Can you fucking hear us now?

[TTUBatfan2008]

159. It goes back further than Citizens United...

2008 crash really started it, especially for younger voters. We graduated college and immediately got screwed over by a rigged economy thanks to corrupt politicians and greedy bankers. And then to spit in our face even more, people like Obama/Clinton/McCain/Pelosi/McConnell voted to give the banks a bailout despite the public being against it in huge numbers. None other than Goldman Sachs' former CEO Hank Paulson was advocating for this bailout as our Treasury Secretary under George Dubya. We would have been better off writing checks to each citizen in the workforce.

I was lucky compared to many of my peers. My parents somehow paid for my college with no loans (we were not rich when I was a kid), but I was only in the workforce 6 months when the financial nuclear bomb went off and I lost my job as a result. Landed a more stable, much better job only a few weeks later. This was extreme luck and I am very grateful for it.

But I realize millions of millions of 30 and under kids have not been so fortunate during the Great Recession. Many of them are absolutely drowning in student loan debt. What the hell did the Clintons ever do to address this? What did Obama do to address it? Kids today are not stupid and naive, we have Internet connections at our fingertips and the ability to quickly research politicians' track records.

After looking into the facts, we figured out that the system is not working for the regular people of this country. It wasn't just that George W. Bush screwed us, the Democrats screwed us too. In Obama's case, it was pretty much a betrayal after the youth vote electrified his campaign early on. Your response to anger over the bailouts under Dubya is to hire freaking Tim Geithner and Larry Summers?!!!

We have an oligarchy and the Clintons are part of it. This is not a personal attack, it is an evaluation of their economic policies that have helped the 1% over everyone else. The kids see through the two party bullshit and are furious about how our country operates. They have every right to feel that way.

Having said all of this, there is no guarantee that Sanders will stay uncorrupted. It is possible the corporations have already hijacked his campaign and people don't realize it yet, just like with Obama in 2008. Odds are he won't win anyway because he's the longest of long shots, but even if he wins I don't think people are expecting miracles out of him. I think people want him to fight for us. We'll see how it plays out.