71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their March unemployment benefit

Re:71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their Mar... by toomuchtodo on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:12PM (#22998346)

The suffering will continue until older cohorts age out and younger cohorts grow as a majority, supporting progressive policies, along with the passing of existing elderly incumbent politicians who aren't "on board" (neither Biden nor Pelosi support Medicare For All, but they're also 77 and 80 years old respectively).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-par... (A wider partisan and ideological gap between younger, older generations)

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Re:71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their Mar... by eli_gottlieb on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:35PM (#22998575)

I agree that there's a large partisan and ideological gap between the young and old, but people have been predicting the "aging in" of a new, more progressive electorate for about as long as I can remember. It never seems to actually happen.

eg: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/2020-republicans-doo...

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Re:71 Percent of jobless Americans did not recieve their Mar... by toomuchtodo on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:39PM (#22998618)

Shifting politics takes time, a glacial pace. Lots of progress so far (LGBTQ+ rights, marijuana legalization state by state, minimum wage increases, restoring voting rights to felons), just have to keep applying pressure. Lots of work left to be done. See you on the campaign trail.

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