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Establishment Dems and Progressives are in a game of chicken and the country is going over a cliff [1]

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Date: 2022-07-11

Everybody has heard this poll by Siena, sponsored by the NYTimes. Biden is only 33% approval. But what is really scary is over 90% ages 20-29% disapprove. Say what you want, these are the people who came out in force in 2020 and put him over the top. If the election was left to voters over 40 Trump would still be president. It was the under 40s that saved the country. Now they feel betrayed and despairing. They need solace. They need to feel like their vote meant something for them, that they mean something to the democrats. They need to feel like they were not duped. I know what the establishment Dems will say, BIF (which many under 40 did not care about — say it was a good bill until your red in the face, it did not make a dent for them). Katenji Brown, pretty good, but that was kind of a layup and the Supreme Court is still 6-3, some feel because the establishment Fave, notorious RBG, betrayed their generation by refusing to retire. What else. He got us out of Afghanistan, but many under 40 are confused, they don’t even remember going in. What were we doing there? Supported Ukraine, but all the money is going to the defense industry.

The establishment Dems are making the argument that under 40 has no choice. They have to vote or the country goes down the tube. Under 40 says, how about you put some skin on the table. It is upsetting (for whatever reason) cancelling student loans to you. Well it was upsetting to us the PPP went to the same cast of characters who always seem to make out no matter who is in office. Establishment Dems say look what will happen with abortion. Under 40 says don’t extort me. Show me some respect. I put you in office. We just keep giving in to your f#cking extortion. We are sick of it.

The establishment Dems keep thinking under 40 will have nowhere to go. Progressives keep thinking, it’s time for establishment Dems to put something meaningful on the table, no treat them like cattle trotted out every two years to meet their needs and then treat like they were worthless in between. That is why they hate the vote, vote, vote thing. Why can’t people see that? What would be so bad about pulling back 20 thousand in student loans if it gets people to vote in this most important election in our lifetimes? What would be so bad about trying to establish abortion clinics on federal lands even if it gets shot down if it brings people to the polls? What would be so bad about saying, “I am in this with you?” Are they wrong to ask this? Not say, “where are doing this but it is not because of activists because they are idiots.”

I think in the end many will come out to vote in 2022 because the under 40 are a whole lot more mature than the boomers. But speaking to my children and their friends it seems they already don’t like Biden — the Siena poll was not a fluke. They see him as comfortable in the backroom with Mitch and his buddies smoking cigars and drinking while the world burn outside. If the under 40s save the Dem establishment again without anything back except, “What can I do?” I believe their hatred of the establishment Dems will be visceral — something that will destroy the country going into 2024. But why risk it. Why play this game of chicken? Why not give the progressives some of what they want and need, not only for their lives but to not feel like cattle. And not like throwing a bone. Like you people are important and I am here for you.

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