Some commentators have gone in hard on saying "And therefore age *is the real class*, and old people as a class collectively have privilege over young people as a class" There are certainly ways in which that's true But overall, sheesh, it's not a good take
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Especially when by using the election as a direct proxy for privilege you're willing to say wealthy young people are oppressed by poor old people Or young white people are opposed by old Black people Or young men are oppressed by old women
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I can attest to this. I am fairly well off and support Sanders.
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They really need this to be true and it leads to some incredibly dodgy spin and bad political analysis.
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Waiting for someone to say it's because poor elders are ignorant. The poors and the marginalized are always ignorant in the eyes of the missionaries come to save us from our backward ways.
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It's not a class gap, simply because the billionaire class is too small to influence results. I think it's mostly a matter of who is most susceptible to the "red scare" tactics the Biden camp is using. Older people have had more time to get brainwashed with neoliberal propaganda.
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"Experience does not lead to wisdom because most of what you experience is brainwashing and propaganda" is... a take
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We who are older & capable of rational thinking (unlike MAGATs) have more experience with people promising things they can't deliver and that's what I see when I look at Bernie. A cantankerous man who won't admit his numbers don't add up. Young folks haven't been screwed enough.
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So you prefer a candidate who promises to deliver nothing at all and has built his whole career on screwing us?
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I've been wondering whether the class gap persists after controlling for age (and/or race), but I haven't been able to find any polling data with these crosstabs.
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From what I've heard it does, it's just not as strong, but it is consistent when you control for everything else (so among two 30-year-old college educated white men, the one who makes $20k a year is probably Bernie and the one who makes $80k a year is probably Biden)
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