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ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
1. Respectfully, I don't care for this article.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:30 PM
Apr 2016

I know far too many older Democrats who haven't given up. It's anecdotal, but my 71-year-old father is a proud Bernie Bro. He welcomes the name because it rejuvenates him. I still maintain it's a battle between the haves and and the have-nots. Some can afford to vote for the establishment. Others can not.

Samantha

(9,314 posts)
5. Yep, they have all given up like that 74 year-old maverick out leading the revolution
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 03:26 PM
Apr 2016

I am 65 years old, and I have supported Sanders since long before he announced. I used to listen to him talk and think, "Geez, I wish he would run for President." I agree with just about all the planks in in platform.

Age is just a frame of mind. I have several nephews who are still very young but Republican through and through.

Sam

Heidi

(58,237 posts)
3. !
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 02:31 PM
Apr 2016

You were the first person to welcome me to DU when I joined back in 2004, so I wanted to give your thread a kick and send you a hug!



lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
6. If they were as confident as they want us to believe, they wouldn't be desperately trying to get us
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 03:32 PM
Apr 2016

to just give up.

The Establishment is desperately pushing the meme that we should abandon hope, that resistance is futile.

But we see the weakness in the Borg.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
7. Well, my mother is 77, and a lifelong Democrat from a family of Democrats.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 04:01 PM
Apr 2016

She hasn't given up, and is aching to vote come November. For Bernie.

I'm 58, and though I'd given up last year when faced with the "inevitability" of Hillary Clinton, I'm a steadfast Bernie supporter who is excited about the revolution.

I think the people who may have given up are those who can't get any news other than from the MSM. It's all doom and gloom about Bernie and the others in the forefront of the revolution. Once they learn there's another way, they seem to become energized. Just ask the Millenials how that happens.

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