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In reply to the discussion: Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi [View all]The reasons they liked Ron Paul were legitimate, but he was still the wrong person for actual solutions. He was a very impractical choice. Ultimately, young people went overwhelmingly for Obama anyway - and they were right.
It's not uncommon to like a bad candidate for the right (but incorrect) reasons. For example, the reasons Trump supporters like Trump are legitimate, but he's still a terrible choice for POTUS.
Incidentally, women that want Clinton simply because she's a woman are wrong about her, but they'd be correct about Elizabeth Warren.
In 2010 and especially 2014, the Democratic Party ran terrible candidates. Young people show up when there's someone to vote for, they don't show up to vote for the lesser of two evils. That's my generation's (Gen X) downfall, we still ended up with two terms of Bush anyway. It's just not a good way to do things and here we are trying to dig in on the same strategy using yet another scary-man republican of the moment.