Young Voters Wants A Revolution, Older Voters Want Normalcy

There is a massive age gap in American politics today, with younger voters favoring Bernie Sanders and his revolutionary ideas while older Democratic voters are flocking to Joe Biden and his return to “normalcy.” Both groups believe that they are right about what needs to happen, and the reason is because they have experienced different lives. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains the gap between the two age groups and which one we should be listening to right now.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

If you've been paying attention to the polls for the last year, even at this point, you've noticed one thing that has really stayed consistent. You know, we have seen front runners come and go, we have seen, oh this person looks like they're going to run away with it. Now it's this person now. This guy's ahead. Now this woman's ahead. Now who's running? There's one thing that's stayed consistent and that is that the youth voters overwhelmingly support Bernie Sanders and his policies while the older voters, ever since he announced he was running, have gravitated towards Joe Biden. And these two candidates could not be more different. The same thing with these two age groups. Voters under 35 are nothing like voters over 65. We really at this point have nothing in common with one another. And there is a reason for that. And there is a reason that each one of these groups is gravitating towards their candidate of choice.

And let's start with the group over 65 over 70, the Biden supporters. These are people who grew up at a time, have been working throughout their lives, for most of it, when the economy actually worked. When there was a strong middle class, when we had good union representation. So all they want is to go back to normal and what's Joe Biden been campaigning on? The return to normalcy. The problem is Joe Biden's not talking about normalcy with regards to a robust, middle-class, strong union representation, environmental safeguards. He's talking about normalcy in the sense of you won't have a president that says crazy things on Twitter. You know, you'll have a normal president. That's what normalcy means to Joe Biden. That's what it means to Buttigieg, who's also running on this return to normalcy. It's not about making anything better for anyone, but they're trying to frame it as such.

We're going to go back to the way things were, which is a fun way of saying, we're going to move backwards, but the older generation remembers that time, the backwards time, and it was good for them. It truly, truly was. And they do want to get back to that and you can't necessarily blame them for that. They were doing well, solid middle-class and that's what they want again. Then you take the younger generation, they've never experienced that in their life, never. They go to college, spend tens of thousands of dollars taking out loans for tens of thousands of dollars to get a degree that they only find out once they graduate, isn't able to get them a job in their field because they have no experience for one, but two, this other generation is doing so poorly because of the economy that they're not able to retire. So we have seen too many instances where these young, fresh faces want to go out there and get a job, but they can't because the older generation can't retire.

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