Vincent J. Curtis
2 Oct 2016
Hillary Clinton’s millennial supporters must be feeling
Bern’d these days after Hillary’s real feelings towards them were published
yesterday. Hillary has a second basket
of deplorables, apparently, and Bernie’s people are in it.
As Clinton
explained, “There’s just a deep desire
to believe that we can have free college, free health care, that what we’ve
done hasn’t gone far enough, and that we just need to, you know, go as far as,
you know, Scandinavia, whatever that means.
Half the people don’t know what that means, but it’s something that they
deeply feel.”
Millennials, at least those that are aware, may reasonably
conclude that when Hillary promises them “free college, free health care, we
just have to go farther down the road of Scandinavian socialism,” that she
thinks you are stupid and foolish, and she is making empty promises just to get
your vote. Hillary did not get a
reputation as a congenital liar back in 1996 for nothing.
Clinton
went on to say that many millennials backing Sanders were “children of the
Great Recession” and “living in their parents’ basement,” who “feel they got
their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what
they envisioned for themselves”
Her note of sympathy concerning living in their parents’
basement is the observation of a superior person looking down on her
inferiors. Donald Trump thinks the
economy stinks and wants to do anything to bring jobs back to America. Hillary has no thought of that. She thinks the economy created by Barack
Obama in the wake of the great recession is just dandy, and she says so on the
hustings. Hillary offers millennials no
hope out of their plight, even though she recognizes it, and she looks down on
them for being in it.
“I met with a group of young black millennials today, and
you know one of the young women said, ‘You know, none of us feel that we have
the job that we should have gotten out of college. And we don’t believe the job
market is going to give us much of a chance.’ So that is a mindset that is
really affecting their politics. And so if you’re feeling like you’re consigned
to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a
lot, and doesn’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the
idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is
pretty appealing. So I think we should all be really understanding of that and
should try to do the best we cannot to be, you know, a wet blanket on
idealism.”
Hillary is being realistic when she says that a college
education is not all it’s cracked up to be, especially if you graduated with
one of those popular victimization-studies degrees, and paid $100,000 for
it. But that is the progressivism
millennials bought into, writ large. Millennials
who want more of the same can elect Hillary.
They’ll get even more of that unsuccessful progressivism shoved down
their throats, and they still won’t have a job after four years!
Did I mention that Hillary was a congenital liar? When she said that her supporters should be
understanding of youthful foolishness and that they should try their best not
to be a wet blanket on idealism, she was looking forward to the day when she
needed the millennials’ vote this November.
She was saying, “Don’t tell the young that what they think they are
being promised is actually something attainable.” Bernie is a fool, and Hillary is not. She is a calculating liar. She is right about the free stuff being
unattainable, but she is calculating enough to let millennials think it is
something she will actually work seriously towards. They’re being played for suckers.
These remarks were recorded at a Clinton fundraiser in
February of this year. The recording was
attached to an email as an audiofile, and that email was hacked. The file was then forwarded to the Washington Free Beacon, which published
its contents yesterday. The Russians are
being blamed for the hack, of course, but that unproven accusation serves only
to distract how vulnerable Hillary’s secret emails always were for foreign
hackers. But that is another story.
It may come as a shock to Millennials to hear themselves
patronized by their erstwhile heroine.
Millennials, at least the most progressive of them, hate Trump, and
wouldn’t vote for him, ever. But they
would do themselves a favor if they stayed home on election night, and didn’t
vote. They might get a better shot at
life if they let Hillary try to get herself elected on the strength of old
people.
If Trump wins, with his
focus on the economy and better trade deals, millennials have the prospect of a
better future ahead of them. Hillary
wants to keep them where they are so they’ll keep voting for her because they’ll
believe the same nonsense the second time around.
That strategy has worked with the black community for fifty
years.
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