2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm not a NEW DEMOCRAT-are you? Some history about the NEW DEMOCRATS is needed. [View all]I worked my way through college by having a union job and going to school part time, paying my own way as I went. It took a long time, but I graduated without any debt. It saddens me to work with young people now who are going to graduate so deep in debt that they will spend most of their adult lives trying to pay it off. I've explained to some of them that when I was a kid, a third of workers were represented under union contracts. Now it's less than 8%. Also I've discussed with them that, in today's dollars, in 1968 minimum wage was approaching $12/hour. But that was for teenagers working in fast food, most Americans were doing better than that. Today a large portion of workers make less than that. Most of these young people I'm talking to are listening. I know this because they're voting for Bernie Sanders. That gives me some hope.