Originally Posted by jwb

on the other hand, the youth is used to the candidates in the general election being boring run of the mill politicians. The closest we ever had to a candidate that appealed to the youth was Obama in 08.

The real key part is somehow getting these people to vote in the primaries - which virtually nobody seems to do.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.