure everyone's first presidential election feels like the biggest one ever because it's the first one they're paying attention to.
Some older millennials might remember 2004 which could temper expectations a little, but for most millennials their political knowledge begins in 2008, when liberal savior Barack Obama beat the evil bitch Hillary Clinton and cruised in the general election. Now he can't get stuff done, I wonder why? Must be because he's a corporate sellout. Hey look, Bernie Sanders!
I think most of Bernie's very enthused younger supporters haven't really tasted defeat yet and that's kind of a problem. It's someone who wins their first two hands in blackjack and decides to put all their chips on the table for the third. A friend of mine is a huge Bernie supporter, gets all of his political news from Young Turks and is convinced that none of the Republican candidates could beat Bernie except "maybe" Kasich. For me it's more like I don't know if he could beat any Republican except maybe Trump.
Forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of a candidate whose game plan is "boost turnout to 75%" when he hasn't even been able to do that in the primary.
