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If you don’t vote in them it doesn’t matter.

If the most vocal young voters had actually shown up for Sanders, who as far as I can tell, offered pretty much everything progressives could realistically ask for, well, we’d be in a very different position.

But, elderly people outvoted the youth ans went centrist Clinton.

Edit: a word

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Plenty of older people voted (caucused in my state) for Sanders, including me. And in the general I voted for Clinton anyway. Those who didn’t are why we got trump.

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Oh absolutely, no voting block is a monolith! (And thanks for caucusing for the good guys!) It’s just, on average, the older voters stood by Clinton in the primaries and as they show up in the greatest numbers, she won.

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If you do vote in them it may not matter.

The party pulled plenty of shenanigans to stop Sanders from getting the nomination. The US has overthrown governments for less. They aren’t accountable processes.

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And at the end of the day, young progressive voters didn’t show up.

Before whining that everything is rigged, maybe show up in the numbers required to win?

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Do you acknowledge that the primary processes are not legally required to be fair? Yes or no.

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