Bill Clinton SLAMS Millenials!

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There is some good stuff in some of the later posts in this thread thus far, but I think I'll also point out that railing against a demographic group because they don't support you pretty much means you either don't want their votes on principal or don't need them. For the primary, Hillary doesn't need their votes to win. For the general, she probably will. But poisoning the well now isn't going to help with that. For that, Bill saying this isn't going to help.

As has been pointed out, the Democratic vote across the board falls off for midterms. As such, someone could pick pretty much any Democratic leaning demographic to harp on. But because putting the blame on racial minorities would be rightly labeled racist, folks looking for someone to blame jump to a more acceptable target. And since ageism isn't a thing most folks recognize as being a thing in practice, its ok to point at the young folks for all your electoral woes.

So don't be surprised if this kind of pointing of fingers loses Clinton (and the rest of the party) votes in the general. Hell, railing against 'those darn millenials' is really in fashion inside (and outside) the Democratic party right now. I've seen many Clinton supporters call the entire Sanders campaign racist because some of his supporters got angsty over Clinton winning AA buy such huge margins. Well, perhaps its time to turn this game around a bit and start calling out the ageism.

Or... we could all just chill and condemn racist and ageist sentiments. Because this kind of crap isn't helping the party, now or in the long term. This is how you destroy a party, pitting parts of its coalition against another.