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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, this is what Hillary REALLY thinks of the Bernie supporters.  And, these are people she is trying to win over.

[quote]Hacked audio of a conversation between Hillary Clinton and donors during a February fundraising event shows the Democrat nominee describing Bernie Sanders supporters as "children of the Great Recession" who are "living in their parents’ basement."

"There is a strain of, on the one hand, the kind of populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory kind of approach that we hear too much of from the Republican candidates," she said. "And on the other side, there’s just a deep desire to believe that we can have free college, free healthcare, 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, and half the people don’t know what that means, but it’s something that they deeply feel.”

While stressing the need to not serve as a "wet blanket on idealism," Clinton paints fans of the then-surging Vermont senator as political newbies attempting to deal with an economy that has fallen short of their expectations.
[b]"Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement," she said. "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 don’t see much of a future."
Clinton added: "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."[/b][/quote]

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-supporters-audio-leak-228997#ixzz4LpKigYeW 
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I'm not getting the same impression OP is from this statement. To me, it sounds like she totally gets it: These are kids of the great recession. They have been forced by economic circumstances to live in their parents' basement. They feel like their job prospects aren't great, which is especially galling if they had to borrow money to go to college. Of course they are unhappy and looking for change.

Is this not an accurate description of many of our young people? It sounds like Clinton understands what they are saying. On what planet is that a bad thing?[/quote]

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