2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSnopes weighed in to debunk the #BasementDwellers meme and Sanders spoke out on it too
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clintons-basement-dwellers/.
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However, Clinton never used the phrase "basement dwellers." Rather, she expressed sympathy with young college-educated voters who had little choice but to remain at home due to being unable to find self-supporting jobs in the current market and had grown cynical of a system they felt had failed them:
Some are new to politics completely. Theyre children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents basement. They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they dont see much of a future. 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 dont 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 youre feeling like youre consigned to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that doesnt pay a lot, and doesnt 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 can not to be, you know, a wet blanket on idealism. We want people to be idealistic. We want them to set big goals. But to take what we can achieve now and try to present them as bigger goals.
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lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)with them over the last several years.
1--the son had a good job in finance, followed a girlfriend to SF, broke up, didn't love his work, moved home to Texas to figure out life.
18 months later moved to NY for an intensive programming course and is now happy working/living in NYC.
2--had one trans daughter living with parents for a year while re-applying for a PhD program. Got in to a Canadian University
and moved there.
had a son get out of the Marines and come home. Didn't know what to do with his life. Now in school, still living at
home.
3--had a son who was living/working in Denver. Broke up with the girlfriend (gee, is that a theme?) moved home to
Virginia to save money. 18 months later returning to Denver AND the girlfriend.
4--this is the tough one. Gay son has moved away/back several times. Has struggled with depression for years. Difficulty
keeping a job or staying in school. Has had ECT. Parents nearing retirement age. Sold the family home and
moved to a 55+ community so son can no longer live with them. End of story not apparent here in terms of
what the son will do, but he won't be able to fall back on parents the way he has in the past.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)klook
(12,166 posts)Even if you've graduated with a marketable degree and skills and have a good job, it will take you years to pay off student loans.
That means postponing buying a house or car, and not saving much (if anything) for retirement -- at a time when your hope of a reasonable Social Security system is under threat from the One Percent's servants in Congress.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)and still in their childhood bedroom. Starting salaries on Long Island DO NOT support a human being. It would barely cover boarding your dog.