Opinion: Why do young voters like old socialists?
By Elizabeth Bruenig Elizabeth Bruenig Opinion columnist focusing on politics, religion and morality in public life. Email Bio Follow Opinion columnist May 22 at 3:54 PM One of the marvels of 2020’s oversize slate of Democratic candidates is its relative youth. Boasting 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg and 46-year-old Beto O’Rourke, the lineup this time around makes last cycle’s hopefuls look positively ancient.
How to explain the affinity of young voters for old socialists — even with so many newer models on the market, and when so many strategists counsel against voting left or gray ? Older politicians have more opportunities to build track records, and those might be more important to the young than to voters of other ideologies and age brackets. Why? Strong left-leaning track records — shared by Sanders as well as Gravel — offer two major benefits. First, they bespeak a certain authenticity. When Sanders showed it was possible to rake in young votes with staunchly left policies, plenty of center-oriented Democrats began to show interest in things such as Medicare-for-all.
It’s also important to remember that the alienation between millennials and their parents’ generation — baby boomers, mostly — is genuine and laced with resentment. Among the young there exists a real faith that boomers squandered opportunities to care for the environment, embraced austerity politics at the expense of needier generations and created a deregulated financial system that has left millennials saddled with debt and grim prospects.
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