Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that she wasn’t sure why her Democratic presidential opponent Bernie Sanders was reaching more young voters, right before pivoting into a personal conversation with a young law school student about college debt.
At a CNN town hall in South Carolina, a young woman who said she was supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Clinton point-blank why she thought there was a generational divide between those young Democrats who supported her and those who supported Sanders.
“Well, I’m not sure, to be honest. I really don’t know,” Clinton replied. “I want you to know that whether you end up supporting me or not, I will support you. And I will support the young people of this country because that has been—that has been my life’s work.”
The young woman, who was in law school and said her mother was a Clinton supporter, said that one of her greatest concerns was student debt. Clinton then got personal as she pivoted to talking about her college debt plan.
“I borrowed money when I was in law school also,” Clinton said. “And I know that is can be a burden and so here’s what I want to do. I want you to be able to refinance your debt at much lower interest rates. It makes no sense at all that you’re paying—do you know what your interest rate is? “
The young woman, who said she was just halfway through paying off $75,000 in debt, and Clinton then engaged in a dialogue about her debt.
“You know, I want everybody to understand this,” Clinton said. “She borrowed money for the principal and to be able to pay her fees to go to law school and I would bet a good percentage of what you now owe is because of the interest.”
Clinton went on to say that students in debt like her questioner should be able to move into a contingency repayment program and recalled paying back her own student loans while working for “not much money at all” at a children’s defense fund.
Because they like the other guy’s program more.
Because we are tired of you and would like to move beyond the Bush and Clinton families running the country.
a) Because young people aren’t as stupid as she wants them to be.
b) Because young people wonder how she can have so many failures and still fall upwards
c) Because young people can see the long long list of foreign nationals, plutocrats and ne-er-do-wells that have lined up to support her
d) Because young people know who Henry Kissinger is and are disgusted by her admiration and friendship with him
e) Add your own
Because for the vast majority of their lives they’ve been bombarded with made up scandals about the Clintons.
Assuming people get into politics at the age of 16 (this should probably be higher, but that would make the case even stronger), anyone born after 1984, i.e. anyone younger than 31, has spent their politically aware lives after Bill Clinton’s presidency. The only Clinton stuff they’ve heard since then is 1 negative after another, largely promoted by the Republicans. Even if this hasn’t affected them consciously, it’s almost certainly affected them sub consciously. Anyone under the age of 35 basically developed their political consciousness post the Lewinsky years.
I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s amazing how much more of an effect Republican anti-Clinton propaganda has had on Dems over Republicans.
…well she isn’t running for president as Mrs. Claus (without any hope of ever [delivering] on the promised gifts.)for one thing.